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Tom Elias makes it simple and clear, Arnold is a failed duplicitous governor.
"The bottom line on Schwarzenegger is that most of his policies — and donors — weren’t very different from Davis’. You could almost sum it up with a lyric from the 1970s song “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”
The polls showed Californians were fooled by Schwarzenegger for quite a while, but by the end they saw through him and gave him ratings about as low as the rejected Davis’s ever were.
If there’s anything to regret here, it is that it took Californians so long to see they had a Potemkin governor, one who always looked and sounded terrific on the surface, but had little or no substance."
He was a pay for play governor, just like Gray Davis.
"The governor refused to answer questions on that topic seriously, always claiming anyone who supported him was out to create jobs, while opponents were job killers.
But it was plain early on who Schwarzenegger would favor: whoever gave him the most money. SBC Communications donated $400,000 to the governor’s committees; opponents of its takeover bid for the better-known AT&T Corp., complete with adopting its name, gave nothing.
So the deal went through and, oddly enough, AT&T has not been a major donor since."
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"The bottom line on Schwarzenegger is that most of his policies — and donors — weren’t very different from Davis’. You could almost sum it up with a lyric from the 1970s song “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”
The polls showed Californians were fooled by Schwarzenegger for quite a while, but by the end they saw through him and gave him ratings about as low as the rejected Davis’s ever were.
If there’s anything to regret here, it is that it took Californians so long to see they had a Potemkin governor, one who always looked and sounded terrific on the surface, but had little or no substance."
He was a pay for play governor, just like Gray Davis.
"The governor refused to answer questions on that topic seriously, always claiming anyone who supported him was out to create jobs, while opponents were job killers.
But it was plain early on who Schwarzenegger would favor: whoever gave him the most money. SBC Communications donated $400,000 to the governor’s committees; opponents of its takeover bid for the better-known AT&T Corp., complete with adopting its name, gave nothing.
So the deal went through and, oddly enough, AT&T has not been a major donor since."
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