Governor Schwarzenegger’s came into Fresno yesterday and outlined his aggressive support of vocational education. He laid out a comprehensive policy agenda which you can read here.
That said, it was his trip over to the editorial board at the Fresno Bee that has been burning up the blogosphere. While meeting with the Bee folks, when the subject of Rob Reiner came up, for the first time, the Governor was not silent. He said that he has no plans to appoint a new Chairman to the Children and Families First Commission and thus ‘retire’ Reiner. You can read more about this on the main page. Rob Reiner is one of the few people engaged in politics on the left who literally makes me ill. His ideology and view of the proper role of government is so expansive that unnerves me to no end that he continues to play any kind of public-policy role anywhere. This doesn’t even take into account all of the recent revelations about his allegedly directing the use of public funds to promote his centralized pre-school bureaucracy tax increase plan. Reiner is being no friend to the Governor on this, and I write about that on the FR weblog.
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March 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
Arnold just gave the base another reason to stay home this November by him not firing Rob Reiner. This is madness.
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:00 am
Reiner stays – AS
How bizarre of the Gov. And what a total lack of leadership. If one of his appointees had spent “hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and … much of that money on dubious advertising campaigns that use tax dollars to promote changes in public policy”, as Dan Weintraub blogged today on Terminating Meathead, not\ does anyome think that Arnold would not have fired his appointee?? The legislature would have demanded it, hearings would have been already held, even government -employee-for-life Lockyer would have figured a way to recuse himself but have his department open an investigation.
It’s not just protecting a friend; that’s a charade for public consumption, another attempt to make him look like a “good guy”. It’s a failure to lead. Another terrible decision, another failure. First the Bond fizzle, now this. The Schwarzenegger/Kennedy team is 0 for 2.