I'm Done With Arnold

I really did give him a chance to earn my support this year, but the last few weeks have just been too much to stomach anymore. I understand most Republicans will still vote for him and that is there right, but I don't have to enable him anymore. I feel like a battered wife who has finally made the decision to leave an abusive relationship and seek counsel and comfort with others of like mind. His sellout of Republican values has been breathtaking the last few weeks. He signed one of the biggest job killer bills in the history of California in the Greenhouse Gas Bill. Maybe he's secretly trying to kill all jobs in the state with this bill and therefore dry up the day labor jobs and making the illegals go to other states to look for work(I highly doubt it). He also pushed through a another job killer with the minimum wage increase. He repudiated his past support for Prop 187 and wants it both ways on the illegal immigration debacle. Instead of reigning in spending like he promised, he has put a slate of bonds on the Prop ballot that will indebt/leverage this state into debt for years into the future. Just vote NO on every bond measure. He signed a bill that will ban private schools from accepting state grant money because of the schools deeply held moral beliefs i.e believing that homosexuality is immoral. These are just a few of the things I ticked off of the top of my head. There are many others as well.

Where does that leave me? Well I am going to work my ass off to recruit volunteers and GOTV for all the downticket and local races. Tomorrow the GOP Lt. Gov nominee Tom McClintock is going to be over at our Irvine GOP headquarters and I intend to go there and work for real Republicans to get elected. I'm heartened to also see that other OC bloggers are questioning their loyalties to the Governor. None other than Mr. Jubal himself Matt Cunningham is on the fence about supporting the Gov. It takes a lot of gonads to call out the nominee of our party for Governor, but that is what leadership is all about. I'm sure Matt is going to catch a lot of flak for this and could risk getting cut off from future consulting business by taking this stand. Kudos to you Matt.