He came as an action star, he is a lame duck: Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced his last day as governor of California. In eight years, Arnie-term crisis of the state slipped deeper into the malaise - as once the beacon of hope fail so dramatically? Sacramento - On Sunday, met Arnold Schwarzenegger nor a decision as governor of California: The 63-year-old reduced the penalty for Sara Kruzan.It had 1994 at the age of 16, attacked and killed her former pimp - and it got a life sentence without the possibility to free it again. Schwarzenegger called the sentence excessive and reduced it. The prison is now at least 25 years to life imprisonment. Now is the time from when Governor Schwarzenegger: The 3rd January is his last day in office.
His Democratic successor, Jerry Brown leaves behind a difficult legacy of the Republicans: a state within a financial emergency with a budget deficit of about $ 20 billion. The budget hole is more than twice as deep as the one that Schwarzenegger had taken his own time from his extremely unpopular predecessor, Gray Davis.
Here, the native of Austria, had promised the people of his adopted country much: He would first of all restore the household budget, stimulate the economy, create jobs. "Here is my plan," he said then. "We check everything, looking in all the books and then we will stop the crazy spending any money.
If you want a change in this country, then follow me." The voters followed him. "But today, his promise, only a thin echo", recently summed up the "Mercury News". A columnist for the Los Angeles Times called it a "action star with a clay feet." Also in opinion polls, Schwarzenegger as bad: He is leaving his post as governor with an approval, which is barely half as high as in early 2004 - and as bad as the Democrats Davis.
This was accused carried the most populous U.S. state with almost 40 million inhabitants to the brink of ruin to have. The many are saying today about Schwarzenegger. His main achievements: is the environmental policy for Brown is really only one consolation: I can hardly go down even more in California.
The state suffers from an outdated property tax system. Schwarzenegger had promised to change that. Moreover, the recession has hit California particularly hard. Here was the highest number of foreclosures since the collapse of the housing market, and there are twelve percent, the highest unemployment rate.
Brown was not a "Mister Universe" or "Terminator", but he has a lot of missionary zeal, as he has himself formulated. The difference between him and Schwarzenegger is great. Brown once studied Zen Buddhism, helped Mother Teresa in Calcutta and eats vegetarian. He was a staunch anti-war Vietnam and enjoy living modestly.
And he brings a lot of political experience. As Schwarzenegger in 1982 another as "Conan the Barbarian" acted, Brown had been almost his second term as California governor behind him. When he took the time, he was the youngest, now he is the eldest at 72 years. Last Brown was California's Attorney General, before the Mayor of Oakland.
Environmental policy is also under Brown in California have high priority. In fact, Schwarzenegger has achieved a "green" governor, the most and one of his greatest achievements, he celebrated in 2006 with the signing of a law for strict reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases. And what about Schwarzenegger? A return to the big screen, he apparently does not.
The "Daily Variety" he said recently that he saw no problem with. "It's like cycling or skiing. You go up on it and have the feeling that since the last time, no time has passed."
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