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2008
Why Schwarzenegger's Redistricting Plan
Won't Work
California Majority Report.com
May 13, 2008
Tony Quinn: Redistricting Reform OK, But
It's Only A Start
Sacramento Bee
May 11, 2008
Governor May Face Donor Fatigue
Contra Costa Times
May 11, 2008
Dan Walters: Competing Proposals For Remap
Sacramento Bee
May 7, 2008
Initiative On Redistricting Closer To
Ballot
San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Nunez Pushes Ethics Plan As Rival Petitions
Are Filed
Sacramento Bee
May 7, 2008
To Get Leadership Reform, We First Need
Redistricting
Los Angeles Daily News
May 1, 2008
Good Intentions Could Harm Redistricting
Ballot Measure
Los Angeles Times
April 28, 2008
Redistricting On Track To Qualify,
Consultant Says
New America Foundation.com
April 23, 2008
Why Are GOP Contributors Putting Big Money
Into Redistricting Reform?
California Progress Report.com
April 19, 2008
Gov's
Giving To Remap Measure Tops $1 million
Sacramento Bee Capital Alert
April 21, 2008
‘Due
Process’ Democrats Have Their Heads Buried in the California Sand
California Progress Report.com
April 20, 2008
Opinion: Seeing The Light
Los Angeles Daily News
April 19, 2008
California
Voters FIRST Presents A Balanced And Bipartisan Effort For Redistricting
Reform
California Progress Report.com
April 17, 2008
Schwarzenegger's
Redistricting Plan Comes Under Fire
Contra Costa Times
April 17, 2008
Group Says Plan Will Put A Stop To
Gerrymandering
The Simi Valley Acron
April 4, 2008
The Need For Redistricting Reform From
This California Democrat’s Perspective
California Progress Report.com
April 4, 2008
Labor Says No To
Schwarzenegger/Republican/Common Cause Redistricting Measure
The California Majority Report.com
April 02, 2008
Revenge In Attack On Legislative
Redistricting?
California Progress Report.com
March 31, 2008
Weintraub: Governor Gets Another Shot At
Redistricting Reform
Sacramento Bee
March 30, 2008
Editorial: Can't Legislature Do Better Than
Bills On Dogs, Donkeys?
The Fresno Bee
March 30, 2008
Walters: Voters Irate At Budget Posturing
Sacramento Bee
March 28, 2008
New Foundation To Campaign For More Efficient
California Government
Sacramento Bee
March 27, 2008
Editorial: California Voters Should Support
Redistricting Ballot Measure
Fresno Bee
March 24, 2008
Editorial: Redraw the Map
Los Angeles Daily News
March 22, 2008
Walters: Court Ruling Offers Hope to
Dysfunctional California Politics
Sacramento Bee
March 19, 2008
Supreme Court to Hear Major Redistricting
Case
The Thicket at State Legislatures (ncsl.com)
March 18, 2008
Editorial: Let Citizens Redraw the Map
The Torrance Daily Breeze
March 17, 2008
Walters: Redistrict Reformers Miss Mark
Sacramento Bee
March 10, 2008
Let Citizens
Redraw Map
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
March 9, 2008
Governor Proposes Redistricting Ballot
Measure
North County Times
March 8, 2008
Redistricting Initiative Has Strong
Republican Backing
San Jose Mercury News
March 6, 2008
Governor Gathers Signatures to Qualify
Redistricting Measure
San Jose Mercury News
March 4, 2008
Manipulative Lawmakers Playing To The Crowd
Fresno Bee
February 14, 2008
State Voters Need To Do What Lawmakers
Won't
Los Angeles Daily News
February 14, 2008
Editorial: What We Need In Sacramento,
Redistricting, Not Retaliation
San Jose Mercury News
February 14, 2008
Redistricting Reform, Not Longer Terms, Is
The Answer
California Republic.org
February 12, 2008
The Buzz: A Hardball Tactic Could Ricochet
Sacramento Bee
February 11, 2008
Wake Up, Sacramento Media! Wake Up! Wake
Up! Wake Up!
San Diego Union Tribune
February 8, 2008
Editorial: Passive Aggressive Lawmakers
Just Play to the Crowd
Fresno Bee
February 8, 2008
Nunez Takes Blame For Prop. 93 Loss
Los Angeles Daily News
February 7, 2008
Weingand: Voters Got A Whiff and Said 'No'
Sacramento Bee
February 7, 2008
Lawmakers Believe In Term Limits But
Oppose The Measure
North County Times
February 4, 2008
Good For Us
Los Angeles Times
February 4, 2008
Commentary: A Conversation with Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Sacramento Bee
January 20, 2008
Walters: Two Party Structure Under Fire
Sacramento Bee
January 18, 2008
Walters: Governor's Brownian Flip-Flops
Sacramento Bee
January 16, 2008
Editorial: Corruption of a Good Idea
San Francisco Chronicle
January 15, 2008
Governor Supports Term Limit Measure
Sacramento Bee
January 15, 2008
A Deceptive Prop. 93
San Francisco Chronicle
January 10, 2008
Use Prop. 93 To Say 'No"
dailybreeze.com
January 3, 2008
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Commentary: A Conversation with Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Sacramento Bee
January 20, 2008
On Wednesday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger met with The Bee's editorial
board to discuss the state budget and its $14.5 billion shortfall,
among other topics. Following are edited excerpts from his 90-minute
conversation.
On how a recent poll showed Californians still give him high
marks even as they dislike the direction the state is headed:
I don't think I'm Teflon. I think people are sophisticated enough
that they know that as governor you're not the only one that runs
the state. We do not have a dictatorship. There is me. There's 120
people, and I think that they recognize that it takes 120
legislators to go along with those kind of things. The budget
situation: They have read that same story many times before. They
know that this is not a new problem. They know that Gray Davis was
in the same situation. They know that Pete Wilson was in the same
situation. They know that (George) Deukmejian was in the same
situation. They know that Jerry Brown was in the same situation. …
Even Ronald Reagan was in the same situation. Earl Warren talked how
about we ought to have a rainy day fund. … I cannot enforce this
budget. I need the two-thirds of the vote or the people's vote.
On why the state should cut spending by closing state parks
instead of raising fees:
Now people are going to get creative with the fees to find ways
of keeping the parks open, which I think they should be kept open,
but users should pay for the usage of this. … Nothing is going to
be closed. They're going to have people pay for it. … We never
said you close it. We just said that under budget restraints we
cannot pay for those parks.
So now there is already talk, that maybe we should have fees and
maybe that's what will keep the parks open. … The budget is always
a proposal … that stimulates the conversation, and everyone starts
then getting into the mix. And what I was doing with this budget is
just say, "Here's the reality," and the reality will
rattle the cage, and everyone will wake up and there's no time
anymore to wait; this is the time to act.
On his new support of Proposition 93, which would modify term
limits for legislators:
When I first came into office, I did not at all favor the idea of
legislators staying a long period of time up here. Then when I came
up here, and I started working with the legislators, I really got a
feel for the whole thing up here, who's controlling what.
It became very clear that the special interests and lobbyists are
much better equipped to make decisions up here than the legislators
are and represent their companies, their industries, much better
than the legislators can represent the people that they're supposed
to represent.
It is because the lobbyists and the special interests up here are
just very well skilled, and they've been here for a very long period
of time. … The legislators, there's continuous turnover. … It
sounds good to go and say, "Let's take the time away," …
but the reality of it is when you work in there, and I've now just
started working with Fabian (Núñez, the Assembly speaker) and with
(Senate President Pro Tem Don) Perata and (Sen. Dick) Ackerman and
all those characters together – you start building a trust, and
all the sudden they're gone next year.
It's the same as with (former Senate President Pro Tem John)
Burton. I just got this groove going with this guy and we could
understand each other, and all of a sudden he's being ripped away
because of the law. I liked him even though we were totally
different in our philosophy, but you could work with him.
Now I have to start all over again with Perata. I always told
Fabian I would never ever endorse this (Proposition 93) if you don't
go and do redistricting. … Everyone came in and tried different
ways; they just could never get it done. And we're still negotiating
… the redistricting.
On how he views the California presidential primary:
It is wide open. Anyone could win … We in California are now in
a perfect place, because they all have to look at California in a
very serious way, unlike what a lot of people said would happen. I
think California will be very relevant.
On presidential candidates and climate change:
Well, I think it is important to see what their vision is of the
future and what they would do. What kind of changes would they make
with energy? I want to see if someone is daring enough to say,
"I want to cut our usage of fossil fuels 5 percent a year for
10 years." Or that we will put money behind it as a country to
explore alternative fuels. There is certain technology out there,
but there could be even better technology out there. We don't know.
(Sen. Barack) Obama has talked a lot about the Kennedys' putting
a man on the moon and stuff. I want to see the candidates talk on
that level: "If I become president, here is what I would do. In
10 years from now, we will be the A, B and C, and really make
drastic changes in the way we look at cars, the fuels that cars are
using, the fuels we use to create energy in this country, all of
those kind of things."
America has such an unbelievable opportunity here. There is such
a vacuum in this area and such a need in this area. We know we have
to clean the world and clean the environment. We are being taken
hostage with the oil prices, and everyone is suffering because of
it. We can do better than that.
This administration has just not done it, and an extraordinary
opportunity was lost because of it.
On who will get his vote on Feb. 5:
I will let you know after I vote.
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