re: #139 Political Atheist

California has a long history of weak executives. Here, at least in part is why.

IMO, the California GOP since 1994 has been slowly strangling itself in its quest for ideological purity. They finally managed to marginalize themselves into complete irrelevance, even with the ridiculous supermajority requirement in the Legislature.

On Schwarzeneggar, yeah, the ONLY REASON he got elected was because of the recall, because he could NEVER get nominated by the California GOP as it has existed in the 21st Century. They nominated him for reelection, because he was already Governor, but they’d never have done so otherwise.