- California voters made political history October 7 by
electing superstar body-builder and immigrant Arnold Schwarzenegger as
the Governor of the Golden State, the most populous state in the nation.
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- California has always been a leader in political trends,
starting with a tax revolt many years ago over property taxes. As some
pundits say, As California goes, so goes the nation.
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- Schwarzenegger's victory is an ominous sign for 'liberalism,"
which represents more government, more taxes, more give-away "entitlements"
and lots of lies, deception and downright mean-spirited nastiness.
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- Look what the super-liberal Los Angeles Times did to
"The Terminator" just a few days before the election. This Marxist
propaganda machine dug up more dirt on Arnold that had nothing to do with
the issues the voters wanted to address: Taxes, Jobs, Immigration and Health
Care.
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- The pathetic Times tried to destroy Schwarzenegger with
undocumented sexual harassment charges going back 30 years. Not one of
these women ever filed formal charges against the movie star. So much for
irresponsible slander.
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- Schwarzenegger candidly admitted he behaved badly on
some of the sets of the Hollywood hit movies in which he was the superstar.
That's the way it is in Tinsel Town, which functions in its own weird world.
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- Schwarzenegger is a die-hard "fiscal conservative."
As an immigrant who has amassed a fortune of more than $200 million, Arnold
has a keen sense of business and making the right financial decisions in
his incredible life that has become the American Dream success story!
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- Now, the Governor-elect must apply those same business
and financial skills to California's debt-ridden government. He'll have
more than enough help from the world's richest individual, Warren Buffet,
his chief financial adviser.
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- The biggest challenge Schwarzenegger faces is not California's
unprecedented debt of more than $35 billion. It's battling the liberal
Democrats in the State Legislature, which helped outgoing Governor Gray
Davis push the state to the brink of bankruptcy.
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- By winning the election by a landslide, Schwarzenegger
enters the Governor's Office with the strong support of the voters and
taxpayers and California's business community. That's a huge constituency
that can rally behind the new Governor to make change efficiently and effectively.
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- If California's liberal legislators attempt to block
the new Chief Executive's initiatives to reform a tax-and-spend state government,
then Schwarzenegger can call on his faithful followers to demonstrate and
protest from San Diego to the San Francisco to lower taxes and spending
to balance the budget.
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- The California Establishment is made up of liberal politicians,
liberal educators, liberal media and liberal Hollywood. That's a monstrous
task, even for a mighty superstar known throughout the world.
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- With the devastating loss of Gray Davis, who was also
rejected by many in his own party, maybe now Bill Clinton will slink off
the political stage and spend the rest of his self-destructive life in
the shadows of his past misdeeds.
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- Clinton came to California with all the political hoopla
of the so-called "Comeback Kid" as Gray Davis' "powerful"
adviser.
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- So much for Clinton and his vicious cronies who will
do everything they can to destroy a Republican candidate for high office.
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- Clinton and the liberals lost.
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- Schwarzenegger and his fiscally conservative Republicans,
along with many Democrats and Independents, won by a massive landslide.
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- It doesn't get any better than that, especially in California,
where the state's Governor is a recognized international leader. If California
were a sovereign nation, it would be the world's fifth largest economy.
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- Now, let the games begin.
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- "Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication
allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact."
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- Gordon Bishop is a national award winning author, historian
and syndicated columnist, and New Jersey's first "Journalist-of-the-Year"
- New Jersey Press Association/1986. He is a regular columnist for Ether
Zone.
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- Gordon Bishop can be reached at: GJBishop@aol.com
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- Published in the October 9, 2003 issue of Ether Zone.
- Copyright © 1997 - 2003 Ether Zone.
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