Save Our State (California)

Mark Chapin Johnson explains why we need to support Schwarzenegger:

.... he may end up as political road kill if the well-funded special interests (teachers unions, public-employee unions, prison guards and others) gain much more traction with their constant barrage of anti-Arnold hit pieces on TV. Typical California voters on both sides of the aisle are tragically ignorant of the true financial circumstances of our state -- and they are the ones who, in their frustration, will vote for or against a myriad of confusing initiatives that will go on our ballot soon.

These various and competing measures will only further confuse and inflame the electorate over the months to come. The obfuscation of the real added economic burden of these measures will be almost total, and many voters will go to the polls voting for the "panacea" of their choice: Surcharge the rich to fund new pre-K education programs, at the cost of billions of new tax dollars infused into the already arguably least effective and completely broken K-12 education system in the U.S.; or add a higher tax rate to ensure the continuation of defined-benefit retirement plans for teachers, police, fire and all government employees that are far more lucrative than anything most American workers in the "real" world will be receiving in their golden years.

Read the whole article here.