Does He Know They're Linked?

Does Arnold Schwarzenegger have any idea what's happening to him?

Two articles today could make it clear.

First off, the latest round of polls show how unpopular he's become.  Only 36% of voters want him back.  That's terrible.  That's his Republican base and no one else.  That's worse that Bush.  In California!!

Read, for instance, Andy Furillo's take in the Sacramento Bee.

Christian Berthelsen in the SF Chronicle can help explain to Schwarzenegger why he's so unpopular: he has sold the state out to his special interest donors.  I'll let Christian's words speak for themselves:

"Within hours of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's inauguration in 2003 -- a day on which he pledged to devote state government "to your interests, not to special interests" -- business lobbyists began urging the nascent administration to weaken a law guaranteeing the right of workers to meal breaks.

In the months that followed, new court records show, a receptive Schwarzenegger administration worked intimately with the lobbyists -- particularly those for the California Restaurant Association -- to craft "emergency" regulations that would fulfill their agenda: end obligatory meal breaks and place new limits on employers' liability for violating the law in the past.

The lobbyists repeatedly reviewed drafts of the proposed rule change, at least once at the Schwarzenegger administration's request, and gave government officials what one lobbyist called "the official 'green light' " to move forward with the final version, according to the documents.

But I will say it again: the most corrupt Governor in America.

Comments

[Fred Mangels]

What you didn't mention was that, while Arnold's approval rating is pretty low, the same polls show the Democratic controlled state legislature's approval rating was even lower.