(Bee) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's political team is moving to take over his special election campaign after last week's court ruling that allows politicians to raise unlimited money for ballot measure efforts at the same time they fully control them....

Once the deadline to qualify initiatives has passed - around the first week of May for most of them - Schwarzenegger's political aides say they'll be running a full-scale election campaign with Schwarzenegger clearly in charge. "Clearly, for the next phase of the campaign, which is more direct voter contact, it is going to make our life a lot easier," said Marty Wilson, Schwarzenegger's chief fund-raiser.

The help comes at a crucial time for another reason: Democrats and organized labor have been so opposed to Schwarzenegger's proposals that they are mobilizing hundreds of protesters at many of his appearances - nurses, firefighters, teachers and other public employees who say he's waging unfair war on them and promoting only a pro-business agenda.

With the court victory, campaign fund raising for his proposed government overhaul initiatives - and how that money ultimately is spent - can now be commandeered without a legal cloud by Schwarzenegger's own campaign committee, the so-called California Recovery Team.