Schwarzenegger’s shortcomings soften support

Five funny reasons why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
shouldn’t be re-elected for a second term in 2006:

5. An opinion poll in a recent Los Angeles Times article found
that the governor’s approval rating has fallen to 38
percent.

With such a dismal approval rating, Schwarzenegger makes Bush
look like a popular, twice democratically elected leader.

4. In a recent Los Angeles Times article, Schwarzenegger was
quoted as praising the over $160 billion generated revenue for the
Golden State from California’s trade relations with
Mexico.

With such a crucial source of income for the money-strapped
state, the “Terminator” should be careful about
threatening to close the border unless he wants to send the
state’s economy on a downward spiral, to be outdone only by
Tijuana’s tourist-dependent economy.

3. According to the Sacramento Bee, Schwarzenegger threatens to
veto State Sen. Gilbert Cedillo’s driver’s license
bill, SB 60, which is aimed at allowing undocumented immigrants to
legally obtain special driver’s licenses.

In response to this anti-immigrant attack, undocumented
immigrants failed to show up to work, leaving the state of
California in disarray from the lack of nannies, housekeepers and
gardeners.

2. While the current governor’s approval rating is at an
all-time low, former California Governor Pete Wilson was re-elected
in 1994 even though his approval ratings dipped as low as 31
percent a year prior to the election ““ even lower than Gov.
Schwarzenegger’s current numbers ““ according to the
Sacramento Bee.

As a result, desperate to maintain a Republican governor in
California, state GOP leaders abandon Schwarzenegger in favor for
the retired Pete Wilson, prompting the ex-governor to exclaim,
“Just when I think I’m out, they keep pulling me back
in.”

1. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Schwarzenegger has
once again expressed his support for the Minuteman Project, a group
that patrols the U.S.-Mexico border.

With his support for vigilante groups and probability for
re-election slim, they don’t call him the
“Minuteman” for nothing.

Huerta is a graduate student in the UCLA Department of Urban
Planning.