Scare tactics won't work on May 19

I admit that I voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger and a some of the other members of the California legislature, all of whom promised significant changes in the way California conduct its financial affairs. We have given them enough time to at least put California on the road to recovery even if we had expected more.

Now with the latest measures on the May 19 ballot, we have been proved wrong. The usual scare tactics are now spotlighted on TV and radio shamelessly showing starving children, houses burning down because there will be no firefighters, unabated crime because there will be no police, among other things.

It is time to eliminate the Terminator and those in the legislature who continually bow to outside pressures rather than doing what is right for all of us.

We cannot continue to allow ill-informed legislators and greedy outside interests put us behind the eight-ball. We need to suck it up and accept the outcome of defeating the measures 1A to 1E. Whatever they are, no one really knows. If you want to vote "yes" on 1F (legislator salary cuts during deficit budget years), a symbolic measure, do so.

Perhaps one of the tax revolt entities will promote a more penalty-driven measure to penalize our whole legislative body for their irresponsible actions. Arnold Prepsky Oak Park