Arnold Takes On Sacramento



In yesterday's State of the State, Governor Schwarzenegger officially took up the mantle of radical centrist reform: Columnist Dan Walters used the term centrist, and his colleague Daniel Weintraub called his reforms radical -- but both saw it as our best (and perhaps last) chance for improved governance.

I agree. In fact, Arnold appears to have adopted all five items from my recommended agenda -- which admittedly says more about my perceptiveness than my influence. Fiscal, Educational, Energy, Electoral and Penal reform are after all pretty obvious issues (though I did overlook pension reform). True, he doesn't go quite as far as I would on the last two, but that's understandable given the size of the fight ahead of him. I do wonder whether some of my ideas like automated redistricting would make it an easier sell, but he's so radical already (by Sacramento standards) that anything more innovative would probably fry people's brains...

Posted: Thu - January 6, 2005 at 06:28 AM        

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