Published in Esquire's February "Restart" issue, on sale soon
ESQUIRE: You campaigned as a reformer. Eight years later, were you?
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: I went in thinking, I'm not going into office to accept the status quo — otherwise there's no reason for me to run, I just ought to do another movie. I'm going to fight the battles that people normally don't want to fight.
ESQ: Like what?
AS: In 2005 they spent $160 million against me because I wanted to reform pensions, education, and the budget system. And now finally we got those things. It took seven years, but we've finally approved a solar-power initiative that will generate 3,000 megawatts of renewable energy. In 2006 we passed AB32, which will reduce greenhouse-gas levels to 1990 levels. It took years to do those things, but I fought and fought and fought. We got the pension reform, we got the budget reform, we did the things that we wanted to do...
Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/politics-rss/arnold-schwarzenegger-politics-0211?src=rss
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