{"id":224318,"date":"2010-01-24T18:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a807a976970b"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:51:48","slug":"schwarzenegger-leaves-california-in-worse-shape-than-when-he-arrived-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/224318","title":{"rendered":"Schwarzenegger leaves California in worse shape than when he arrived, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMAGE: Gov. Schwarzenegger, R-Calif.\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia3.msn.com\/j\/ap\/f7f1b75a-559e-42f7-b23a-d9922f9c7ab2.hmedium.jpg\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 1px solid; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 5px 5px 0pt; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 1px solid; WIDTH: 308px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid; HEIGHT: 205px\" title=\"IMAGE: Gov. Schwarzenegger, R-Calif.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember back in 2003, when voters decided Gray Davis was running the state into the ground and picked a movie superhero to lead California?<\/p>\n<p>Well, a new poll finds that Californians believe Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a mess of things.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/01\/poll-california-worse-off-under-schwarzenegger.html\">California Politics&#39; Anthony Yor<\/a>k, a majority of Californians believe California is worse off now than when Schwarzenegger took office in late 2003, a new Field Poll finds.<o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The survey found 59% of those surveyed believe the state will be in worse condition after Schwarzenegger\u2019s tenure is over. Only 7% of the registered voters surveyed <span>&#0160;<\/span>think Schwarzenegger will leave state government in better shape than he found it, when he took over&#0160;from Davis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There is more breaking politics news at The Times&#39; <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/\">state political blog including:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>&#8211;TAXES:<\/strong> Schwarzenegger has said he won\u2019t support any new broad-based taxes to close the state\u2019s $20-billion budget shortfall. But that isn\u2019t stopping Democrats from pushing ahead with plans for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>&#8211;BUDGET:<\/strong>Controller John Chiang said today that without \u201cprompt action\u201d by state leaders, come spring California will again not have enough money to pay its bills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>&#8211;BOXER: <\/strong>With Democrats increasingly anxious about this year&#39;s midterm election in the face of&#0160; stubbornly high unemployment, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today came out against a second term for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211;Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Photo: The governor with Gray Davis and Pete Wilson in 2007. Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember back in 2003, when voters decided Gray Davis was running the state into the ground and picked a movie superhero to lead California? Well, a new poll finds that Californians believe Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a mess of things. According to California Politics&#39; Anthony York, a majority of Californians believe California is worse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}