Dan Walters: Schwarzenegger to depart in frustration
Posted at 12:06 AM on Sunday, Aug. 08, 2010
- dwalters@sacbee.com
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Arnold Schwarzenegger came into the governorship seven years ago believing that he could succeed where his predecessors had failed in dealing with California's thorniest issues.
He'll leave office in a few months, having learned the hard way that California is difficult, and perhaps impossible, to govern.
Its ever-expanding economic and cultural complexity collides with a politics so ossified and diffused, with so many officeholders and institutions sharing authority, that no one is truly accountable for outcomes.
Schwarzenegger offered his take on that dysfunction during a presentation in Fresno the other day, a truncated version of which follows:
"There is no one in the state that tries to derail the state or state government, but over the
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