My love affair with Governor Arnold ends

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...1557EDT0033.DTL

 

The bills awaiting votes include Sen. Gil Cedillo's legislation to allow illegal immigrants to obtain California driver's licenses. Gov. Gray Davis signed a Cedillo bill last year giving immigrants that right, but it was repealed after Davis was recalled.

 

Cedillo has been trying to negotiate a compromise with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the deal seems to be stalled because of the Republican governor's insistence on some indication on the license that the driver is in the country illegally.

 

Supporters of Cedillo's legislation say that's a scarlet-letter-type distinction that could lead to discrimination against the license holder.

 

Darnit, Arnold. Why are you trying to break what sealed the deal? We shouldn't be catering to these people or seeing how we can make their lives any better for them, becuase they don't belong here and are taking away attention from others, including legal immigrants.

 

This decision was what convinced me that Davis was done for and it was time to get someone else, and now he's willing to do it too if he can get a big "Illegal" sticker on the card. Feh.

 

 

And amusingly, that sidebar box that I used to quote from the 2003 edition California DMV rulebook, that box that's been there since I was a kid and studying how to work a car, that says "DRIVING IS A PRIVILEGE, NOT A RIGHT", is gone in this year's edition. Go fig.

 

Just pardon me while I vent a bit.... Some Republican he was.

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I'm starting to sympathise more and more with Pat Buchanan's point of view from his "Mexifornia" rants in AmConMag.

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Careful, I once said Buchanan said something that wasn't loony once and got toasted by the left (I think? It was over a year ago) and the right that I somehow supported his whole platform for it.

 

But still, how is that special ID going to change anything? It's not like metro officers are doing anything to care about illegal immigration in the first place. Maybe the CHP on the highways might give more of a hoot, but they report to the Governor and he doesn't seem very bent on enforcing immigration law if he's proposing this.

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JotW, I must ask, why did you have any trust in this guy anyways? Please don't tell me you voted for him? How could you not have seen exactly where this was all leading. The man basically had no credentials besides money and support from a party that were just happy to run someone with an ® next to his name.

 

He has already basically given the energy companies a pass on their debt to California, and I seem to remember him telling Californians that when Bush visited CA a few months ago he was going to "demand that the feds give back money owed to CA" That was surely a success......

 

The sad thing is that so little has changed in CA, he will probably win again if he runs, due to nothing go incredibly worse, except for certain horrible budget cuts that could have easily been avoided, but most people don't pay attention to that.

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JotW, I must ask, why did you have any trust in this guy anyways? Please don't tell me you voted for him?

Well, it seemed better than the porn star, the electrician named Michael Jackson, and Gallagher.

 

  How could you not have seen exactly where this was all leading.  The man basically had no credentials besides money and support from a party that were just happy to run someone with an ® next to his name. 

And for the most part, I thought he was doing pretty good as a moderate, which is where I lay politically (despite my more vicious posts here, which are combination of not liking certain posters nor the dirty side of politics.) I figured, however, he wouldn't be quite so moderate on this issue because, well, we're pretty bad off in the illegals department and while you can't turn back the clock, things won't get better without some reform.

 

McClintock seemed to be heading in that direction but there's no way I can vote in good concience for a guy who would veto civil unions.

 

and I seem to remember him telling Californians that when Bush visited CA a few months ago he was going to "demand that the feds give back money owed to CA"  That was surely a success......

That's pretty f'n ridiculous, I'll admit. So was his trip to Las Vegas (where his promotional moving van accidentally died while traveling up the Strip) so he could beg companies who moved away to Nevada to please please come back. The "I'll get the money back" thing was predictable, the NV one was embarassing.

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How exactly do you "compromise" on something like this? You either give illegal aliens a DL or you don't.

 

EDIT: Wait a second, I re-read that passage -- the DL would say the person's an illegal?!?!?!

 

No matter how f'd up my state's pols may be, California always makes me feel better...

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Ha! I warned you all about Arnold. That's why I voted for McClintock, so that when all of this Gray Davis version 2.0 stuff started reappearing I wouldn't feel like I was swerved by a Republican turned heel.

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If we start giving them DL i am leaving this state, and the sad thing is i voted for Arnold to wish i dident but i did.