Poll: Calif. Vote Don't Support Bond Plan

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-California-Poll.html

Poll: Calif. Vote Don't Support Bond Plan
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: February 20, 2004


Filed at 5:43 a.m. ET

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A $15 million bond measure touted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as the way for California to avoid a financial meltdown isn't supported by a majority of voters, a statewide poll shows.

Thirty-eight percent approve of the measure and 41 percent oppose it, according the Public Policy Institute of California poll. Twenty-one percent are undecided

..read it Gropinator...

Maybe the voters expect Gropinator to live up to what he told them before the election.

[rfranklin]

1. Shouldn't that be $15 BILLION?

$15 million isn't enough to keep Asshole Shwarzennegger in cigars for a year.

[Florida_Geek]

2. Hey I just Cut and Paste them as they are

:evilgrin: PS Headline also should be Voters not Vote

[no_hypocrisy]

3. "If you don't pass my bond proposal, I will have to terminate the state."

Oh well. Voters of California, you wanted a Hollywood action hero. Enjoy yourselves.

[whatelseisnew]

4. Don't worry it will be 'to close to call' and diebold will pass it

[fizzana]

5. Unfortunately, the undecided number is 29% and with the

entire stare Democratic establishment backing him those numbers are likely to change. They're also spending a lot more money than the anti Prop 57 & 58 people are.

Diane Feinstein, among others, is actively campaigning for the bond.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. I am inclined to vote No

Arnie is going to have to give better reasons than he has so far to convince me to vote for this. It looks like borrowing money to pay off the interest on borrowed money. He says "It's a crisis." That's something we already know. Is this the only way out of it? Or even the best way?

Before the recall election, I said it would take a combination of tax increases and budget cuts -- many of them painful -- to solve this problem. Arnie said he could do it without raising taxes and I still don't believe him.

[DK666]

7. What really pissed me off is

There was no planning he wants 15 billion and he also wants to pass a ballot measure that keeps future governors from doing the same thing and hes labeling it fiscal responsibility. What a crock of shit. He is doing nothing to increase jobs (i.e. tax base). He shot off his mouth to get elected and all he can really do is master the 1 liners he is a lame duck.

[Paulie]

8. Who would buy the bonds?

Isn't Cali like a short hair from having a junk bond rating? So the interest rate on that 15 Billion is what, 10%? Or the 29% penalty rate????

[Isere]

9. I am voting NO!

Tough noogies for the Guv!

[shanti]

10. yep

me too, i will approve NOTHING the gropenator throws out there.

[mike_c]

11. I'm certainly voting NO....

Arnold (and the legislature) needs to find an actual way out of this jam rather than simply foisting it onto the next generation-- and later governments-- to solve.

[David__77]

12. NO! NO! NO!

This must be defeated. It is fiscally insane. It would not surprise me if we saw deficit spending every single year of this guy's administration, which will hopefully be as shortlived as possible.