Ads are now running in California supporting a constitutional amendment allowing Arnold Schwarzanegger and other foreign-born citizens to run for President. I'm all for the amendment, but if tied too directly to Schwarzanegger, it will become too political and die. The group running the ads is called Amend for Arnold & Jen, referring to Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat who is the Canadian-born governor of Michigan. However, it's clearly driven by the founder's adulation of Arnold (she is a "major Schwarzenegger campaign donor who is helping pay for the ads and created a companion Web site"). Also, the ad is hideously amateurish, and doesn't even explicitly say what it's supporting. The best idea I've heard is to to have it not take effect for a decade or more to decouple it from Schwarzanegger and Granholm. Otherwise, don't look for this to happen anytime soon.
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