THE BIG NO! Arnold Schwarzenegger should just resign and get back to his movie career – or he could just go back to doing what he was doing before he decided to play at politics: counting his millions, smoking his cigars and fondling his employees. It doesn’t matter what he does because his political “career” is toast:
In a sharp repudiation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Californians rejected all four of his ballot proposals Tuesday in an election that shattered his image as an agent of the popular will.
Voters turned down his plans to curb state spending, redraw California’s political map, restrain union politics and lengthen the time it takes teachers to get tenure.
The Republican governor had cast the four initiatives as central to his larger vision for restoring fiscal discipline to California and reforming its notoriously dysfunctional politics.
The failure of Proposition 76, his spending restraints, and Proposition 77, his election district overhaul, represented a particularly sharp snub of the governor by California voters. It also threw into question his strategy of threatening lawmakers with statewide votes to get around them when they block his favored proposals.
Also, Schwarzenegger’s defeat on Proposition 75 was a major victory for his rivals in organized labor. It would have required unions for public workers to get written consent from members before spending their dues money on politics.
On a Beverly Hills stage Tuesday night next to his wife, Maria Shriver, Schwarzenegger pledged “to find common ground” with his Democratic adversaries in Sacramento.
“The people of California are sick and tired of all the fighting, and they are sick and tired of all the negative TV ads,” he told supporters at the Beverly Hilton. He did not concede, saying instead that “in a couple of days the victories or the losses will be behind us.”
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| Proposition – 73 Abortion Notification – 17594 of 17657 Precincts Reporting – 99.64% |
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| Proposition – 74 Teacher Tenure – 17594 of 17657 Precincts Reporting – 99.64% |
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| Proposition – 75 Union Dues – 17594 of 17657 Precincts Reporting – 99.64% |
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| Proposition – 76 Spending Cap – 17594 of 17657 Precincts Reporting – 99.64% |
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| Proposition – 77 Redistricting – 17594 of 17657 Precincts Reporting – 99.64% |
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| Proposition – 78 Drugs-Industry – 17594 of 17657 Precincts Reporting – 99.64% |
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| Proposition – 79 Drugs-Labor – 17594 of 17657 Precincts Reporting – 99.64% |
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| Proposition – 80 Electricity Reregulation – 17594 of 17657 Precincts Reporting – 99.64% |
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