Writing at Fox & Hounds Daily, I recall how the governor ignored what proved to be good advice from a UCLA economist on how to use taxes to balance the budget.
Elsewhere, my former LA Times colleague Tim Cavanaugh has a piece in the LA Weekly in which he runs through the explanations for Schwarzenegger's failures. I'm quoted on his difficulty in dealing with Republicans.
The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger And the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy
A vivid, incisive account of Governor Schwarzenegger and his tenure in California politics, by the extraordinary reporter whose unique access and insight into Arnold has led to newsbreaking revelations.
Joe Mathews is an Irvine senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a freelance journalist, a Little League coach, and a contributing writer for the Los Angeles Times. A fourth-generation Californian who was raised in Pasadena, he also was a staff writer at the Baltimore Sun and Wall Street Journal. His work appears in the Washington Post, The New Republic, and other newspapers and magazines.
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