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California Election 2006 Watch: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Proposes Term Limit Modification

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Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks on the cell phone to a prospective voter as volunteer Peter Soule, left, works on a phone bank at Schwarzenegger’s new campaign office in Mountain View, Calif., Thursday, July 13, 2006. This is one of 48 campaign offices opening up throughout the state for Schwarzenegger.

Los Angeles Times: Gov. Seeks Deal That Would Ease Term Limits

Hoping to resurrect an idea voters rejected in last year’s special election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to offer lawmakers a deal: He’ll support an easing of term limits if they’ll agree to change the way California draws voting districts.

Schwarzenegger said in an interview Thursday he does not believe term limits have improved Sacramento’s political culture. Allowing legislators to stay in office longer would be worthwhile, he said, if it induced them to put a proposal on the ballot that would strip them of the power to carve political boundaries.

NO WAY……

Schwarzenegger was once supportive of term limits but now says they have failed to improve Sacramento or make lawmakers more accountable.

“I’m not fanatical about that,” he said of the state’s term limits law. “The idea was really good, and there are a lot of people who are big, big fans of term limits. But as far as I’m concerned, it hasn’t really produced.”

Something, governor, conservatives in the GOP have been saying about you during your entire term in office.

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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, gets a laugh from Secretary of Food and Agriculture A.G. Kawamura, left, Under Secretary for Energy Affairs Joe Desmond and Madera Mayor Robert L. Poythress, before answering questions from the media at a news conference at Pacific Ethanol Inc., Thursday, July 13, 2006, in Madera, Calif. The company says construction of the plant should be complete by the fourth quarter of this year and expects the facility to produce more than 35 million gallons of ethanol a year.

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