(So very very much Schwarzenegger backpedaling as the election nears. – promoted by jsw)
I’m about as white as they come, being of Scandinavian descent, but I do read a little Spanish. So when I browsed to La Opinion this morning this was the headline:
“Admite erró con la 187” with a giant picture of Ahhnold underneath. Now, I don’t read every paper in the state every day, but I do read “Rough & Tumble” and none of its headlines covered this. I will update if I missed it.
Goofily translated by Google for Gringos here.
More below.
I wonder if Arnold would have bothered with this now that the polls show him with an 8 point lead? Anyway, I think it’s interesting that this is in the Spanish media, not the English, and I wonder what the Wingers would think if it were.
Proposition 187 is sort of a reprise of 1950’s race based New Deal exclusionism. The wingers hate social services in general, and, well, they’ll be damned if they’re going to let dirty illegals have them, right? And they can appeal to poor whites by making them feel less privileged than the new comers to get enough votes to put it over the top.
So, anyway, I’m just wondering how much play this gets in the English media and how effectively this can be used to erode Arnold’s Republican support.
UPDATE: Capital Notes has this story now. Beat you by an hour, Myers. (=
UPDATE II: Someone puh-leeze tell me there will be a “Arnold: I was for Prop 187 before I was against it” commercial.