On the first day after the primary, the two gubenatorial candidates struck different chords. For his part, Phil Angelides stuck to his principles that he ran on during the primary.
On his first day as the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, Phil Angelides made it clear Wednesday he wasn’t about to move to the political center in his bid to defeat Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Angelides…sounded the same core Democratic ideas he used to defeat moderate Steve Westly in Tuesday’s primary. He stood by his plan to raise taxes on upper-income earners and corporations to pay for schools. He pledged to work for universal health care and cut university tuition. (SacBee 6/8/06)
So, Arnold responds with his own thoroughly considered plans for his next term. Ok, I couldn’t keep that going. The truth: Arnold’s response basically consisted of: I’m the incumbent, and you’re not…nany, nany, boo-boo.
“The other side is talking about the future. We are building the future,” Schwarzenegger told a crowd of 200 people on the banks of the Sacramento River at Redding’s Turtle Bay Exploration Park. “The other side is talking about solving all the problems California has. We are solving the problems.” (SacBee 6/8/06)
And when asked about health care, does he give the voters any real answers? No, he responds by saying that they will know all his plans in the next State of the State Speech, which, of course, is after the election. That’s great Arnold. Yeah, we don’t need to know your ideas, we’ll just trust you to think of something really wonderful after the election. That worked really well for us last time. I mean you came up with all those good ideas, like say…all those great special election props that went so well for you. No thanks.
We need real answers for the very real questions facing the state, not some promises to come up with something good.