Der Gropinator: A referendum on ME? NO, it's a referendum on YOU!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Governor about to get answer on what voters think of agenda

By John Marelius
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

November 6, 2005

Ten months ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed 2005 the "year of reform" and boldly predicted that if the Legislature failed to make fundamental changes in state government and its politics, "the people will rise up and reform it themselves." In two days, Schwarzenegger will find out whether he was right or the people rise up against his vision of reform.

Tuesday's statewide special election will decide the fate of the Republican governor's four-part ballot agenda along with four other measures. But because the special election has thrown California into a year of incendiary partisan rancor, much more is at stake than a batch of complicated ballot propositions.

"I think it's flat-out a referendum on Arnold and his agenda," said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California. "I don't think there's any way around that. He's made it so by his own rhetoric and his own positioning."

The Schwarzenegger camp insists the election is not a referendum on the governor, but a referendum on Sacramento. "If people are happy with the way things are running in Sacramento, they should vote 'no' across the board," Schwarzenegger campaign spokesman Todd Harris said. "But if they want to send a message that business as usual ain't going to cut it anymore, then they should vote 'yes' on all four of these measures."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/state/20051106-9999-1n6elect.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. People should NOT vote "no across the board"

They should vote No on everything except 79 & 80, and REALLY give Arnold the finger.