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God. And it was Democrats who pushed for it too IIRC. Corruption deep on both sides of the aisle.

• mullingitover 5y ago
  To be fair, the republican party trashed its brand so thoroughly that it essentially doesn't exist in California, so we're under one party rule. There is no other side of the aisle. It's a shame because Schwarzenegger gave the party a winning formula when he was governor, but the party swung so far off the rails that his centrism makes him a bolshevik to the party as it exists now. One party rule isn't good, but we don't have any sane alternatives here.
  • myfavoritedog 5y ago
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    > It's a shame because Schwarzenegger gave the party a winning formula when he was governor Yes, but “find a political cypher of a celebrity, run in an irregular election leveraging a crisis created by Republican state and federal policies, and appoint an listen to a lot of establishment Dems as advisers while ignoring Republican Party insiders and donors because you don't need them once you have the dual advantages of celebrity and incumbency and don't care about the party as such” isn't really a structurally-repeatable strategy.
    • quartesixte 5y ago
      Not just any celebrity—Arnold Schwarzenegger. Man those were some crazy times.