The push to recall Arnold Schwarzenegger -- pure politics?

“Catastrophic leadership failings and inept management, including, but not limited to, repeated acts of untrustworthiness ... soliciting and accepting special interest money at levels never before seen ... betraying voter trust and mortgaging our children’s future.”

Richard Nixon? Bill Clinton? Idi Amin?

No, the paragraph above refers to ... (answer after the jump)

The People’s Governor, as Arnold Schwarzenegger describes himself. The less flattering bio published above is from the California Correctional Peace Officers Assn.’s “notice of intention” to circulate petitions to recall him from office. The notice was served on Schwarzenegger’s office at the Capitol Tuesday, a spokeswoman said, and his political operation was in combat mode, portraying the recall drive as a power move by a union angry that he would not deliver a sweetheart contract.

But don't take it too seriously.

“This is a special interest political play, and I think everyone recognizes it,” Schwarzenegger advisor Adam Mendelsohn told reporters on a conference call. Several groups close to the governor -- the California Chamber of Commerce, the California Business Roundtable and the National Federation of Independent Business -- also released statements opposing the recall.

--Michael Rothfeld

Comments

[Sam Morris]

What is amazing about the California budget crisis is that no one on either side of the political fence is talking about curtailing the culture of imprisonment that is costing the California tax payers so much. The Republican governor is seeking to solve the issue through wage cutting and union breaking, while a more rational response would be to examine why the prisons have such large populations. Communitng the sentences of non violent victimless crimes would reduce the cost of prisons much more that impoverishing prison gaurds, which are a staple of the middle class in such counties as Del Norte.

[MontyMoose]

RIDICULOUS
Recall will not change the Congressional impass!
When there is a war of ideology no one wins... Logic is put aside and reasonableness if thrown out.
WE MUST have a budget. The longer we put it off the more the State owes and borrowing is more costly!

IS THE GOVERNOR empowered to call our legislature into session and not allow them to leave until a solution is found?
Where are the leaders who care more about the people who are losing everything and the businesses that are folding because of the impass.

AM I WRONG?

Being threatened by any group such as the California Correctional Peace Officers Assoc, is tantamount to BLACKMAIL and i hope the Governor has the intestinal fortitude to tell then to get lost.
Its an attempt at intimidation. The Correction Officers are not better than the Iranian Govt using threats.

[Ben Marion]

Gov Scwarzenegger has consistently betrayed hie party doctrin of american traditions of conservitism, and has given cause to limit holding political office of any kind to native born americans.

[Dyscrasy]

What does Arnold's place of birth have to do with his politics? He's an American citizen, having gone through the proper channels to earn it I might add (unlike a lot of California's residents, but that's another topic)

Nobody agrees with another person's politics 100%, but the fact that he is Austrian-born has NOTHING to do with it and labels you bigoted.

He's working on it. I was hired for a State job but have not started, 2 months later, because of the hiring freeze. Yeah, it's irritating, but try getting our extremely divided partisan system to come together for anything these days. He's simply waiting for the Democrats and Republicans to agree on something and present a 'do-able' budget.

But it has nothing to do with where he was born. That was a jackass comment.

[Maggie]

Kudos to our governor. Special interests have had their way in our state for too long. Finally somebody yelled Basta! Folks can see this "push to recall" for what it is... pure, unadulterated union poilitcs.

[GAKJA]

Im for the Recall of Governer Arnold S., You People in California our showing you got Might,Strength and Integirity and Charater, Im very Astonished and Proud of the Voters,Petitioners,as A People standing for Your real American Founding Fathers Colours as Real and Steadfast Americans against the Governer,Mayor,Judge,Senater or who ever if giving no other choice.

That does not Deliever and Act upon his Promises and Oaths he was put in to do, but instead Betrays and Decieves it's Peoples of California in this case, an same goes for the others states in the U.S. if it would do the same,I know if I could I would do the same As A Voter and Citizen.

[The Paleo Conservatist]

Total Recall 2009!
http://paleoconservatist.blogspot.com/2009/03/total-recall-2009.html

Let's get it done.

[Lloyd]

I just think he should not even been elected the first time. I believe he did not run doing the normal election,because he's a businessman, and did not want to lose his money making his B movie. His Rich Republications friend push for a recall election to vote him in. He lost on all his special elections costing us tax payers money.
I can't believe some voters voted him in for a second term.
Just now during this last stupid election, where was he Kissing Ass in Washington.
What else is there to do. When the so call leaders are not doing their job they should be fired like anyone in the real job world.
Like anything now start at the top and get rid of the ones who are responsible.

[bubbles]

Only native born Americans should hold political office because it takes at least one generation to assimilate. Our Founding Fathers understood that. Arnold does not have democratic American values, but hierarchical, authoritarian values from WII Austria.

Arnold has no experience running anything and it should come as no surprise that he is totally incompetent. When he came here he was a nobody and a nothing. He found opportunities here that he could not have found anywhere else, and look how he pays us back.

What a nightmare for the great state of California!