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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie action-hero who became governor of California, walked off stage in Sacramento on Monday, leaving behind a $28-billion budget shortfall for his successor, Jerry Brown, a job approval rating of 23 percent, and many critical media reviews of his governorship. Even Schwarzenegger acknowledged that he had failed to "blow up the boxes" of state government as he promised to do when he took office more than six years ago. "It's true that we did not blow up all the boxes I intended to blow up," Schwarzenegger told The Wall Street Journal. "It was more difficult than I ...
You've gotta love California elections. Back in 2003, the state's voters recalled Governor Gray Davis and selected from a cadre of actors to replace him. (The guy from Predator beat out the one from Diff'rent Strokes and another one from Sex Spa 2.)More recently, the mayor of Los Alamitos in Orange County was forced to resign for insinuating that President Obama was a watermelon-slurpin' yokel, while activist Cindy Sheehan ran a campaign starring Roseanne that suggested Nancy Pelosi was a George W. Bush clone. (Try repeating that one at CPAC.)But the latest news might take the cake. In the Los ...
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