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California Special Election Watch: Democrat Leaders are “Spending Addicts”

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at a town hall-style meeting promoting his special election campaign, in the backyard of Jon and Lauri Irvine’s residence in Arcadia, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005.

The ASSociated Press has Schwarzenegger Vows to Rein in Spending.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned Wednesday that legislators could push California into a nightmarish era of higher taxes and runaway spending unless voters endorse his proposal to place tighter controls on the state budget.

In a staged poolside appearance at a private home, the Republican governor told an invitation-only audience that Proposition 76 would give him the tools to fend off a Legislature eager to dig deeper into taxpayers’ pockets.

He also suggested that without greater budget discipline, the state might be unable to meet the mounting demands for everything from electric power to health care to highways.

“They have come to me with ideas like raising the property tax, raising the income tax, raising the taxes on the rich, raising the sales tax, and the tax on gasoline,” the governor said, referring to the Legislature’s Democratic leadership, which opposes the initiative.

Schwarzenegger said Democratic leaders “always want more because they are spending addicts — they cannot help themselves.”

Schwarzenegger is reintroducing and reinforcing the tax and spend themes of his first “recall” election. Proposition 76 limits growth in state spending so that it does not exceed recent growth in state revenues.

The latest poll shows it winning:

54% Yes
41% No
5% Undecided

But, the classless union bosses had their goons out in force to protest – even at this private home:

Protesting firefighters refuse to shake hands with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after he spoke at a town hall meeting promoting his special election campaign at a private residence in Arcadia, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005. The firefighters were protesting Schwarzenneger’s proposals to change state government.

This reminds Flap of those idiota and RUDE union leader firefighters from L.A. and Ventura County who a few weeks ago MOANED about being “ordered” to be present with the Governor when Schwarzenegger came to thank them for their service here in the Conejo Valley.

Stay tuned as the town halls continue and the Governor meets up with Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante for a quasi debate on Friday.

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