LAT: Schwarzenegger Robs Opponent Angelides of Some Key Issues

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Schwarzenegger Robs Angelides of Some Key Issues
By Jordan Rau, Times Staff Writer
August 24, 2006


Conservative! Who, me?
(Beatrice de Gea/LAT)

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's agreements this week on a minimum-wage hike and prescription drug discounts solidifies an election-year transformation that robs his Democratic opponent, Phil Angelides, of coveted middle-class issues.

Since voters rejected his largely conservative special election platform last November, Schwarzenegger has methodically shed all links to his calamitous second year in office.

He replaced his strategists with a team imported from two distant lands: a campaign manager from Washington, D.C., and a chief of staff from the Democratic Party.

He showed that he had absorbed the lesson of the special election — that lawmakers, not the electorate, should be responsible for governing — by striking a $116-billion public works deal with legislators....

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Now Schwarzenegger is in intense negotiations with Democrats on legislation that would cap emissions from factories and other immobile sources of pollution. If he can reach a deal before the Legislature adjourns Aug. 31, he'll have a major environmental achievement to tout before the Nov. 7 election.

"He's trying to kick all the legs out from under the Angelides stool," said Garry South, who ran state Controller Steve Westly's unsuccessful primary against Angelides, the state's treasurer. "They're doing a pretty good job of it, I must say."...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold24aug24,0,323027.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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1. No one should be fooled by Arnold SchwarzeRENEGER

He who speaks with forked tongue. He ran as a moderate, governed as a standard "beholden-to-big-business" conservative who wouldn't work with anyone. He got his ass handed to him when his pet initiatives were squashed by the electorate. Now he's a moderate again. Wanna bet what happens if he is re-elected? Vote NO on proposition Arnold.