For good or bad, the guy had tremendous popularity when he first came to office. His request for support for that first bond fund displayed what he could have done.
If he had taken his message to the public and made a clear concise case for change, he would have slaughtered the Left.
Instead he decided to play the ‘girly man’ role. And here we are today, the worst administration in California history.
What an ass-hat clown.
That’s what gets me. Coming out of the gate, he tried to push too much, too fast, against a massive and determined opposition, and predictably got his fingers burnt.
Instead of learning his lesson and spending a year or two patiently using his massive popularity and megaphone to work the bully pulpit and travel the state selling his policies to the electorate he simply gave up and spent the rest of his time in office dithering with petty issues and playing the celebrity politico in his smoking tent.
He coulda been a contendah.
Then you have a $21B deficit when it costs $20B in this state to maintain illegal aliens here who know how to milk the system like prostitutes.