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...think about the possible obstacles to getting these things done this year, the word Democratic doesn't come to mind." says Fabian Nunez, state assembly speaker, who so far finds little to object to in Schwarzenegger's agenda. "We established a great working relationship with the Governor last year and I don't see why 2007 should be any different...
...differentiate himself from a boss who, whatever his present weaknesses, has been a phenomenal success as a politician, and with whom he has few serious policy disagreements. "Obviously, Brown has to have an agenda both of continuity and of change to succeed," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, a Labour-affiliated advocacy group. "Labour has had the most successful left-of-center government in 50 years, so successful that it has converted the Conservative Party into speaking its language of reform." But British voters loathe divided parties. Blair pointedly started his statement by "apologiz(ing) on behalf...
...ethnic minorities instead of old Tory standards like immigrant bashing and tax cutting. A recent survey shows the Tories would beat Labour if a general election were held now, 37% to 31%. "Blair's legacy is also Cameron's Conservatives," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour-affiliated Fabian Society. "The Tories' shift is really New Labour's moment of victory...
...opinion leaders, readers of the Sun tabloid, readers of the "quality" dailies - no more than 25% of any group wants to dump the royals. Even after a decade of tumult for the Windsors, 68% of Britons want to retain them. "That's astonishing," says Sunder Katwala, head of the Fabian Society, a think tank affiliated with the Labour Party. "It represents an absolute failure for British republicanism," to which he is instinctively sympathetic. In fact, there's no real debate at all on the future of the monarchy in Britain. Republicans want to abolish it, so won't discuss reform...
...previously borrowed to close the budget gap. He would finance his public-works projects not with higher taxes but with a combination of bond sales and freeway tolls. Most startling, Schwarzenegger conferred so frequently on those ideas with Democratic legislative leaders that "Democrats all but wrote the speech," says Fabian Núñez, the Democratic assembly speaker who has shared cigars, wine and espresso with the Governor during their confabs...