It was a mild observation and you're doing an analytical study. I'm to busy to play along.
But if you really interested, and have the time... > OK, local government. Do you mean state government here? (or can I assume > this as a set to work from) Yes, governors, mayors, state congress, senate > And by "lean liberal", what do you mean? elected officials are democrats? > which officials? state house, legislature, governor? Yes. But as I said Arnold was a conservative republican and the state was recovering. Then he started leaning away from conservatism and the state started getting in trouble again. I'm vague because I haven't followed his policies closely. But the more I hear about Arnold's shift the more I read about CA's problems. > Leadership of the state seems to imply governors? Yes, Mayors as we drill down. Could even apply to senators and congress. But I haven't thought that through. > And by "budget problems", do you mean budget shortfalls? (less money > coming in than going out), or do you mean higher budgets, or what? I mean we need to raise taxes and cut programs to make up for the new programs added. > To translate into something I can look at, are you saying that: > States with Democratic governors have more budget shortfalls than > Republican governors? No, it's not just balancing the budget. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:279323 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
