Ahhhnold will run for re-election

Via AP:

Arnold Schwarzenegger will run for re-election next year, a top aide said Friday, an early announcement the governor hopes will jolt his sagging political momentum with the vitality that swept him into office two years ago.

Schwarzenegger “felt it was very important to let the people of California know this governor plans to be around for the long haul,” campaign spokesman Todd Harris said. “It’s not a 24-month job, it’s a five-year job and he intends to see it through to the end.”

Schwarzenegger has hinted as much for weeks, saying as recently as Wednesday that he wanted to stay and fix the “broken system” in Sacramento. Privately, advisers have urged the Republican governor to declare for months, though the election isn’t until November 2006.

The governor had been expected to make the announcement when he speaks to a rally of invited guests at a noon rally here.

Harris said Schwarzenegger would formally kick off his campaign after a special election on Nov. 8.

I don’t share his beliefs about everything, but he has always struck me as a guy who is at least willing to *try* and make a change. Any of you out there who are Californians – are you interested in a second term for the govnah?

SeaJae says:

September 16, 2005 at 10:03 pm

With the way the California “left” is bashing him and calling him names, the whole country has to realize the Governor is doing something right.

One of the television ads out here in California is taking him to task for “borrowing $2 billion” (YES BILLION WITH A “B”) from the education budget. What I want to know is if our education budget is over $2 billion… why can’t high school graduates here read a TV Guide or balance their check books?

And what the liberals aren’t saying out loud is that the Governor has raised the education budget by $3 billion, thus paying back the money that was “borrowed”.

I say go get ’em Gov!

Baklava says:

September 17, 2005 at 1:42 am

SeaJae,

The education budget in CA is over 50% of the budget. That means… you can add up all other expenses and it still won’t be more than education….

The education budget is over approximately 45 Billion per year. The commercials have been running non-stop accusing Arnold of taking 2 billion but the education expense has NOT GONE DOWN. It’s been MORE every year. It’s just that they expected more with Gray Davis.

I wonder. . Where in the heck do they get all this money to run non-stop commercials against him? Actually, I don’t wonder. I know. They get it from the teachers paychecks. Forced union dues. Aint it grand?

Sister Toldjah says:

September 17, 2005 at 11:20 am

SeaJae, yes … you know the Gov. is doing something right if he’s made the lefties there angry

Bak, I take it there is a big teachers union prescence there?

ttyler5 Houston says:

September 17, 2005 at 4:01 pm

There is an eye-opening book from the Manhattan Institute by Steven Malanga entitled, “The New New Left: The Tax Eaters vs. The Tax Payers” and it is about the coalition between the public employee unions, the social service providers and the social service consumers which is wreaking havoc with taxpayers and budgets in the big cities.

Malanga refers to the public employee unions as “the 800 pound gorillas of policy debates in many state houses and city councils.”

Recently here in Texas during a special session on school finance, the school administrators helped sabotoge the new school finance bill and kill the attached property tax cut, and the “Texas Municipal League” — an organization of city and county goverments and bureaucrats — helped defeat a cap on property tax appraisals.

This was all made possible by a handful of Republican turncoats who went against the majority of voters and the state leadership (the Governor, the Lt. Governor, the Speaker of the House,etc) to vote with these parasites and join the democratic minority to kill these bills.

We are in the process of cleaning house of the turncoats and re-mounting the tax cuts and appraisal caps in the next special session on school finance, but this example as well as Arnie’s battle in California will very clearly show you who the enemy is.

ttyler5:cool:
Houston