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BY CHRISS STREET

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ohio Gov. John Kasich joined the fired Republican Assembly leader Chad Mayes to launch a trans-GOP ‘New Way California.’

Assemblyman Chad Mayes was dumped as GOP leader in August after he provided the crucial Republican swing vote that renewed Democrat Gov. Brown’s Climate Change cap-and-trade regime that by 2030 is expected to increase gas taxes by up to $.79 a gallon.

Mayes claimed he would launch a “New Way California” message to broaden the appeal for marginalized California Republican Party to rise above political parties and unite all Californians in support of “individual freedom, shared responsibility, educational excellence, environmental stewardship, efficient government and an open economy.”

Named by the newspaper in his local districts as the, “Benedict Arnold to many California conservatives”, the enthusiasm for Mayes’ New Way has been describes as “crickets.”

But according to Schwarzenegger’s spokesman Daniel Ketchell, the former governor and sitting Governor Kasich have committed to speak and lead panels at a New Way Summit on March 21 in Los Angeles to begin reform of California’s Republican Party.

Ketchell told The Blaze, “They will be focused on reminding the Republican Party we need them to be successful, but in order to be successful, they need to choose policies and messaging that helps them grow rather than continue to shrink.”

‘I throw up when I look at myself’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

But when Schwarzenegger left office in 2011, California Republicans were thoroughly disgusted with his leadership after he pushed through AB32 Climate Change taxes and passed the first across-the-board sales and income-tax increases in 17 years. He also supported illegal immigration amnesty and had a child out of wedlock with his maid.

Despite championing Democrat causes, Schwarzenegger’s voter approval was just 20 percent and disapproval was 75 percent. LA Weekly suggested the last “prototypical Schwarzenegger supporter as a young, white, single guy who lives in San Francisco, has no fixed political views and dreams of someday having a lovechild of his own.”

Schwarzenegger got back in politics by supporting Kasich’s 2016 presidential primary bid. Kasich promised he would not be “getting people riled up about how bad everything is,” but instead be a “Prince of light and hope” that would not attack other candidates. But then Kasich unsuccessfully attacked Trump and he finished 6^th in the Republican primary.

Gov. Kasich has recently begun moving away from traditionally core Republican values. Six days after the Parkland High School mass shooting, Kasich went on CNN to advocate for reasonable federal gun control measures. Later that day, he removed his website’s pro-Second Amendment section that archived campaign for governor ads.

For a movement that claims it will capture political power in America’s biggest state, the New Way California website only has 732 followers and no new posts since Feb. 1.