Schwarzenegger Retreats on Key Campaign Vows

[Manix]

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Retreating from two central campaign promises that helped make him governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday dropped his personal "guarantee" that cities and counties would be compensated for billions in lost car-tax revenue and reversed his pledge to safeguard spending for public schools.


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget10dec10,1,5862572.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[truthisfreedom]

1. and don't forget that he's also broken his word about investigating all

of those awful, awful women who made so many outrageous claims about what was obviously just playful fun that they should have been enjoying.

/sarcasm

[Racenut20]

2. What a surprise !!!!! I am shocked

[Code_Name_D]

6. Oh no. Arnold going back on his word?

I am surprised. ( - -)<--Me with surprised look.

[placton]

3. Again, WE are to blame

that is to say the "we" idiots in CA who bought his load of boosh-wah. The same way, I predict, Amereican idiots will re-elect Bush next year. Sigh.

[truthisfreedom]

4. hey, maybe his affiliation with rush and ahh-nold will help the Democratic

cause. never know. bush may have bushwacked his bad self one too many times.

[izzie]

5. Yes we vote them in so we are to blame.

Or the ones that vote these guys in. Look where the money comes from to see who they will sell you out to.

[smirkymonkey]

7. RECALL!!

What are the chances?

[Cronus Protagonist]

23. Wear your button and it might happen

http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13


FUCK BUSH Buttons, Stickers & Magnets

[htuttle]

8. Wow, didn't even take a month

.

[ninkasi]

9. It's a mystery to me...

why anybody, anywhere believes anything Republicans promise. Look at Chimp's track record of broken promises, and out and out lies. Incredibly, some people keep voting for these reptiles, then act surprised when the promises are not kept.

[rocktivity]

10. Well, duh

It was a stupid, unrealistic idea in the first place. The problem isn't so much that Arnie was either deluded or lying, but that common sense should have dictated to the voters that less tax revenues would have to mean less spending. Well, this is what your "revenge" on Gray Davis over your raised car taxes has gotten you.




rocknation

[Say_What]

11. Gray Davis was right; being gov. is different that campaign promises

and he said it with a sly little grin while being interviewed shortly before he left office. Good luck Governor Groper.

:bounce:

[tom_paine]

12. Of course, Ahnold is a Bushevik Lying Liar

and third in line for the Throne of Amerika after Emperor Jeb.

You think any of the Imperial Subjects of the Province of Kallie-fornia will notice or care?

No.

[The White Rose]

14. You know, not everybody in "Kallie-fornia" voted for this scum.

Urban and coastal areas here are pretty solidly Democratic still, and the state will inevitably become increasingly urbanized as time goes by, which is good for us politically. Just because a bunch of us were starstruck into stupefaction is no reason to write off the whole state. I noticed. I care. And I'm pissed...

[shanti]

17. ^5!

like you, i wouldn't DARE to lift my finger and vote for the gropenator!

[The White Rose]

19. Hmm...are you being sarcastic perchance?

When I said "some of us" were stupefied I meant Californians in general rather than myself in particular. However, you are correct that I didn't vote this time; hard to do when one is a foreign national (when I become AmericanDem I'll be sure to announce it for you). :eyes:

[shanti]

27. ???

nahhhh. i thought you were a california voter who didn't vote for him, just like me. no sarcasm intended. i get very tired of hearing "YOU voted for the gropenator" on DU, when the vast majority of dem DU'ers here did NOT, and wouldn't THINK of voting for him.

[Gingersnap]

41. me too, tired of all the comments about california

Guess what, I live in CA and I didn't vote for him either. None of my friends did. When DUers from other states say things like "Kalifornia got what it deserved" it pisses me off. Geez, you'd think with Resident Dumbo representing the country we'd all be a little more sensitive to the idea that our leaders do not necessarily reflect us.

[shanti]

45. thank you!

i'm glad someone understands what i'm talking about!

[ronnykmarshall]

56. Same here!

I didn't vote for that muscle headed moron, either!

[The White Rose]

54. Fair enough. Sorry for the late reply. Working.

:-)

[tom_paine]

22. I know. But Kallie-fornia is now under Imperial Control

I am not criticizing all members of the Imperial Province of Kallie-fornia.

But it is what it is...

[SemperEadem]

32. I didn't vote for him, either

Those in this state who voted for him voted for his character in Terminator---which, interestingly seems to be in constant rotation on either SpikeTV or TNT or USA or SciFi. Those who voted him in actually have the temerity to believe that nothing catastrophic will happen to them now that they've put this movie's character in the Governor's office in Sacto.

One month after this debacle, the fires broke out in Southern California. Those folks who put out fires, heros that they are, don't work for free. They've got homes and mortgages and insurance, cars, families, doctor bills like everyone else. They incur huge overtime working fires and that money has to come from somewhere to pay them. The state of California's lending status is decimated.

Now, what happens today in the state of California? Severe cut backs in emergency services begins today--fire, police and emergency workers now have no revenue from which to draw their paychecks. That money was to be provided by the car tax increase which Arnold gave back.

Well, now if your house catches fire, better get out what you can get out because you may not get a fire engine for about 30 minutes. Your child has developmental issues and is enrolled in enhanced classes? Too bad--no more money for his/her care.. you go into respiratory distress as a result of this flu epidemic and call the ambulance.. there is going to be a wait.

And don't hold your breath waiting on him to get back that Enron money for the state. See, he's well fed, his kids and wife have a comfortable home, clothes on their backs, he is comfortable, so why should he be concerned if anyone else is not? He can afford higher electric bills, so this impact doesn't affect him negatively. Consequently, it effects no one negatively. Therefore, there is no problem in the state of California because Arnold has no problems paying his bills.

People's needs aren't going to evaporate like the fat Arnold thought existed and based his whole campaign fantasy on, only to find out Davis wasn't bluffing---there wasn't any fat to cut in the budget.

[atreides1]

57. True

Not every voter in California voted for him, unfortunately the majority of Californians did.

I would assume that you and others like you tried to get the word out,
but due to the media no one heard what you were trying to say.

But now ALL Californians have to live with it, I feel sorry for you,
but not sorry for the brain dead idiots that thought they were voting
for the guy that killed the Predator.

This may sound mean and cruel but I really do think that the next time one of Arnolds suppoters needs a cop or a fireman, they get told
"I'm sorry but we don't have the personnel to respond to your call. Due to the current budget deficit some staff had to be layed off."

The truly terrible thing is that the children will suffer the most, not only the children of those that voted for Nazi Man, but the ones
whose parents actually cared about them to not vote for the clown.

I will say a prayer for those that didn't vote for him, and for the
children whose parents failed them by putting this power hungry liar
into office. By all I have for those that did help to elect him is contempt, and that's something me and God will have to work on.

Good Luck California, you're going to need it.

[Zhade]

34. Um. I care.

I voted against the lying fuck, so please remember that not all of us were stupid enough to vote for the Nazi.

[alittlelark]

35. of course we care!!

Interestingly, the Silicon Valley (highly educated w Stanford and Berkely grads everywhere)voted 2-1 against the Gropenator. The ones that voted for him were either star-struck morons, repugs, or males age 18-30. We also have a number of regions in the state that make Mississippi look liberal.

We're screwed, but he's screwing up so badly I think the stars in people's eyes will have faded by the next election:shrug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

13. People traded in a FIXED cost (i.e. vehicle license fees) for a great

big UNKNOWN, This is going to hit MY CITY the hardest. 14,000,000 in funds....that's a lot of cops and firefighters and we won't be able to make up the revenue from the HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH!

[Emboldened Chimp]

15. At least you'll always have Mickey Mouse

[The Animator]

18. Well... that might not be accurate either...

... they very well could lose Mickey.

Just last week Roy Disney Jr. (nephew of the late great Walt Disney) resigned from the board of the company. It was done as a form of protest, in an attempt to get Micheal Eisner to step down as chairman. He hasn't like the direction in wich Eisner has led his uncle's company. He has cited Eisner's leadership as responsible for the company's current reputation of being a souless corporate monster out for the quick buck. A few days later Roy's biggest supporter on the board also resigned in protest. The remaining board members have suggested that Roy doesn't have the clout to pull this regime change off.

However, I beleive they have failed to consider the fact that it is Roy Disney Jr., not Disney Co., that holds sole copyrights to all the classic characters. Disney Co. has no legal claim to Mickey & Minnie Mouse, Donald & Daisy Duck, Goofy, Pluto, etc... If Disney Co. try and screw Roy over, he can pull all the characters out of the parks, and off all the shelves... leaving the house the Mouse built nothing but an empty shell. Honestly, I really hope it doesn't come to that.

[tinrobot]

21. Where did you hear that?

I work in animation and I never heard that Roy owned Mickey...

[Lorien]

42. Me too

ex WDFAF, never heard of such a thing.

[BrotherBuzz]

25. Supreme Court and Congress

Seems to think Walt Disney Corp. owns the copyright...although it could/will fall into public domain at some point it time.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html

http://www.jmls.edu/ripl/vol2/issue1/vicki-middle.html

[glitch]

38. they may be fighting for the copyright but do they own it?

they may've been fighting for it on behalf of the nephew, because their business depends on it. Anybody know where to look up who owns copyrights?

[indypaul]

46. Copyrights

www.copyright.gov believe can go through Library of Congress web site
also.

[BrotherBuzz]

47. Roy owns the largest share of mickey...

Mickey Mouse (or more precisely, his owner, Disney Studios ) is the one who persuaded Congress to extend copyright protection in the Sonny Bono Term Extension Act. The Act adds another 20 years to the current copyright term, making it 70 years plus the life of the author. - Marci A. Hamilton

Professor Marci A. Hamilton holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law, Yeshiva University, where she is the founding Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program. She has been a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary, the Center of Theological Inquiry, and Emory University School of Law.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20021024.html

Roy Disney is a huge share holder in Disney Studios, in fact he is the largest individual shareholder so I guess he owns the largest share of mickey. I'm inclined to believe Roy's ownership of the copyright may be nothing but a new urban myth in the making. Just my opinion.

[sendero]

28. Hmmm....

>>>Honestly, I really hope it doesn't come to that.

I do. I know, that's terrible, but frankly IMHO Eisner has killed the mystique that once was Disney.

[pinto]

36. Yes, no amount of Mickey Mouse or Michael J coverage will fix this

[callous taoboy]

16. The idiots who voted for

this horse's ass need lobotomies. I am sick of bait and switch.

[cyclezealot]

20. We need energize state legislators to oppose Gov. Groper.

As those of us interested in issues, which was a minority last October- the chickens have come home to roost. Arni has no answers.
Three campaign promises broken..1- He would not reduce school funiding.2- The repealed car tax would not hurt local government-libraties, firefighters, police.)3- He would investigate his own groper charges.
Gray Davis followed this petitioners would be out with recall petitions..Did any of us know the answer to debt is more debt.That was not a campaign pledge that he verbalized. Wish a recall was possible. Is that good for California still?
We must energize state legislators to oppose Arni.Write them. Call into question Arni's reality.. He was elected on platitudes and to raise Arni's short comings helps to inform fellow Californian's of his shallowness. Are we out there protesting before our police get laid off.? Are we out there protesting before our schools get cut further..? Write letters to the papers, questioning the specifics of Arni's programs..Let the public know some of us realize Arni is a bafoon...
Embolden our legislators to question what Arni is doing before his programs do not get a proper hearing... I feel a letter to the Speaker of the Assembly and President of the State Senate is necessary to stop Arni from snow balling this state into backwater state status.. Our public support of our schools was already one of the lowerst per capita expenditures per student before Arni..

[bushisanidiot]

24. All He Has Left To Do Is Commit Vehicular Manslaughter and he'll get his

repuke wings!!

[jeanmarc]

26. Kallie-fawn-ya, Davis lied to you and I can do that better too. (nt)

[xxqqqzme]

29. rethug SOP!

media endlessly chanting Ahnolt-moderate; ahnolt-moderate; ahnolt-moderate; ahnolt-moderate; anolt-moderate' ahnolt-moderate.....run left, govern right THE signature rethug jive-ass strategy.

[realFedUp]

30. Basically he lied

rolling back those vehicle fees just hurts
the services in cities and counties.

[pinto]

31. Gropinator or not, we've got him.

Schools, fire, police and infrastructure repair (looooong overdue here in CA) are hurting. I know there's a lot of hot topic stuff about his sexuality, but here we've got to keep our eyes on OUR fries.

[Zhade]

33. Gee, and people are suprised that Rove-backed ScwarzeNazi is a liar?

Huh. Go figure. You reap what you vote, I guess.

[Manix]

37. Well Maria, how does it feel to be married to just another

Republican liar? You should be ashamed.

[The Zanti Regent]

43. She loves it

She craves power just like Governor Asshole does

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

39. Schwarzen reneger

[gulliver]

51. Good one!

I'll see if I can put it to good use with some Republicans I know.

Thanks for the post!

[dolstein]

40. Arnold and George W. -- Two of a Kind

NT

[BadGimp]

44. I don't think many of my fellow Califafornaians care what he does

I think too many people voted this asshat in the same way they buy a puppy. And worse still I think that's exactly what they thought they were doing...opting for a designer Politician that reflects their tastes...because they could.

[pinto]

48. Yeah, it was all wooop dee do, look at what we can do...

but somebody will pay the bills. An amazingly all media election.

[indypaul]

49. Surprise, surprise

Better sheck that stain on your trousers, he really was
pissing on everyone's leg and convinced them it was raining.
Following Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief's pattern and it worked.
Time for another recall in Kall-ee-fornya and certainly a
defeat of C-H-I-C in '04.

[pinto]

50. Hi. No, no no, no more recalls in CA. That's how we got Arnold.

[opihimoimoi]

52. BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

The revenge of the Prevarinator/Groper/SOB

Only an arrogant ass hole would blatantly fuck the voters who gave him the chance to lead California.

He just dissed the very people he asked for help. TYP PUB. lost in his ego he is delusional.

The poor Cali voters who sucked for his shit now find themselves in the position to eat crow. They got had and he is laughing in their faces to boot.

To FOOL IS TO RULE

Bend over Californians, the Groper is coming near. You got what you asked for.

[farmboxer]

53. Why Am I Not Surprised?

Well, the people of Nazi Germany voted for Hitler! Of course, did the people really vote for Arnold, or was it the Republican manufactured and programmed voting machines?!

[dusty64]

55. Gee, he sure is making a mess

of things pretty quickly. I guess I'm surprised the corporate media is even reporting the truth about their annointed one. When does the recall campaign begin?

[David Zephyr]

58. Maybe Arnold Can Distract the Voters By Attacking Nevada.

I'm more mad at the voters in my state for empowering this bozo than the clown himself.

[mbperrin]

59. Nice headline. Usually when I "retreat" on "vows", people say

that I am a fu**ing liar!!!!!!