Posted on 06/13/2005 7:06:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Some estimates say balloting could cost the state as much as $80 million. Critics call it a power grab by Schwarzenegger.
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today called a statewide special election for November – a high-risk gamble that he can leverage his popular appeal to pass proposals that the Legislature has failed to address.
The Nov. 8 election would be just the fifth of its kind in California history.
“With the people’s help, there will be reform,” he announced on live television. “Our broken state government will be modernized and revitalized.”
The measures Schwarzenegger backed that have qualified for the ballot would give the governor power to unilaterally cut spending in times of a budget shortfall, impanel a trio of retired judges to redraw legislative districts in mid-decade and require teachers to work longer to earn tenure.
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Help me make sense of that - - the voters in Kalifornia elect the socialists but then reject by referendum what the socialists do? Are the voters there really that stupid?
The Dems? You betcha!
Clinton was voted for twice. You can say the same thing for the entire country.
Hey FO! How exactly are we adding new debt unless the voters approve it?
Answer: we can't! It's prohibited by the Constitution. His reasoning is hogwash.
The "free speech" in political ads should be changed to require "truth in advertising."
The "Conservatives" in the valley and especially the foothills, (like me) voted for a consistent conservative, but even the whitehouse wouldn't support Simon with money at Parsky's direction!!! They were still pist about Reardon gettin beat in the primary.
Don't be tryin to re-write CA's political history, ok??? I'm surprised Arnold is actually going ahead with this, although I see he's flinched at directly supporting the "Paycheck Protection" for public EE Unions. Where did the timid "tenure" measure pop up from?
And remember, this is the same education system that gave you the Simpson, Blake, and Jackson jurists.
Jesse Ventura did!!! I guess Arnold is just following suit... But it's fun to see someone, even a shallow celebrity trying to do something... ANYTHING against these CA Public Employee Union Thugs, for once!
Prop 226 came really close in June 1998, but it also stirred the public union political animals up to the point of getting Davis elected and owning him outright from the get-go!!!
L.A. County "thugs" have done a terrific job of managing, investing, employee-funded pension funds. No taxpayer monies contributed to their pension plan.
What? You mean the LA county "thugs" don't belong to CalPERS???
I'm not sure I followed that.
Good point.
But they didn't then turn around and vote by referendum to stop Clinton from pursuing his agend.... oh wait, yes they did! They elected a Republican House for the first time in 40 years.
A lot of good that did.
I wish I could vote in this special election!
My taxes got cut instead of raised. It was refreshing.
Get an absentee Ballot!
I'm already registered and have voted in Mississippi.
The Paycheck Protection initiative will make it impossible for organized labor to automatically fund their extortion of the state gov't. If this doesn't pass, with the labor agreements under consideration, the STATE will walk right into the pension fiasco for which the rapidly facing bankruptcy San Diego is a model.
Reapportionment gives us a fighting chance to bring the state back under the People's control rather than the inept politicians carving out nice little safe districts for one another in backroom deals. No CA legislative or Congressional office changed parties despite the air of reform among the people. It's a protection racket that needs to be broken.
Keeping school teachers from getting tenure too easily will help us take the schools back from the NEA and their big labor allies.
We must be CAREFUL since a few of the items coming on the Nov ballot are Dem-pushed.
One veto is nothing if the state could return to a Dem governor next year and explode spending, raise taxes across the board, suffocate the returning revenues, the improve business climate and other things which have helped California turn around.
Grow up! Arnold's trying to look at the SYSTEMIC ILLS, not fight brush wars.
We do have it but it's not as easily employed or as powerful a fat cutting tool as some here think.
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