http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/10/03/notes100303.DTL&nl=fix(always good to read Mark's opinion on CA stuff)
Hasta La Vista, California
With Schwarzenegger as guv, CA prepares to devolve into a thick-necked, inarticulate joke
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, October 3, 2003
©2003 SF Gate
And you thought the Jesse Ventura bobblehead was bad.
All right, so a couple "major" polls show the famous thick-necked slab of Austrian meat wielding a dangerous Conan-like lead over quivering not-as-bad-as-you-think Gray Davis.
And Schwarzenegger's bouncing around like a Hummer on meth, inflicting that weird maniacal grin and massive blocklike head all over the unsuspecting media, as pretty much the entire population of even slightly aware and intelligent people in California and in fact all over the nation go, oh holy Christ, please dear God no.
This is what's about to happen. We are on the verge of electing a new governor of the largest and most powerful state in the nation, the one with the fifth largest economy in the world and the most frighteningly intricate political infrastructure and infinitely complex and delicate network of water/energy/environment/immigrant/agriculture issues in existence, just one year after electing the last one.
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