Arnold Schwarzenegger in Real Change, by Rep. Newt Gingrich (R, GA)


On Jobs: CA Governor just presides over lifetime union bureaucracies

Unions are so powerful in California that even popular governors do not effectively control the state government. The real power lies in the unions, which have invested more and more in politics as their popularity among workers has declined. They have replaced worker representation at the local level with political power in state capitals.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the most charismatic California governor since Ronald Reagan, does not run California government. He presides over lifetime bureaucracies defined and dominated by unions and interest groups. When the former movie star staked his political capital on passing a series of initiatives to tame California's public employee unions, he lost and they won. In Sacramento, the head of the prison guards' union is more powerful than the governor.

Source: Real Change, by Newt Gingrich, p. 33 Dec 18, 2007

The above quotations are from Real Change:
From the World that Fails to the World that Works
, by Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
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