The governor’s finally launched his own television campaign – spending his lagging political capital to explain to Californians why he’s wasted millions in taxpayer dollars on this off year travesty of an election. One of the ads, seemingly titled “package” by the Schwarzenegger campaign, explains why Arnold thinks you should vote for them. We thought we would help them get their facts straight:

You know the special election is more important than I thought. Making new teachers work successfully for five years before they get tenure and a job for life is a good idea.

It’s a bad idea. Proposition 74 will make it harder for our schools to attract the talented new educators that we need to strengthen California schools. Teachers don’t have a job for life. They have the right to due process that keeps overzealous bureaucrats from unjustly firing educators who’ve spoken up for kids, given tough grades, or advocated for better classroom conditions. The current system already allows schools to dismiss teachers who don’t measure up.

Stopping government labor unions from taking workers money for politics without their permission makes sense.

The Supreme Court assured that workers who don’t want their organization dues spent on politics can opt out, and not pay the money. Proposition 75 just adds additional paperwork to a system that already works – it’s unnecessary, and unfairly targets only our police, firefighters, nurses, and other public employees.

Controlling spending to end state deficits and ballance the budget is better than raising our taxes.

The governor likes to threaten Californians with higher taxes – but he’s really only interested in grabbing power so he can unilaterally cut vital services and school funding and give big tax cuts to his wealthy backers.

Having independent judges draw legislative districts instead of the politicians is better for us voters.

Arnold’s plan for redistricting takes the responsibility for drawing legislative boundaries away from your elected representatives, and gives it to his political appointees. How is that better for California voters?

Lets face it Sacramento is screwed up, anything we can do to change it – I’m for.

The changes the governor is proposing don’t fix anything. Sacramento is screwed up because instead of working with the legislature to enact real reforms, the governor wants us to do his job for him. We all want to fix what’s wrong in Sacramento – but the Governor’s special interest election will just create more problems, and cost taxpayers millions.

Arnold’s package isn’t what he wants you to think it is. It’s just another political power grab.