(Total) Recall Schwarzenegger?

Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross
Sunday, September 7, 2008

As if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't have enough troubles with the state's $17.2 billion budget mess, now comes word that there may be a move afoot to recall him.


Well-placed Sacramento sources tell us the state's politically powerful and well-financed prison guards union has lawyers drawing up language for a recall initiative.

Word is, the union will decide within the next couple of weeks whether to hit the streets with petitions.

Recalling Schwarzenegger - who himself rode into office with the 2003 recall of then-Gov. Gray Davis - is probably a long shot at best.

Still, Schwarzenegger has angered fellow Republicans with his call for a three-year, 1-cent sales-tax hike to help balance the 2008-09 budget, now more than two months overdue.

His popularity among voters overall is down in the 30 percent range - that's the neighborhood where President Bush's numbers are living among voters nationally - and it stands to drop even more the longer the budget mess drags on.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/BAT312P1M6.DTL


Looking old there, Arnie...

At least Gray Davis was competent. Ahhnuld mouths the right words when he thinks he has to, but he's basically a pro-corporate ideologue.