Bill Bradley

The once soaring action governor keeps running into trouble. Although he is unveiling some progressive environmental positions this week, he remains mired in a swamp of his own creation, his ultrahyped but misfiring “Year of Reform.” Back from another out-of-state fund-raising swing, Arnold Schwarzenegger finds his California contributions, according to......

The latest from the slumping Team Arnold: The Governator may or may not take a swing at that special election he’s been warming up for. Cleanup political consultant Dick Morris may be nibbling on Arnold’s ear but not on Maria’s. And the team managers, “whoever they are,” are now claiming......

Too bad there’s never an egg timer around when you need one. Arnold Schwarzenegger cooked his political future some more this week, recklessly endorsing the anti-illegal-immigrant Minuteman Project vigilantes and helplessly watching as a public poll showed him losing a third of his popularity in three months. Maria Shriver was......

Arnold Schwarzenegger could well be a one-term governor. Unbelievable as that seemed at the beginning of the year, which the action superstar entered as arguably the most popular governor in California history, it may end up that way. Suddenly happy Democrats, gathered last weekend at the L.A. Convention Center for......

Bipartisanship was “the wave of the future” last fall. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and first lady Maria Shriver talked it up at private dinner parties. In conversations, the governor took pains to learn if he was “coming off as a bipartisan guy.” It was a staple of his speeches. That was......

The fellow waving the “Arnold ’06” sign seemed familiar. And a little embarrassed. A conservative activist who works for a Republican politician, he had demonstrated against the actor in September 2003 when Schwarzenegger made his maiden voyage to a state Republican convention in Los Angeles as a surprise aspirant for......

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget has been called a “stillborn” document by Democrats, but the real problem, to borrow Alan Greenspan’s phrase about the stock-market bubble, might be the governor’s “irrational exuberance.” Even some Republicans in this town aren’t thrilled about the spending mess. “Arnold should have raised taxes last......

Photo by Ted Soqui 1. Raise Taxes He might have done it this year, but he got some financial help from a timely windfall of tax revenues and voter-approved restructuring of the state’s debt using bonds. But without another miracle or cuts that no one in either party wants to......

The political reform agenda Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger emphasized in his campaign has waxed and waned, but one thing does seem constant. Top Schwarzenegger political consultant Mike Murphy appears not to have been fazed by an earlier embarrassment involving the appearance of impropriety. Now, with Team Arnold on the verge of......

For more than three months, chronic reports have promised an imminent deal between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration and Indian casino tribes that would provide new revenue to the state’s reeling general fund and allow expansion of tribal casinos. Each time the reports have been wrong. Since the governor has $500......