Respected Sacramento Bee Columnist Dan Weintraub, on his blog (sorry, you have to pay $$ to read it) reflected on FR’s annual Top Twenty Bills to Veto. Apparently Weintraub might have to join the ranks of those who think that Arnold is more conservative than he actually is — those ranks include many on this website (and a vast amount of those who worked hard on his election and re-election).. Weintraub, upon review of our list (compiled by State Senator Dennis Hollingsworth, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, and yours truly) said this:
"I am going to go out on a limb here and say I think Schwarzenegger will veto at least 15 of the 20 bills this year, and perhaps as many as 18… Given everything that has been said and written about Schwarzenegger’s leftward tilt, it will be interesting to see how this turns out. He could very well veto 19 of these 20 bills, and 21 of the 23 top targets of the most conservative Republican web site in California. At the least he is almost certain to veto more than half of the bills. That must say something about where Schwarzenegger really stands, about how far to the left the Democrats in the Legislature are, or both."
I put this out there because it is my unfortunate task to share with FR readers that yesterday the Governor acted on four of our Top 20 Bills to Veto — SIGNING INTO LAW THREE OF THEM! So as of today, the Governor is scoring a DISMAL 25%, working his way towards a grade of F! Fortunately there is still an opportunity for the Governor to make a come-back, as he has 16 more of the "worst of the worst" sitting on his desk, and if he vetoes all of then, he’ll have stopped 17 of the 20, and will score a "B". Last year, the Governor vetoed 15 of our Top Twenty.
The Governor is going to have to work overtime with his veto pen, rejecting all of the remaining bad bills we have highlighted, in order to preserve the accuracy of Weintraub’s predictions of what the Governor will do…
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October 12th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Is anyone else reading the same thing between the lines here… that
the Governor will retire from politics in 2010 when his term ends?
If he planned to run for U.S. Senate in 2010, it is hard to imagine he
would be signing these bills…