"Hasta la vista, baby", aims to tell the Prison Guards Union to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger through a process of gathering signatures that would allow them to call a special election to dismiss the governor of the state.
In 2003, Schwarzenegger agreed to the supreme magistracy of the state through a special election that dismissed the then governor, Gray Davis. The platform used to dismiss Davis was the delay in approving the budget in 2002, the huge budget deficit in California, an attempt to increase taxes and a multimillion-dollar campaign fund-raising for political purposes.
This year, Schwarzenegger faces a similar situation. After more than 70 days has not yet approved the state budget, the state faces a shortfall of 17200 million dollars, the governor hopes that the Legislature will approve the temporary increase of a penny in sales tax during a period of three years, and additionally has exceeded the capacity breadth fundraising campaign of his predecessor. To that we add the fact that according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California, Schwarzenegger has a disapproval rate of over 56% of its management.
Based on this precedent, what could be considered reasonable to proceed with the dismissal of governor?
No and a thousand times no, in the same manner as the dismissal of Davis was a mistake, what would this time dismissing Schwarzenegger. The problems in California are complex and go through a series of factors of economic character, legal and structural, and, above all, by the unwillingness of political actors both Democrats and Republicans to put aside partisan positions and find a midpoint in making better decisions.
Poor Arnold is learning, in a manner difficult to solve the problems of a state as large and complex as California is not concerned only with good intentions. In the past I have been a permanent critic of Schwarzenegger, and I object to be sacrificed to the less privileged segments to balance the budget as the governor seeks, but get rid of the executive government is not going to solve the crisis. Anyone who comes to the post will end sooner or later face the same problems that affected Davis and now affecting the "Terminator".
Additionally, I am afraid that the interest of the Prison Guards Union of California has nothing to do with a desire to make things better in the state, with regard interest weaken the governor to expire yielding to the demands of this trade union body in a series of demands that Schwarzenegger has refused to meet in the past.
This request for dismissal of governor Schwarzenegger, who just began, could become a snowball that is what leads ahead if other lobbyists in the state fall into the temptation to support this initiative fetched, and if voters are left tricked by an apparent interest of the Prison Guards Union of California to resolve the current state of things, when in fact only being concerned in pushing its agenda.
