Our governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is packing his bags and hightailing it out of Sacramento this week. This gave me pause and made me think...why did we recall Gray Davis in the first place?
After the so-called "citizen's uprising" that removed Davis from his post (and truthfully, can you call the work of one congressman who personally financed the recall election a citizen's uprising?), we were assured that California was on the right path. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the body builder-turned mega-action star with no political experience and a penchant for grabbing the breasts of women he just met, would kick legislative ass. Our state's finances would improve, education would be reformed and there'd be fewer Mexican street merchants selling gum.
Let's flash forward to 2010. Aside from his series of embarrasing public comments ("She's either Puerto Rican or Cuban - I mean, they are both very hot"), Schwarzenegger did nothing to dig us out of our financial mess. Education did not get a significant boost. I continue to buy oranges from Manuel at the corner of La Cienega and Washington.
Gray Davis certainly wasn't our savior, but he couldn't have been any worse than Ah-nuld.
(Well, except for the off-color jokes. I'll give you that.)
After the so-called "citizen's uprising" that removed Davis from his post (and truthfully, can you call the work of one congressman who personally financed the recall election a citizen's uprising?), we were assured that California was on the right path. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the body builder-turned mega-action star with no political experience and a penchant for grabbing the breasts of women he just met, would kick legislative ass. Our state's finances would improve, education would be reformed and there'd be fewer Mexican street merchants selling gum.
Let's flash forward to 2010. Aside from his series of embarrasing public comments ("She's either Puerto Rican or Cuban - I mean, they are both very hot"), Schwarzenegger did nothing to dig us out of our financial mess. Education did not get a significant boost. I continue to buy oranges from Manuel at the corner of La Cienega and Washington.
Gray Davis certainly wasn't our savior, but he couldn't have been any worse than Ah-nuld.
(Well, except for the off-color jokes. I'll give you that.)
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