California governor sworn in for second term

Описание: (6 Jan 2007)

1. Wide shot California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in crutches walking into the reception to swear him in as governor, AUDIO: music
2. Close up Schwarzenegger
3. Pan of audience
4. Schwarzenegger being sworn in with his wife Maria Shriver on his side, repeating the oath of office after California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George


SCHWARZENEGGER'S SEQUEL

Styling himself a centrist who is not beholden to either political party, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in on Friday to a second term.

The governor, who is nursing a broken right leg, missed the first part of the program and came out on crutches at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium to deliver his speech.

The governor mentioned the dismal year he had in 2005 when his clash with the state's public employee unions cut his approval rating in half.

Using a religious metaphor, he said the debacle had awakened him to a new way of doing business.

"Like Paul on the road to Damascus, I had an experience that opened my eyes," he said to laughter among the crowd.

"And what was it that I saw? I saw that people, not just in California, but across the nation, were hungry for a new kind of politics, a politics that looks beyond the old labels, the old ways, the old arguments," the former movie star added.

Schwarzenegger said growing numbers of independent voters are showing the way to a new era of what he called "post-partisanship." And he called for a new "creative centre" in politics.

The state's 38th governor was sworn in by California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George, using a Schwarzenegger family Bible from 1878.

To burnish his bipartisan credentials, Schwarzenegger invited the state's top Democrats, including Republican Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, who on Thursday became the first woman speaker of the House.

The governor had not been seen in public since he broke his right femur during a ski accident in Sun Valley, Idaho, on December 23.

Schwarzenegger also used his address to present his vision of California two decades from now.

He hopes for grand achievements to rebuild the state's infrastructure, protect its environment, promote biotech research and correct the state's persistent budget woes.

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