Hmmm ... Ever wonder if your wife thought the same thing, to herself, when she said yes after you proposed?
Posted on 05/29/2006 10:02:56 AM PDT by calcowgirl
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is attempting a political comeback as he faces reelection this year, courting Democrats and independent voters by distancing himself from President Bush and pushing an expensive bond proposal to rebuild California's levees, schools and highways.
Schwarzenegger, one of the nation's most prominent Republicans, has criticized Bush's plan to dispatch the National Guard to the Mexican border. He has appointed Democrats to key state jobs. In recent weeks, he helped engineer a bipartisan compromise to get the $37 billion bond proposal on the November ballot, traveling the state with Democratic legislative leaders to promote it. And he has embraced other causes popular with California's Democratic voters, including an increase in the minimum wage and a cap on greenhouse gases.
Last November, Schwarzenegger's fortunes looked grim. California's voters handed him a stunning loss in a special election that would have changed several state laws and given him more political power.
That election night, Schwarzenegger vowed to change and to show voters that "I am not to the right or left, that I just see things best for California."
Since then he has courted the public-service unions that exert enormous influence on California politics and that had spent millions to try to defeat his plans. Schwarzenegger has tried to smooth relations with the California Nurses Association, whose demonstrators dogged him at public appearances last year, by dropping his quest to overturn state nurse-patient ratios.
Buoyed by an additional $5 billion in tax revenue, he has pledged to increase education spending by billions of dollars, hoping to patch strained ties with the California Teachers Association. And he has put off a significant overhaul of California's troubled prison system, leading the California Correctional Peace Officers Association to delay plans to open a $10 million war chest for attack ads against him.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Hmmm ... Ever wonder if your wife thought the same thing, to herself, when she said yes after you proposed?
Since Arnold is going to win the nomination anyway, I'm voting for Newman in the primary.
Had you guys not went ahead with that stupid recall campaign, Davis would have crashed and burned and a genuine conservative would have risen from the ashes and implemented real reforms.
The state needs long-term, fiscally and socially conservative solutions instead of the band-aids the Governator has frequently used.
Uh, FairOpinion is a woman...
Arnold put the very conservative special election propositions on the ballot, taking on the Dems and the unions, trying to control spending, and what did conservatives do? Stayed home, or even voted WITH the Dems, against Arnold's propositions. And now they are running around blaming Arnold.
"Had you guys not went ahead with that stupid recall campaign, Davis would have crashed and burned and a genuine conservative would have risen from the ashes and implemented real reforms. "
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Sure, and if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
ROFL! That's a keeper! lol.
Just put your wet finger in the air & move accordingly, but Arnie, don't call yourself a conservative.
There you go again, trying to have a discussion about my gender. I have not disclosed it, ever, and you are presenting your guess, as if it was based on some actual knowledge.
You have no way of knowing and I am not disclosing it.
People should comment on my posts, not on who or what they think I might be.
Excuse me .. this isn't a new track - this is the same old track. When is he going to get around to leaning MY DIRECTION! I will only be voting for him for one reason - the dem candidates are worse .. but I'm not voting for him because I necessarily support him.
I didn't vote for him to begin with.
Ah yes, sarcasm.
Have fun living under Schwarzenegger's half-assed "reforms" while simultaneously being a tool for the Dems.
I remember a while ago when it was mentioned and I was correcting the other FReeper who thought you were a guy.
I didn't mean to offend you and from here on out I won't bring it up.
If Stalin had an R after his name he's vote for him.
Arnie either gets liberal socialists to vote for him or he's gone.
Nice summary. I'd much rather have Arnold with a sidekick like Tom McClintock then either Angelides or Westly.
The article was a two pager that mentioned many more of his Democrat (and ex-Democrat) appointees. The list is long. From article (paraphrased):
Susan Kennedy, a Democrat and abortion-rights advocate who served as chief of staff for former governor Gray Davis (D). (replaced Patricia Clarey, veteran Republican)The article does not mention those rabid democrats he has had at his side from day one, such as Bonnie Reiss and Terry Tamminen. Or Patrick Henning (labor leader). The list goes on.Linda Adams, a longtime Democratic aide, named to head the state's Environmental Protection Agency. Adams's most recently was Steve Westly's chief of staff.
Matthew Dowd recruited to run his reelection campaign. Former Democratic strategist who was instrumental in sending two Democrats from California to the Senate in 1992.
Joe Nuñez, Democrat, appointed by Schwarzenegger to the state Board of Education. Nuñez. Vocal supporter of Angelides, jokingly refers to himself as "the enemy within."
Barely more than half of Schwarzenegger's appointments to jobs, commissions and boards have been Republicans.
The majority of his appointees to the state's Air Resources Board, one of the most powerful anti-pollution bodies in the country, are Democrats.
Almost half of his judicial appointees are Democrats or independents.
We get a Lost Angeles TV station here and with it the ads for people running.... it's scary, but Arnold is the best of California's choices.
"voted WITH the Dems, against Arnold's propositions"
You're damn right I did, they were worse than doing nothing.
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