Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity remains high among Californian voters, but he is losing support of the Democrats and independents who helped elect him governor in 2003, according to a poll released yesterday. The survey from the Public Policy Institute of California suggests 60 percent of residents favor the way the Republican governor is doing his job. However, 49 percent of Democrats disapproved of his handling of the post, and the number of independents who disapprove increased from 18 percent last year to 32 percent.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger surfaced on the political scene, the story about how he became a Republican was told often: As a new immigrant, he heard the debates between Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election, and he decided that he liked Mr. Nixon's message better. The story had a certain flaw. There were no Nixon-Humphrey debates. So now the story has been modified to be about the Nixon- Humphrey campaign generally. But there's still a problem. Gov. Schwarzenegger spoke at the Republican convention this week about being attracted to Mr. Nixon's message of `lower taxes' and `getting the government off our backs.'
Political irony was as thick as it gets on the day Gov. Jerry Brown introduced his revised state budget plan, one that incorporates many ideas generated by his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. No recent California governor has crowed more about his successes than the sometimes buffoonish Schwarzenegger. But he couldn't brag at all on the day Brown accepted many of his ideas (with no mention of Arnold, of course). Rather, as Brown released his new fiscal plan, Schwarzenegger was thoroughly occupied with trying to clean up his ultra-messy personal life. At almost the same moment Brown spoke, word emerged about the "love child" Schwarzenegger fathered in his home 10 years ago (just days after conceiving his youngest formally acknowledged child) with a household servant.
ENVIRONMENT
THE GOVERNATOR, who leaves office Monday, managed to overlook a lot of things in his tenure - balanced budgets, Republicans, the Legislature, etc. - but Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't overlook the Inland Valley. He made multiple visits here, both official and unofficial, stopping at a school in Claremont, a mall in Rancho Cucamonga and a Starbucks in Fontana, among other places.
The departed administration of ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been thoroughly discredited, its record of bending public policy to the whims of campaign donors often demonstrated and his own lack of trustworthiness amply proven. But pockets of Schwarzenegger's influence and the lack of integrity he epitomized remain in place fully eight months after his departure from office, one of the most notable at the California Air Resources Board.
The departed administration of ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been thoroughly discredited, its record of bending public policy to the whims of campaign donors often demonstrated and his own lack of trustworthiness amply proven. But pockets of Schwarzenegger's influence and the lack of integrity he epitomized remain in place fully eight months after his departure from office, one of the most notable at the California Air Resources Board.
The departed administration of ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been thoroughly discredited, its record of bending public policy to the whims of campaign donors often demonstrated and his own lack of trustworthiness amply proven. But pockets of Schwarzenegger's influence and the lack of integrity he epitomized remain in place fully eight months after his departure from office, one of the most notable at the California Air Resources Board.
FOR years, Democrats have called California Republicans the "Party of No" because almost all they ever did was say "no, no, no" to Democratic budget plans and even those of former GOP Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger. But suddenly this spring, two Republican state senators presented a seven-page list of 53 things they want done before they'll help solve the budget quandary. Instantly, Brown and the Democrats said "no, no, no" and a couple of days later, Brown loudly announced that he's finished negotiating with the GOP.
It is nice to hear," writes a reader of one of California's largest newspapers, "that Arnold Schwarzenegger is sorry for his actions and takes full responsibility. But I just don't quite understand what it means when a powerful person does wrong, tells the media that he takes full responsibility and then the public sees no accountability or punishment for those actions. That reader is not alone in an era when American politicians who resign their offices as a consequence of wrongdoing are as rare as hen's teeth. Eliot Spitzer, the onetime New York governor caught patronizing a call-girl ring, is the rare exception to this rule. But even he quickly got a high-paying gig doing a national TV talk show. Does anyone doubt he will someday seek another office? Sen. Spitzer, anyone?
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