LAT: Schwarzenegger Vows More Ballot Efforts

[DeepModem Mom]

Gov. Vows More Ballot Efforts
The four measures in Tuesday's election that Schwarzenegger is stumping for are only the beginning, he says on the campaign trail.

By Peter Nicholas, Times Staff Writer


ON THE 405 FREEWAY — Slogging through Los Angeles traffic on a campaign bus to demonstrate the need for better roads, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday that the four initiatives he was promoting in Tuesday's special election were only a beginning.

Schwarzenegger told reporters that he could have put "15 more ideas" on the ballot. As it was, the governor said, he was criticized for taking on too much. Schwarzenegger suggested that he won't be satisfied even if his agenda was approved and that Californians can expect more far-reaching measures from him.

One of the initiatives Schwarzenegger is backing, Proposition 74, would require teachers to work five years, rather than two, before they are eligible for tenure. That measure is not sufficient to improve public education, he said.

"Never look at it as: This is all we need," the governor said, sitting in a big chair at the back of the bus, which was decorated with campaign posters. He added: "How do we get the power away from the teachers union and make sound decisions based on what's best for education, rather than what's best for the teachers union?"

Similarly, he said Proposition 77, which would change the way voting districts are drawn, was not enough to "clean up" California politics. "It's a help to go in the right direction," he said. "But there are still many other problems with the political system that need to be reformed."...


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-campaign3nov03,0,4239187.story?coll=la-home-local

[joefree1]

1. Vote my agenda or I give you more special elections Cali-phorn-nia

Is this some kind of threat?

[AlCzervik]

3. since day one, remember? "I will take it to the peeeeple"

my hope is that if he crashes and burns on the 8th then he will be officially all done.

[davidinalameda]

11. and waste another $40 million that could have gone to schools

hospitals, etc

[endarkenment]

2. Adios Arnie

See ya. Don't let the door hit you in the back on the way out.

[olddad56]

7. It is amazing to me how naive some people are.....

Arnold isn't going anywhere. Democracy has been dead for a while now. The corporations regulate the government, not the other way around. The elections are fraudulent, and Arnold will be around until it is time to replace him with another figurehead. Your vote doesn't really count any longer.

[endarkenment]

9. We will see,

Currently they can push a close election one way or another, and they are certainly masters of the tweedledee tweedledum shell game, but da gubernator is having a meltdown and massive election fraud is not currently something they want to mess with.

[olddad56]

10. Yeah, we will see. I think he has nothing to lose by fixing the election.

[GRLMGC]

4. Oh God

I guess he's gonna bust out more initiatives for the primary. I hate him so.

[realFedUp]

5. did he get political advice on this issue?

fire that person.

[confludemocrat]

6. Ahhnold:"See, I can sound and be as thick-headed as Bush" n/t

[SoCalDem]

8. Then let HIM, personally pay for the costs of putting them on the ballots

and the cost of the elections.Arnie.you are NOT the King of Kelli-forn-yah..you are only a temporary blip on the radar screen of stpuid stuff we have done..