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California Special Election Watch: The Los Angeles Times Poll
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, at left, gives a thumbs-up to supporters outside Republican Party headquarters in Bakersfield as firefighters demonstrate nearby. Schwarzenegger is actively campaigning for Propositions 74-77.
The Los Angeles Times has Voters Dislike 3 of Governor’s Ballot Measures.
- His initiatives on state spending, redistricting and unions are all in trouble, reflective of his declining popularity. A tenure issue is a tossup.
Californians likely to vote in the special election Tuesday oppose three of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ballot measures, but Proposition 74, his plan to roll back teacher tenure, remains a tossup, according to a Los Angeles Times poll.
By and large, the survey found the public siding with organized labor and its Democratic allies in their clash with the Republican governor. Only about a third of likely voters favor Proposition 76, his flagship proposal to curb state spending, and Proposition 77, his plan to give retired judges the job of drawing district maps for lawmakers.
Also in trouble is Proposition 75, Schwarzenegger’s plan to require public-worker unions to get written consent from members each year before spending dues on political campaigns: 40% are for it, and 51% against it.
Beyond the ballot contests, the poll confirmed a steep dive in Schwarzenegger’s popularity. His 69% job approval rating a year ago has plummeted to 40%. He remains popular with Republicans, but his support among Democrats has all but collapsed.
Again, not good news for Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Recovery Team. However, Propositions 74 and 75 are within striking range. Flap has always maintained that 76 and 77 were a reach.
Will the governor be able to claim victory if Proposition 73, 74 and perhaps 75 win at the polls next Tuesday?
How the voters rate the Governor and Propositions 74-77 is here.The Los Angeles Times Poll Alert is here.
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California Special Election Watch: It is the Turn-out, Stupid
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger campaigns for Prop. 76 and his reform agenda at a gathering held at an auto salvaging facility Pick-A-Part in Ontario.
Robert Sallady of the Los Angeles Times has Gov. Aims to Get Out Vote Selectively.
- With Schwarzenegger’s initiatives lagging in polls, he hopes the state’s Democratic majority and opponents in the GOP stay home.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered next week’s special election to take his agenda to “the people,” but his campaign strategy relies on relatively few people showing up next Tuesday and large segments of voters staying home.
The governor’s plan — “micro-targeting” voters, advertising in selected markets to reach them and conducting daily polls to augur the political mood — is guided by a single premise: If every Democrat and every Republican in California votes next week, Schwarzenegger’s measures are likely to lose.
Another “hit piece” of the day from the Los Angeles Times. Robert Sallady is a master of the anti-Schwarzenegger “NEWS?” pieces. Or should we call him the negative Arnold spinmeister?
The Times really needs to leave their opinions on their op-ed pages and out of the news columns.
By the way, has Sallady ever heard of political science and turning out your base?
Probably not…….
And the newspapers wonder why their circulation is decreasing and ad revenue is down.
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California Special Election Watch: The Latest California Field Poll
Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger holds 21-month-old Brenna Neault during a campaign stop on Halloween day Monday, Oct. 31, 2005, in Ontario, Calif. Schwarzenegger made the stop to urge voters to support four ballot initiatives aimed at curbing the power of the Democratic-controlled Legislature and the state’s public employee unions.
Reuters has Schwarzenegger may be hurting his own cause — poll.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaigning ahead of election day next week has hurt rather than helped efforts to win support for his four favored ballot initiatives, a poll released on Tuesday found.
The Field Poll released on Tuesday measured voter reaction both before the new approach, from October 18-24, and after, from October 25-30, and found opposition on the rise.Most recently, 51 percent of likely voters opposed his plan to let a panel of retired judges draw electoral districts, compared to 41 percent the week before. Support for the idea fell over the period to 35 percent from 38 percent.
Flap will post the link to the full Field Poll when it is fully released later in the morning.
The Field Poll of 506 likely voters from October 18-24 and 581 adults the following week found unchanged support at 44 percent for Schwarzenegger’s proposal to give teachers tenure after five years rather than two. Yet opposition rose to 50 percent from 47 percent in the survey, which had a plus or minus four percent margin of error.
The star of the “Terminator” films boosted support for a measure giving him more powers to cut the state budget to 32 percent, up from 28 percent. Yet opposition remained at 60 percent, creating a significant obstacle for perhaps the most ambitious of his special election ideas.
Not the greatest results for the Governor and the California Recovery Team.
But, the impact of Proposition 73 and 75 will be heaviest on voter turn-out.
It is apparent theat Proposition 76 continues to fail badly and Proposition 77 has a long way to go for passage (and then a court challenge after the election).
Stay tuned…..more later and of course the SPIN …….
RIP Prop. 76 according to latest California Field Poll.
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California Special Election Watch: Mobilize.Org YES on Proposition 77 at USC
On Tuesday, November 1, MAY and Mobilize.org are continuing their “What Are YOUR Boundaries?†RV Tour in support of Proposition 77, the California Redistricting Initiative at the University of Southern California. The news conference and rally will happen at noon.
Previously on Flap, Proposition 77 Watch: What Are Your Boundaries? Mobilizing America’s Youth.
The Mobilize.org RV Tour has one major purpose and one major goal. The purpose is to educate, empower, and energize young people throughout the state for the upcoming special election, and our goal is to pass the Voter Empowerment Act – Proposition 77. The RV tour is historic and the first of its kind as no other independent organization has hosted such an event exclusively devoted to a single proposition.
Mobilize.org believes that redistricting is the best way to end the political deadlock in California. We have built a strong coalition of support to help us get that message to America’s youth.
The What Are Your Boundaries Blog is here.
So, tomorrow head over to Tommy Trojan and check out the Mobilize.org RV and rally in support of Proposition 77.
Flap knows you will be glad you did.
Update #1:
The RV tour has already made stops at Sacramento State, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, San Francisco State, San Jose State, UC Santa Cruz, Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and UCLA.
WHO: Mobilize.org (David B. Smith, Executive Director of Mobilize.org, speaking)
WHAT: Pro 77 rally at USC
WHEN: Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 12:00 noon
WHERE: Hahn Plaza, in front of the Tommy Trojan Statue (Student Union)
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California Special Election Watch: Proposition 73 Galvanizing the Christian Base
The Sacramento Bee has Abortion measure could be pivotal.
Forces for and against are using Prop. 73 to galvanize their base on the governor’s initiatives.
The California Catholic Conference prepared a series of homilies for priests to mark October as “Respect Life” month and to use as a countdown to the Nov. 8 special election.
The sermons make references to Proposition 73, an initiative that would require parental notification before doctors can perform abortions on girls under 18.
“Proposition 73 is family-oriented, pro-life and promotes the culture of life,” wrote Father Richard Benson, academic dean and moral theology chairman for St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, in his suggested “homily notes” for priests delivering Mass. “It closes the secret access to abortion.”
The talking point homilies are among numerous get-out-the-vote efforts in support of or against the parental notification initiative.
Proposition 73 was in the planning long before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his special election agenda. But as churches, women’s groups and others rally forces to vote on the initiative, the turnout for Proposition 73 is viewed as a factor in how other special election measures may fare.
On one side, the Traditional Values Coalition is printing 100,000 slate mailers for evangelical churches, declaring: “We must not let Planned Parenthood and their baby-killing allies dominate at the polls.”
And Benjamin Lopez, a coalition lobbyist, said the slate mailers will also urge Christian conservatives to vote “yes” on the governor’s special election agenda, comprising Propositions 74, 75, 76 and 77. The measures would extend the time it takes teachers to earn tenure, require public employee labor unions to get members’ permission before spending dues on political campaigns, give the governor broad powers to make budget cuts and change how legislative districts are drawn.
“We need to get our base motivated about 73 and that, hopefully, will have a coattail effect with the other measures,” Lopez said
With a week to go before the California Special Election it is ALL about turning out your voter BASE.
Will Pro-Life voters deliver proposition victories for Governor Schwarzenegger?
Stay tuned…….
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California Special Election Watch: Proposition 73 – Flap Says Vote YES
On July 30, 2004, Diana Lopez received a call from her daughter’s middle school, informing her that her 13-year-daughter hadbeen taken to the hospital because she was bleeding. By the time Diana found out where her daughter had actually been taken, a Planned Parenthood abortion center, her young daughter was already undergoing an abortion — orchestrated by her boyfriend’s mother and Planned Parenthood staff. Diana had not known that her daughter was pregnant or contemplating an abortion. Had Diana known of her daughter’s pregnancy, she would have encouraged and assisted her to have her baby rather than undergo a secret abortion.
Flap supports Proposition 73, the Parents Right To Know initiative. and urges its passage at the California Special Election, November 8th.
Proposition 73: Parental Notification
• Termination of Minor’s Pregnancy. Waiting Period and Parental Notification. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
Summary: Amends California Constitution to bar abortion on unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor’s parent/legal guardian, except in medical emergency or with parental waiver. Permits judicial waiver of notice based on clear and convincing evidence of minor’s maturity or minor’s best interests. Physician must report abortions performed on minors and State shall compile statistics. Authorizes monetary damages for violation. Minor must consent to abortion unless mentally incapable or in medical emergency. Permits judicial relief if minor’s consent to abortion is coerced.
Latest polling results and a poll summary is here.
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California Special Election Watch: Another L.A. Times “Hit Piece” on Schwarzenegger’s Wife
California first lady Maria Shriver hands out emergency backpacks to students at a south Los Angeles elementary school to kick-off Team SAFE-T, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2006.
The Los Angeles Times has First Lady Appears to Be Sitting Out This Election.
- Kennedy legacy clashes with her loyalty to her spouse, keeping Shriver silent on ballot issues.
On a recent morning, Maria Shriver had a roomful of admiring listeners hanging on her every word. Unfortunately for her husband, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, none of them was old enough to vote.
Shriver was addressing a fourth-grade class at Charles W. Barrett Elementary School in South Los Angeles as part of a campaign to improve disaster preparedness among children. On another campaign important to the Shriver-Schwarzenegger household — the battle over state ballot initiatives backed by the governor — California’s first lady has remained virtually silent.
Here we go!
One week before the California Special Election and the hatchets come out for Governor Schwarzenegger’s wife.
Paul Pringle the reporter is a committed leftie with a left wing agenda. And he is happy to oblige the Moonbat editors of the Los Angeles TimesAsk Flap how he knows?
Aides to the couple say that isn’t expected to change before the Nov. 8 special election. They and others don’t blame Shriver for her silence, even if it has deprived Schwarzenegger of one of his most articulate and charismatic advocates.
After all, Shriver would be breaking family ranks no matter where she came down on the measures, Democratic and Republican activists say. As a Democrat and a Kennedy, they say, she would have to all but shape-shift to endorse proposals despised by the party that counts three of her uncles as icons.
And if she were to publicly criticize the initiatives, things presumably would get chilly on the home front.
And who from the Los Angeles Times ever asked Sharon Davis about why her husband bankrupted the state while he was California Governor?
This is disgraceful BIASED journalism from the Los Angeles Times.
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California Special Election Watch: Schwarzenegger in FULL Campaign Mode
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks to the media while touring the Koreatown Galleria in Los Angeles, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005. Elected two years ago to shake up a stagnated statehouse, the Republican governor is trying out various campaign messages in the closing days of a political campaign in which he hopes to push through a slate of ballot initiatives that would weaken public employee unions and clamp down on state spending.
The San Francisco Chronicle has Schwarzenegger trolls for votes at San Diego restaurant
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger waded into a lunchtime crowd Sunday to kick off a final full week of campaigning for his four state ballot initiatives, telling customers waiting on shrimp salad and clam chowder that lawmakers have failed them.
Schwarzenegger emerged quietly, without introduction, from the kitchen of Point Loma Seafoods. For 45 minutes, he shook hands, handed out campaign booklets, signed autographs and posed for photos. There were no speeches, no loudspeakers and — unlike many of his appearances — no protests.
“Remember one thing: the Legislature couldn’t do it, so the people have to do it,” he told one customer.
“The people have done a better job than the Legislature,” he told another, his voice barely carrying in the noisy crowd.
With close races for Proposition 74 and 75 the Governor has taken the show on the road. Will it be enough?
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks to members of the Persian community during a roundtable discussion in Los Angeles, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2005.
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California Special Election Watch: “Anyone writing Arnold’s political obituary is making a mistake” – Gray Davis
The Los Angeles Daily News has Davis: Arnold won’t lose power after election.
Even if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s measures lose in the Nov. 8 special election, he will remain a powerhouse in California, his ousted predecessor said Friday.
Former Gov. Gray Davis, now a private attorney and a policy fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, predicted a “split” on Schwarzenegger’s four initiatives on the ballot.
Gray Davis was an indecisive political leader who bowed down to the Union bosses who eventually destroyed his career. He has always had a keen sense of the California political winds.
However, he was stalemated by his own UNION allies, made poor political as well as governance decisions and lost it all.
Popular support has been lacking for the four Schwarzenegger-backed measures that would increase his power over the budget, change the state redistricting process, limit union political contributions and make it harder for teachers to get tenure.
But Davis dismissed Democrats and others who say a major loss next month could cripple Schwarzenegger’s chances in his campaign to retain the governor’s seat in 2006.
“Anyone writing Arnold’s political obituary is making a mistake,” said Davis, a Democrat himself. “Even if all his initiatives are voted down, he still will be a formidable force in 2006.”
Gray Davis has it RIGHT and supports Flap in saying that Schwarzenegger has already won the special election.
Davis said he thinks voters are more forgiving when it comes to losing ballot measures.
“People don’t resent you putting an initiative on the ballot, because its fate is in their hands. What they get upset about is when they have no recourse,” he said. “This election is just not going to determine the governor’s fate in 2006.”
Agreed and what about draining your union friend’s (?) coffers going into 2006 and possibly bankrupting the California Teachers Association?
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California Special Election Watch: Does California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez Support Violence and Thuggery?
CBS Channel 2 and KCAL News Los Angeles television Channel Nine has this video clip depicting a single Schwarzenegger supporter (Genevieve Peters) struggling to hold her ground in a rally against the governor’s special election initiatives. The rally was held at Los Angeles Pershing Square yesterday. Schwarzenegger opponents tried to hit her with their signs, tried to steal her hat and some blocked news cameras as she argued her point. The crowd turns quickly, grabbing her signs and tearing them up. Even a woman wearing an orange security vest rips up the “Vote Yes†signs.†(CBS 2 News, October 28, 2005).
Check out the video clip here.
Check out the thugs as they assault Ms. Peters.
Now, California Assembly Speaker earlier had whipped up the union crowd to a frenzy. As a former union organizer shouldn’t he know better and urge restraint?
Shouldn’t he now APOLOGIZE to Ms. Peters on behalf of the UNION THUGS that control him?
Call his office and let him now how you feel! Remind the Speaker this is America and not a third world country – violence is not acceptable for political dissent.
Sacramento Office: (916) 319-2046
Los Angeles Office: (213) 620-4646
Flap knows you will be glad you did.
Thanks to The Political Teen for help with the graphics.
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Michelle Malkin has UNION THUGS UNHINGED