Arnold is a Big-City Liberal (Rips on Rural CA and Endorses Prop 99)
Posted by: Aaron Park | 05/03/2008 7:48 PM
Arnold loves Prop 99, his vision for California is to have your house paved over with a strip mall. Heck - Ose could build his Cabana anywhere in that case. Arnold is one of two sitting Governors that call themselves members of the Mainstreet Partnership - check their website...
The Mainstreet Partnership angle bears mention - Arnold is their poster child of what a Republican should be... Post-Partisan. It underscores the differences between the RMSP and the rest of the GOP. Read their scarlet letter if you have any questions about their vision of Unity in the GOP...
As to Arnold - watch him endorse property theft by local government, then read about him ripping on rural California... Nice, eh? Republican Main Street Partnership - the Republicans that are too sophisticated to cling to their Guns and Religion.
Arnold should be campaigning for Ose...
Recent News on Yes Prop. 98
Today's Orange County Register condemned the governor's recent opposition to Prop. 98 saying, "It's disappointing that the governor would embrace such a transparent scare tactic" and encouraging voters to "cut through the smoke screen and realize that Prop. 98 is about protecting their property, and Prop. 99 is about endangering it." Read the Editorial.
Supporters of Prop. 98 rallied in Redding earlier this week, where small business owner Hardev Bal was one of several property owners who spoke in favor of Prop. 98. Read the story.
Also this week, two more newspapers have urged support for Prop. 98. "The Victorville Daily Press says We urge support for real eminent-domain reform, Prop. 98, and opposition to phony reform, Prop. 99.
Click here to read more editorials and articles on Prop. 98.
Karen England and the CRI had a few things to say about Arnold's recent comments ripping on Northern Californians:
In a Beverly Hills speech yesterday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made fun of "little town" legislators. Answering a question about why more lawmakers don't travel the world to bring back ideas for our own nation, Schwarzenegger stated:
"---I always encourage the legislators in Sacramento, because some of them come from those little towns. (Laughter) You know what I'm saying? They come from those little towns and they don't have that vision yet of an airport. (Applause) Or of a highway that maybe has 10 lanes or of putting a highway on top of a highway. They look at you and they say, "Well, we don't have that in my town. What are you talking about?" So they are kind of shocked when you say certain things."
According to the Sacramento Bee, "His comments on small-town legislators drew laughs and applause from the big-city audience at the Beverly Hilton."
"Most Californians are from small towns, and those citizens are hard working Americans with traditional values, stated Karen England, executive director for Capitol Resource Institute. "For the governor of California to ridicule legislators, and their constituents, is disgusting."
"The governor is belittling our existence by attacking our elected representatives as unsophisticated rubes incapable of understanding complex issues of governance and technology," continued England. "These unbelievable comments are further proof that Arnold Schwarzenegger is completely out of touch with our state and is an elitist."
"How can we be assured that the governor will defend the average Californian's values when he laughs at us and considers us backwards hicks?" questioned England.
"The governor's comments bring to mind Barack Obama's recent derogatory comments in San Francisco about small town citizens clinging to their guns and Bible," stated Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Family Impact. "Both elitist politicians had no problem disparaging their constituents in front of friendly audiences in San Francisco and Hollywood. Average 'little town' citizens don't want San Francisco or Hollywood 'values' forced upon us by arrogant office holders."
Tell Governor Schwarzenegger what you think about his insulting comments.
http://capwiz.com/capitolresource/bio/?id=141270&lvl=S&chamber=G
Read the Sacramento Bee story
The Mainstreet Partnership angle bears mention - Arnold is their poster child of what a Republican should be... Post-Partisan. It underscores the differences between the RMSP and the rest of the GOP. Read their scarlet letter if you have any questions about their vision of Unity in the GOP...
As to Arnold - watch him endorse property theft by local government, then read about him ripping on rural California... Nice, eh? Republican Main Street Partnership - the Republicans that are too sophisticated to cling to their Guns and Religion.
Arnold should be campaigning for Ose...
Recent News on Yes Prop. 98
Today's Orange County Register condemned the governor's recent opposition to Prop. 98 saying, "It's disappointing that the governor would embrace such a transparent scare tactic" and encouraging voters to "cut through the smoke screen and realize that Prop. 98 is about protecting their property, and Prop. 99 is about endangering it." Read the Editorial.
Supporters of Prop. 98 rallied in Redding earlier this week, where small business owner Hardev Bal was one of several property owners who spoke in favor of Prop. 98. Read the story.
Also this week, two more newspapers have urged support for Prop. 98. "The Victorville Daily Press says We urge support for real eminent-domain reform, Prop. 98, and opposition to phony reform, Prop. 99.
Click here to read more editorials and articles on Prop. 98.
Karen England and the CRI had a few things to say about Arnold's recent comments ripping on Northern Californians:
In a Beverly Hills speech yesterday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made fun of "little town" legislators. Answering a question about why more lawmakers don't travel the world to bring back ideas for our own nation, Schwarzenegger stated:
"---I always encourage the legislators in Sacramento, because some of them come from those little towns. (Laughter) You know what I'm saying? They come from those little towns and they don't have that vision yet of an airport. (Applause) Or of a highway that maybe has 10 lanes or of putting a highway on top of a highway. They look at you and they say, "Well, we don't have that in my town. What are you talking about?" So they are kind of shocked when you say certain things."
According to the Sacramento Bee, "His comments on small-town legislators drew laughs and applause from the big-city audience at the Beverly Hilton."
"Most Californians are from small towns, and those citizens are hard working Americans with traditional values, stated Karen England, executive director for Capitol Resource Institute. "For the governor of California to ridicule legislators, and their constituents, is disgusting."
"The governor is belittling our existence by attacking our elected representatives as unsophisticated rubes incapable of understanding complex issues of governance and technology," continued England. "These unbelievable comments are further proof that Arnold Schwarzenegger is completely out of touch with our state and is an elitist."
"How can we be assured that the governor will defend the average Californian's values when he laughs at us and considers us backwards hicks?" questioned England.
"The governor's comments bring to mind Barack Obama's recent derogatory comments in San Francisco about small town citizens clinging to their guns and Bible," stated Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Family Impact. "Both elitist politicians had no problem disparaging their constituents in front of friendly audiences in San Francisco and Hollywood. Average 'little town' citizens don't want San Francisco or Hollywood 'values' forced upon us by arrogant office holders."
Tell Governor Schwarzenegger what you think about his insulting comments.
http://capwiz.com/capitolresource/bio/?id=141270&lvl=S&chamber=G
Read the Sacramento Bee story
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Aaron,
I am shocked, simply SHOCKED to find out that Arnold is a liberal!
It would do voters in the 4th Congressional district good to remember that Arnold ran as a conservative, just like Cabana Boy!
John
Aaron-
Are you a landlord? Are you sure you don't just want to repeal rent control?
Vote YES ON 99, then we can add more protections on the next possible ballot! Prop 98 is loaded up with too many extras and 99 is too weak, but in an either/or scenario, I'll take what I can get and try to get more later.
SMS
SMS-
Are you nuts? Prop 99 actually makes it easier for government to steal our property. It actually repeals some protections on the books now! FYI- I am not a landlord.
California needs real private property protections not just smoke and mirrors made by the very people who are guilty of theft (league of cities and redevelopment agencies). Get a clue.
Vote Yes on 98
PS- Arnold is a liberal! Don't blame me, I voted for McClintock!
Are YOU nuts? Please don't shoot the messenger! I didn't make it an either/or proposition. Take it up with the authors of the initiatives!
We still need rent control here in OC or else the area faces further gentrification as it squeezes more lower-income families out.
When they're gone, who will clean the affluent (predominantly white) folks' McMansions and Beemers?!
SMS
The reason rent control is added on to Prop 98 is that rent control can be imposed on a property owner as a back door way of taking their property. We can't take it by eminent domain? How about if we impose an unrealistic rent control on the property thus forcing the owner to sell? This measure will not throw current rent control tenants out on the street. Current tenants will continue to receive the benefit of those regulations as long as they live in their residences. This measure will protect more than just the residence you live in but will add much needed protections for businesses and farm land. Under Prop 98, family farms and open space are protected from seizures by government for the purpose of selling the natural resources.
Prop 99 is sponsored by the very entities that want to be able to take our land and develop it for more lucrative purposes. It does nothing to protect our businesses and our farms. California is the number one agricultural state in the nation and urban demand for land and especially water are a constant threat to the food supply most Californians take for granted. It is important to vote yes on 98 and no on 99 in order to protect businesses, farms and the jobs and the food that they produce.
Just like price gaps on Gasoline, right?
Leads to rationing.
Rental housing is a great form of low-income housing and allowing Governments to walk in and BACK DOOR - eminent domain property in the form of making rent controls is evil.
Why? A city council could set a bogus number causing a landlord to lose a boatload of money forcing a sale of the building. No one would buy such a building except the city as the rent cap would guarantee another investor of a loss.
Prop 99 was designed to protect the interests of Developers and City Councils to take property with no accountability. That is tyranny, not class warfare. That is elitist - not Conservative.
The human thing is to slap Squishenegger across his chin and vote yes on 98, no on 99!
Anytime a measure is authored with a poison pill, it should give yu pause. 99 was designed to kill 98.
Adding a rent control provision to an eminent domain referendum isn't a 'poison pill?' How do you figure that?
Prop 98 only protects rent control for those who are grandfathered in. If you want to move within the county, well, sucks to be you, move to LA or IE because you can't afford OC anymore.
I already admitted that Prop 99 doesn't go far enough, but I'd rather try to add protections to 99 later than remove layers of complexity and irrelevance from 98, the latter being much more difficult.
Couldn't they have written a referendum that JUST addresses eminent domain or one that isn't intended to compete against a similar law? There's your 'poison pill.'
SMS
Sarah - people claiming that Prop 98 does not protect renters are using scare tactics to try and defeat it.
99 was written so that if both it and 98 pass - 99 poison pills 98 out of existence. This proves the mailcious intent of the League of Cities that still want to be able to cease property with impunity.
We would not be having this debate if it was not for the Kelo decision written by the Clinton-Appointed judges. (and the Reagan appointee that squished out)
Aaron-
Precisely. If not for Kelo... So please tell me what rent control has to do with eminent domain. Look, we could debate the pros and cons of rent control all day long, but the bottom line is, it shouldn't be voted on in the same initiative as something as important as eminent domain. Repealing rent control in such a way simply shifts a sort of eminent domain power from the government to the landlord. Either way, tenants' rights are disregarded.
Pass 98 and see how quickly a place like Santa Ana, already being gentrified by the local government, goes to the developers when landlords clear out their buildings for the big score. If that doesn't happen, you can count on a huge increase in the number of condo units in the city, much like we did back in hometown of Somerville, MA, and Cambridge, MA prior to that when rent control was repealed.
SMS
And Prop 99 was written by people trying to stop real reform.
That is why they have people like you monitoring blogs throwing up the rent control red herring and tellin scare stories about OC which is landlocked and has nowhere to grow.
People deserve prop 98... people deserve Real protection, not the fraud of prop 99.
"They" have people "like (me)?"
Who are they? Who are people like me?
I'm new to the blogosphere so you may not be familiar with my work, but I'm a centrist. I come to my own conclusions, and I'm sorry, but I'm not convinced on 98... not even with the Chair of Yes on Prop 88 on my blog's sister site, Orange Juice.
Thanks a lot for lumping me in with the blue crowd! I'm not shilling, I just happen to believe in simple ballot initiatives so that the voters don't fall prey to the same political parlor tricks our lawmakers play on each other with riders and such. I also believe in a balance between landlord and tenant rights as I'm both a current tenant and former property manager.
When the market stabilizes I'll be looking into rental property of my own, and since I will be enjoying asset equity, a huge tax write-off, and what essentially amounts to someone else paying my mortgage, I'm not going to get greedy and raise rents unjustifiably, which I believe, in a gentrifying environment, is the wrong message to send hard-working Californians. Regrettably, many in the real estate business do not share my, well... ability to share.
SMS