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Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom... by mullingitover on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:55PM (#30458702)
To be fair, the republican party trashed its brand so thoroughly that it essentially doesn't exist in California, so we're under one party rule. There is no other side of the aisle. It's a shame because Schwarzenegger gave the party a winning formula when he was governor, but the party swung so far off the rails that his centrism makes him a bolshevik to the party as it exists now. One party rule isn't good, but we don't have any sane alternatives here.
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Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 24, 2022 @04:27PM (#30460535)
> It's a shame because Schwarzenegger gave the party a winning formula when he was governor

Yes, but “find a political cypher of a celebrity, run in an irregular election leveraging a crisis created by Republican state and federal policies, and appoint an listen to a lot of establishment Dems as advisers while ignoring Republican Party insiders and donors because you don't need them once you have the dual advantages of celebrity and incumbency and don't care about the party as such” isn't really a structurally-repeatable strategy.

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Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom... by quartesixte on Saturday February 26, 2022 @01:44AM (#30475650)
Not just any celebrity—Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Man those were some crazy times.

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