[NormsRevenge]

It's OK.. It's for the children unions, yaknow.

[USS Alaska]

Money is the solution to every problem. More taxes, better education, better mexican citizens. Works for me. la raza uber alles {mixed languages, kan't rite in anglissh, two much edjikashun}. s/off

[BenLurkin]

Bingo!

[martin_fierro]

[martin_fierro]

Lay off those "cigars," Arnie.

[SoCal_Republican]

This is the result of Arnold's defeat on his initiatives. Now we will see if all the big-talking conservatives in the CA legislature will stand up and prevent the 2/3rds vote needed to raise taxes. I am not very hopeful.

[calcowgirl]

Will new taxes be acceptable to this Republican Party Chairman, too?

Governor, GOP leaders meet
EMOTIONS SUBSIDE OVER HIS SELECTION OF DEMOCRAT AS AIDE
San Jose Mercury News, December 16, 2005

SACRAMENTO - After meeting Thursday with Republican Party leaders about his new Democratic chief of staff, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the party was now "one big family" committed to his re-election.

Schwarzenegger had been facing a revolt from conservatives and party activists over his hiring of Susan Kennedy, who was an aide to former Gov. Gray Davis and a onetime top Democratic Party activist.

Republican activists had said they did not trust her and would not share political strategy with her, especially in an election year.

But anger over Kennedy's hiring appears to be subsiding, largely because the governor has convinced party leaders that in hiring her he has not changed his political views.

"He addressed all the issues that were raised," said Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim, including taxes and giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, according to a source who was briefed on the meeting.

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[Troublemaker]

"No one can look at the history of California education over the last generation and not notice we went from first to worst...

Don't worry, the lottery will take care of that (obvious sarcasm).

[ErnBatavia]

As mandated, forty percent of the state's budget...PLUS whatever the lottery brings in, and it still ain't close to being close enough...

[Honestfreedom]

Yeah afterall we are so undertaxed here.

[The Old Hoosier]

Some of us predicted this during the recall, if I recall...

[joesnuffy]

Dont forget deh helt cahr foh deh illegal aliens children

Remember Arnie what your character Hauser said to Kohegan on Mars... "Gif dose people cair"

[goldstategop]

The unions will get what they want. I don't see the public disagreeing with higher taxes - after all, its for the children.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[tubebender]

There would be tons of money for education if we went back to the Three Rs and dropped all the PC mandates too numerous to list here...

[pointsal]

Arnuld has gone off his medication.

[television is just wrong]

So, he's rewarding the unions with a increase of taxes for the rest of us????

They are responsible for destroying the special election...