(Knoxville News-Sentinel) This year, as California again faces a multibillion-dollar deficit, the governor has proposed asking voters to approve another new measure - one titled the "Live Within Our Means Act."

He and his fiscal team say last year's measures only started to fix a problem that took years to build.

But with well-financed groups including teachers unions already opposing the new spending control effort, political experts say Schwarzenegger must walk a careful line in explaining to voters that he meant what he said last year - and he means it again now.

"He's going to have to develop a message that says this really is the most important and here's why, and explain why last year didn't do it," said Barbara O'Connor, director of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media at California State University, Sacramento. ...

Garry South, a Democratic political consultant who worked for former Gov. Gray Davis, said he thinks voters believed that they were solving the state's budget problems last year.

"How many times can you go to the voters and say, 'This is a once-and-for-all budget reform act that will cure deficit spending?' " South asked. "He has a credibility problem on this."