Correct me if I remember this wrong, but I’m pretty sure that Schwarzenegger originally supported this “term limits reform” when is was linked to “redistricting reform.”
Then he and the Dems in the legislature got into some tiff, and they stripped redistricting out of the deal. He withdrew his support for term limits reform.
Later, he was so desperate to pass his HillaryCare package, he got back on the Prop 93 bandwagon, just to try to bribe peRATa and the other Dems. Thankfully, it didn’t work, and hopefully, Prop 93’s failure will turn Nunez and peRATa into lame ducks, just like Arnold.
Sounds like you know a lot more about the history of Prop 93 than I do. I just know that it’s a stinker and Arnold is blowing it again.
I appreciate the comments.
Correct. He was criticized for jumping on the term-limit bandwagon, at all.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665715/posts
Gov. Seeks Deal That Would Ease Term Limits (would swap for redistricting redo)
ap on LA Times ^ | 7/14/06 | Peter Nicholas
SACRAMENTO — Hoping to resurrect an idea voters rejected in last year’s special election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to offer lawmakers a deal: He’ll support an easing of term limits if they’ll agree to change the way California draws voting districts.
Schwarzenegger said in an interview Thursday he does not believe term limits have improved Sacramento’s political culture. Allowing legislators to stay in office longer would be worthwhile, he said, if it induced them to put a proposal on the ballot that would strip them of the power to carve political boundaries.
The governor reasons that lawmakers may not want to change voting districts, most of which favor incumbents, but they dislike term limits even more.
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