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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (460478)	3/2/2009 9:28:09 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574589

From Newsmax: Schwarzenegger Mulled Leaving GOP California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and several advisers a few months ago discussed whether he should follow the move of his friend Michael Bloomberg, the New York City mayor who left the Republican Party to become an independent. But in the end, Schwarzenegger and crew decided that Californians already saw him as independent of the GOP, and there would be no point in a switch, according to Schwarzenegger biographer Joe Mathews, author of “The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy.” The governor’s recent battle with GOP lawmakers over efforts to balance the budget, and his criticism of Republicans who opposed President Barack Obama’s stimulus package, are only the most recent examples of Arnold’s alienation from mainstream Republicans: When he served as President George H.W. Bush’s fitness czar, Schwarzenegger was critical of the administration’s education policy, Mathews reported on The Daily Beast Web site. In 1998, Schwarzenegger publicly criticized the Republican Party for leading the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Schwarzenegger was a tepid supporter of George W. Bush in 2004, and agreed only at the last minute to deliver a speech at the GOP convention, according to Mathews. And he made only one appearance with Bush during the campaign. Four years later, Schwarzenegger skipped the GOP convention altogether. As governor, Schwarzenegger has appointed about the same number of Democrats as Republicans to state offices, and his vow in his second inaugural address to govern as a “post-partisan” angered some Republicans who had worked for his re-election. Republicans, for their part, have routinely opposed Schwarzenegger’s budgets, torpedoed his effort to establish universal health coverage in the state, and fought Schwarzenegger initiatives on prisons, water, the environment, and infrastructure investment. “The most consequential political divide in America’s largest state,” Mathews notes, “is not between Democrats and Republicans but between the centrist GOP governor and his own party.”