Arnold Show: Canceled

Beverly Hills

Golden State voters resoundingly handed The Arnold Show its cancellation notice Tuesday night. All eight ballot measures that constituted the special election called by Governor Schwarzenegger--widely considered a referendum on his political agenda--went down in flames.

As word came toward midnight that the most tightly fought of the ballot props was going to be defeated--a so-called paycheck protection measure that would have effectively barred public employee unions from making political donations--a restaurant full of Hawaiian-shirted nurses broke into a victory conga dance, singing, "We are the nurses, the mighty, mighty nurses!" They had come together for an "Aloha Arnold" election-night party ready to bid farewell to their Republican rival.

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