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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Rob Reiner = “A Friend”
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, jokes with students from left, Jamie Vang, Polly Thet, Maikao Vang and Nalee Chang in the medical nursing careers class at Duncan Polytechnic High School, Tuesday, March 21, 2006, in Fresno, Calif. Schwarzenegger talked about the $50 million he has included in his 2006-07 budget for vocational education.
Fresno Bee: Governor promotes budget, bond proposals in Fresno visit
Gov. Schwarzenegger toured Duncan Polytechnical High School on Tuesday, using the school’s vocational education focus to highlight his push for such training, including $50 million in his proposed state budget and additional money in a state infrastructure bond he wants to put on the November ballot.
The governor toured woodworking, automotive and nursing classes at the school, visiting with students and getting briefed on vocational education issues by teachers and Duncan principal Carol Gaab Hansen.
Schwarzenegger also sat down with The Bee’s editorial board, where he addressed a broad range of subjects, including the infrastructure bond, education, Sacramento’s commitment to the central San Joaquin Valley and immigration reform.
And, what did the Governor say at the editorial board………?
Said maintaining $1 billion in the state infrastructure bond for Highway 99 improvements is not negotiable. If that amount is reduced, the governor said of the bond: “It won’t happen.”
This is a backhanded criticism of state Republican legislative leaders. So, Schwarzenegger will probably get “NOTHING” to place on the November ballot or a defeat at the polls for whatever measure that appears.
Defended the statewide high school exit exam, which students must pass to graduate. “I believe very strongly in the exit exam,” he said. Still, the governor said some sort of accommodation must be made for special education students, in the form of a waiver or an alternative assessment.
The California High School Exit Exam is a disaster and California public schools are worse than a disaster. California Superintendent of Public Instruction is a career politician with only 18 months as a teacher and a joke.
Education accountablility is one thing but the California Teachers Union calls the shots and until they are brought around or tamed the schools will remain the same – with or without an exit exam which NO ONE will pass (unless it is watered down).
Said the federal government must come up with a viable guest-worker program to assist agriculture. Still, he acknowledged there are daunting challenges in such a program, including getting guest workers to return to their country of origin.
Arnld must be listening to the Big Ag boys who write the campaign checks. Flap thought Arnold supported Gilchrist and the Minutemen?
Defended actor Rob Reiner, who has come under fire after a state commission he chairs spent $23 million in state money on an ad campaign promoting the benefits of preschool at the same time he is pushing a preschool ballot initiative. He said he is standing by Reiner, whom he called “a friend,” until there is evidence of wrongdoing. “Innocent until proven guilty,” he said.
With LEFTIE “friends” like this who needs ……. well, the reader understands. Arnold sure knows how to put his foot in his mouth. Hollywood Actor/Producer Rob Reiner should have been fired months ago for his blatant political manipulation of the First 5 California Children and Families Commission. A brewing scandal that now Schwarzenegger owns.
Does Arnold REALLY want to be re-elected in November or does he have a “DEATH WISH?”
Stay tuned……
The Sacramento Bee has Governor won’t oust Reiner from commissionÂ
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Governor and California Republican Party Raise $2.5 Million and PROTESTS
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the importance of education to some 900 high school choir members, staff and families at the 17th annual High School Choir Festival at Disney Hall in Los Angeles on Monday, March 20, 2006. Schwarzenegger was to host a major fundraising dinner later in the evening.
ASSociated Press: Schwarzenegger, GOP raise $2.5 million at SoCal fundraiser
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state GOP collected an estimated $2.5 million at a fundraiser headlined by Sen. John McCain that helped replenish coffers drained by a failed ballot measure campaign last year.
Top donors kicked in as much as $100,000 to attend Monday night’s dinner and reception at the Beverly Hilton while about 200 protesters from teacher, firefighter and other unions protested outside.
Some of the donors are listed here on ElectionTrack and here on the invitation.
Members of the California Nurses Association push what looks like a gurney with a giant soap bar down a hallway as they try to see California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at a fundraiser attendeded by U.S. Sen. John McCain, in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, March 20, 2006. The nurses are wearing protective gear and want to hand the symbolic soap bar to Schwarzenegger to clean up corporate corruption.
Security guards and police turned away about two dozen members of the California Nurses Association who tried to march into the reception shouting, “Shame on Arnold.”
“This fundraiser is the prime example of what is wrong with our system,” said Jill Furillo, Southern California director of the nurses association. “They write their $100,000 checks because they hope to get a favor in return.”
The scene was reminiscent of 2005, when union activists angered by the governor’s agenda hounded his public appearances and ran millions of dollars of TV ads. Their campaign contributed to the November defeat of Schwarzenegger-supported ballot measures to slow state spending and curb public union power in Sacramento.
Flap supposes the acquiescence of Governor Schwarzenegger to the nurse staffing ratios sought by the California Nurses Association immediately after the November 2005 California Special Election has had little deterrent effect on labor protests. But, then, we knew that didn’t we?
Apparently, those nurses have not forgotten how Schwarzenegger stated he would “kick their butt.”
It looks to Flap it is the reverse on whose ass is getting kicked.
A man in a mask of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., joins a protest outside a gala fundraiser for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, at which McCain was to be a featured speaker, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, March 20, 2006. One organizer explained the visual metaphor as meaning the governor should ‘come clean’ about his special-interest financial support. Scores of union members protested, calling for his ouster in November.
McCain, R-Ariz, headlined the governor’s reelection fundraiser, hosted by donors from the entertainment and business elite that included “The Terminator” director James Cameron, Interscope Records chief Jimmy Iovine, Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel and Univision Communications Inc. Chairman A. Jerrold
McCain has urged Schwarzenegger to push for campaign finance reforms in California in 2006. But the governor has spent much of his time talking about building highways, levees and schools, not restraining the flow of campaign dollars.
McCain spokesman Craig Goldman said that to his knowledge, the senator and governor did not discuss campaign finance reform at the fundraiser.
It is trolling for dollars season to fund the June and November campaigns. The Democrats have filed a complaint against McCain for soliciting money above the federal limits, but it will go nowhere.
Democrat candidates for Governor are trolling for the same dollars and believe, Flap, they will turn NO donor away.
The Democrats running against him in the June primary – state Controller Steve Westly and Treasurer Phil Angelides – were also busy fundraising, sometimes appealing to the same corporate and entertainment industry donors pursued by the governor.
Schwarzenegger has collected at least $5.2 million for his reelection, according to state reports, while Angelides has raised about $2 million. Westly has collected $3.4 million but that includes $2.5 million of his own money.
Here are some more photos from the union protests:
A man wearing an Arnold Schwarzenegger mask is wheeled in a bathtub with a bubble-making machine during a protest outside a gala fundraiser for the California governor.
Members of the California Nurses Association, some wearing hazardous infection protection gear, blow soap bubbles as they walk outside after being escorted out by hotel security at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, March 20, 2006. The nurses wanted to hand over a large soap bar to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who at the hotel holding a fundraiser with Sen. John McCain.
Stay tuned…. The campaign for California Governor is just beginning……..
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Alliance for a Better California – “We’re BACK!”
NBC4TV: Sen. John McCain To Speak At Schwarzenegger Fund-Raiser
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign will get a much-needed infusion of at least $2 million thanks to a fund-raiser Monday in Beverly Hills featuring a speech by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
Tickets for Monday’s fund-raiser at the Beverly Hilton, which also benefits the California Republican Party, start at $1,000.
The Alliance for a Better California is BACK and has a “SURPRISE” for the California Governor:
***Media Advisory***
FIREFIGHTERS, NURSES, TEACHERS, POLICE OFFICERS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS HOLD
RALLY OUTSIDE SCHWARZENEGGER-MCCAIN FUNDRAISER AT THE BEVERLY HILTONFed up with the Governor Schwarzenegger’s broken promises and failure to lead, the Alliance for a Better California is holding a rally outside the Governor’s Beverly Hills fundraiser with Senator John McCain, where the Governor is expected to raise an unprecedented $2 million in one night.
The Alliance for a Better California is also circulating an online petition to Senator McCain asking him not to attend the fundraiser, which violates both the letter and spirit of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law the Senator fought so vigorously to pass.
The Governor’s campaign announced last month their fundraising goal of $120 million for this election. The Governor is holding fundraisers this month in New York City, Phoenix, Washington, D.C. and all over the state of California. On his trip to D.C., where he promised to bring back federal dollars to shore up the state’s levees, Schwarzenegger ended up bringing home more money for his campaign than he did for the entire state of California.
WHAT: RALLY/PROTEST AT GOVERNOR’S FUNDRAISER IN BEVERLY HILLS WITH FIREFIGHTERS, NURSES, TEACHERS, POLICE OFFICERS, SCHOOL EMPLOYEES AND OTHER CONCERNED CITIZENS
WHERE: THE BEVERLY HILTON
WHITTIER AND SANTA MONICA BLVD.
BEVERLY HILLS, CAWHEN: MONDAY, MARCH 20TH
4:30 P.M.CONTACT: ROBIN SWANSON (916) 443-7817
*** LEADERS FROM THE CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, THE CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, THE CALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS AND THE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL EMPLOYEES ASSN. MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE RALLY. TO SET ONE UP, PLEASE CALL ROBIN.
*** DAVID SANCHEZ OF THE CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION IS A SPANISH SPEAKER, AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS IN SPANISH AT THE RALLY.
Looks like that deal Schwarzenegger cut with the California Nurses Association after the November 2005 California Special Election wasn’t enough.
But, then again, after reading the Los Angeles Times today the donors may NOT show because of Schwarzenegger’s “living large.”
Stay tuned for photos of tonight’s protest demonstrations……
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: The New Majority
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: The New Majority
ASSociated Press: Moderate Republican PAC has forged close ties with Schwarzenegger
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could find a lot of reasons why the Legislature turned away his public works plan to spend billions of dollars on highways, schools and levees, but Paul Folino wasn’t one of them.
The wealthy chairman of computer-components maker Emulex Corp. – who also is a personal friend of the governor and one of his most generous financial patrons – was just one of the administration supporters who called legislators in an ultimately futile bid to secure votes for the massive bond issue.
Folino’s participation wasn’t happenstance. His informal lobbying is just one example of the close and beneficial relationship Schwarzenegger shares with Folino and the rapidly expanding political action committee he helped establish, the New Majority. Members of the centrist group have donated or raised more than $10 million for the Republican governor’s political ventures.
“Our view of the world links up very closely with the governor’s – you have to consider the governor is a moderate Republican,” Folino said. “We’ve become close friends. I feel like my wife and I are part of the family.”
At a time when Schwarzenegger is struggling to shore up support within his own party, his ties to Republican moderates are likely to become an increasingly important financial source for his emerging re-election bid.
And California Conservatives are supposed to be happy that Republican “MODERATES” are driving California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger re-election?
The Governor has been in trouble with conservatives since the November 2005 California Special Election.
First, it was the Susan Kennedy appointment.
Second, the Minimum Wage Increase announcement.
Third, the appointment of a “moderate” to the California Supreme Court.
Fourth, the Massive Infrastructure Bond.
And the list goes on with the Governor having appointed an equal number of Democrats as Republican to the state bench, appointing other Democrats to staff positions in lieu of Republicans and the California Republican Assembly’s efforts to yank the pre-primary endorsement of the California Republican Party for Schwarzenegger.
So, the question California conservatives must ask this Fall:
Is it in the conservative movements best interests that Schwarzenegger wins in November?
The New Majority’s website is here.
“The New Majority group cares deeply about the future of California and includes some of the most distinguished leaders in the country. The governor is grateful for their ongoing support of his bold agenda to continue moving the state forward,” Schwarzenegger’s campaign manager, Steve Schmidt, said in a statement Friday.
Members of the New Majority “are checkbook Republicans – individuals who are wealthy and raise big bucks to support moderate candidates,” said GOP analyst Allan Hoffenblum.
Unlike the party’s social conservatives, he said, “they are not dominated by religious-right issues.”
California conservative voters are being taken for granted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is NOT a conservative. But, then again, we knew this when we recalled Gray Davis.
Will Flap and his friends turn out and vote for Arnold this November?
Doubtful…….
So, how many votes will the “New Majority” be able to buy for the Governor?
Not Many……..
Stay tuned for the MSM to expose the “New Majority” as special interests chasing California state contracts.
What do they get in return?
“I’ve never asked for a thing,” Folino said. “Most of my business is actually generated outside of California. It’s not about getting anything in return.”
Baxter and Folino are members of the governor’s jobs commission, which advises Schwarzenegger on economic matters. Another member, Gary Hunt of the consulting firm California Strategies, is the campaign’s finance chairman. A.G. Kawamura, an Orange County grower who was a member of the PAC, is Schwarzenegger’s food and agriculture secretary.
Other companies with ties to the group are involved in state business.
State records show developer Irvine Co., headed by New Majority member Donald Bren, spent more than $350,000 for lobbying in 2005-06 on a host of state matters, including dealings with the governor’s office.
Perhaps it is time for California conservatives to reject the “moderate” candidacy of Arnold Schwarzenegger and advocate staying at home this November rather than supporting/voting for a politician that is an anathema to their conservative principles.
Will anyone beside Flap have the guts……?
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Public Works Bonds are DEAD and so is Schwarzenegger’s Re-election?
Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Governor Avoids “GLADIATOR†Controversy
Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Arnold Classic 2006
Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: The California Field Poll Part 1
California Republican Party Convention Watch: McClintock ASKS for Unity to Help Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: A History of BOLDNESS
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: “What Does Arnold Schwarzenegger Believe in?â€Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Latest Survey USA Poll NOT Favorable for California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: California Governor to Push Global Warming Fight
Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Chief of Staff Susan Kennedy Paid by Cadiz Real Estate
Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: New Politically Diverse Campaign Team Set for Governor’s Reelection
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Public Works Bonds are DEAD and so is Schwarzenegger’s Re-election?
BLOW TO CAMPAIGN: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to his office after his news conference Thursday. His inability to strike a deal on the public works plan underscores the continuing trouble he faces in trying to recover from the political damage left by his failed pursuit last year of an agenda that enraged organized labor.
Los Angeles Times: Loss on Public Works Is a Crack in Reelection Plan
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s failure to persuade lawmakers to put a vast public works plan on the June ballot denies him a concrete achievement that he counted on using as a centerpiece of his reelection campaign.
The setback is especially sharp for Schwarzenegger because both of the Democrats vying to replace him argue that he has accomplished little as governor and, more broadly, is unqualified for the job.
NEVER has Flap seen a politician with such promise self-destruct in so short of time. Arnold has been a disaster as California Governor. He, like Jesse Ventura, the former Governor of Minnesota has morphed from a popular entertainment celebrity to an unpopular “empty suit” politician who can and will accomplish nothing.
Dan Weintraub also has a good analysis of the Governor’s Infrastructure Bond failure, What went wrong?
Flap handicaps Schwarzenegger’s re-election at less than a 50-50 chance. His poll numbers are low, he has NO major accomplishments to his credit since he replaced Demcorat Gray Davis and he has alienated his Republican Party base. This is a recipe for electoral disaster.
Arnold’s only hope for re-election (slim that it is) is that California Controller Steve Westly and California Treasuer Phil Angelides beat each other to a pulp prior to the June primary election. In Flap’s estimation, Westly is winning the media war with Angelides.
A Westly vs. Schwarzenegger contest will NOT be pretty for the California GOP. Westly will slaughter the governor and all of the down ticket Republican candidates. In fact, Flap does not foresee one Republican winning a state constitutional office this year.
Did the California Republican Party err in recalling Gray Davis and installing the Governator?
You betcha…..
SHARP SETBACK: The governor acknowledged his disappointment at a Capitol news conference Thursday.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Chief of Staff Susan Kennedy Paid by Cadiz Real Estate
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Elton Gallegly Watch: Election Confusion Divides Ventura County GOP
*****Scroll Down for Updates*****Ventura County Star: Confusion over Gallegly createsstrife in GOP
Rep. Elton Gallegly, after meeting in Washington, D.C., with his Republican colleagues from California, said Tuesday night he has not yet decided whether he will actively seek re-election.And that uncertainty over his status has led to considerable internal strife within the Ventura County Republican Party.
Ventura County GOP activists and leaders are in turmoil. The Ventura County Republican Chairman, Leslie Cornejo, has endorsed Westlake Vaillage attorney Michael Tenenbaum and apparently will not withdraw this endorsement even if Congressman Gallegly decides to run for re-election.
Peggy Sadler (from Simi Valley and friend of the Congressman), a long-time member of the Ventura County Republican Central Committee and the California Republican Party is sending out correspondence asking everyone “My counsel is definitely to cool it.”
Local GOP Central Committees loathe and shun pre-primary endorsements. They are done all of the time but without the formal endorsement of the Republican Party. Flap should know since he endorsed Elton Gallegly over Tony Hope and Tom LaPorte when Gallegly first ran for the Congress.
Pre-primary endorsements definitely involve risks in the GOP. Pick the wrong candidate and your Republican credentials and career may be over. Pick the right one and you are a rising star.
Elton must make his OWN choice on whether to run.
Flap only hopes that he does so quickly…….
Stay tuned…..
Update #1
Rep. Gallegly has scheduled 4 pm (EST) / 1 pm ( PST) press conference at the Capitol Hill Club
Update #2
Los Angeles Times: Calif. Rep. Gallegly Reverses Retirement
Republican Rep. Elton Gallegly of California reversed course Wednesday and said he will seek re-election to an 11th term rather than follow through on retirement plans he announced last week.
Gallegly, 62, had cited unspecified health reasons when he announced on Friday, the deadline to file for re-election, that he wouldn’t run again to represent the 24th District.
As Flap handicapped. But, what will Republican Michael Tenenbaum do? If he is smart……..
WITHDRAW……
Update #3
From the Flash Report:GALLEGLY TO RUN
Rep. Elton Gallegly has announced at a press conference in Washington D.C. moments ago that he will campaign for the 24th Congressional District. Gallegly indicated that the White House called to ask him to run and he will aggressively run for re-election. He said that if elected in 2006, it will be his last term. A number of Members stood behind him at the press conference, including Dreier, Calvert, Herger and Issa. Also there to support Gallegly was Simi Valley City Councilman Glen Becerra ( an FR Friend) , who many run for the open seat in 08.
Flap handicaps the seat will go to Tom McClintock in 2008 even if McClintock wins the California Lt. Governorship this Fall.
Stay tuned…..
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: California Teachers Association President Barbara Kerr Ridicules Schwarzenegger on “Core Values”
Barbar Kerr, President of the California Teachers Association (L) and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
San Jose Mercury News: Teachers union president slams Schwarzenegger over `core values’
Barbara Kerr, president of the 335,000-member California Teachers Association, got a lot of laughs at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s expense Saturday.
``This governor talks, then he changes his mind, then he talks, then he changes,” said Kerr, addressing 400 educators at the union’s Urban Issues Conference at the San Jose Marriott. “He has no core values whatsoever.”
Gee……Kerr sounds like Arnie Steinberg………….
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Chief of Staff Susan Kennedy Paid by Cadiz Real Estate
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Fundraiser with the Governor Nets Orange County Sheriff Carona $700,000
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California Republican Party Convention Watch: McClintock ASKS for Unity to Help Schwarzenegger
Lt. Governor candidate and California State Senator Tom McClintock (L) and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, November 2005.
The California Republican Party on Saturday sought to defuse criticism of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and rally support from a divided membership as it struggled for unity at the start of a pivotal election year.
At stake, they were told, are a second term for Schwarzenegger and whether the party can build on the momentum of the 2003 recall election that brought him to power.
“What do you think are greater — the differences among us as Republicans or the differences between us and the Democrats?” state Sen. Tom McClintock, a candidate for lieutenant governor, told hundreds of members attending the GOP’s winter convention. “This is the election that will decide whether the recall was a fleeting curiosity or whether it was an historic turning point.”
Schwarzenegger’s poll numbers are dismal among the GOP and now he NEEDS McClintock to FLACK for him?
How about if the Governor enacted policies that reflected Republican core ideals.
Is this asking too much?
“I don’t agree with the governor on everything, but I still support him,” McClintock said to a packed convention hall, a day after Schwarzenegger addressed the convention and told party members that they share common goals.
McClintock urged the GOP to show a “solid and steadfast commitment” to the party’s principles and the direction set by Schwarzenegger.
Everyone knows that McClintock has always been a poor political fundraiser. In fact, he has had few jobs outside of government that qualify him for higher office (much like his Ventura County chort, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O’Connell) and the donors know this. With Schwarzenegger he has found a willing “BANK” for his Lt. Governor race.
This display by Tom really is quite sad and pathetic.
And not everyone is buying the McClintock spin……
Some of those who have led the criticism of Schwarzenegger remained unconvinced.
Republican candidates for statewide office traditionally need at least 80 percent of the party vote to win, and at this point Schwarzenegger “doesn’t have that,” said Michael Spence, who heads the California Republican Assembly, a conservative wing of the party.
Regarding Schwarzenegger’s appeal for unity, he said, “I don’t care what he says at this point. I care about what he does.”
Will the call for UNITY ignite the GOP base to turn-out and vote for Arnold in November?
Doubtful……
Stay tuned…….
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California State Senator and Lt. Governor candidate Tom McClintock in San Jose at the California Republican Party Convention, February 24, 2006.
Timm Herdt of the Ventura County Star has McClintock assumes mantle of statesman as keynote speaker at Republican convention
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: A History of BOLDNESS
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gives a thumbs-up as he addresses the California Republican Party winter convention in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. Schwarzenegger said he will continue to push for government reforms but called on skeptical members of his own party to stop fighting and start leading.
Los Angeles Times: Gov. Tries to Soothe GOP Discontent
At the opening of the state party convention, Schwarzenegger touts his conservative side and boldness. His pitches win over some.Seeking to calm an uprising among conservatives, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger began sketching a rationale for his reelection for fellow Republicans on Friday by portraying himself as a bold leader who can rise above partisan squabbling to meet California’s critical needs.
The Governor understands that with California Republican registration at 35 % that he must appease the GOP activists while appealing to moderate voters. Arnold has never been a conservative and it is obvious that he is ill at ease speaking before this conservative GOP constituency.
The governor reminded 650 Republicans of the times he has stuck to a conservative line: slashing the car tax, rejecting calls for higher income taxes, blocking a move to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. But in a hotel ballroom dinner speech opening the state party’s weekend convention, Schwarzenegger also confronted conservative outrage at his vast new public-works spending proposal, arguing to delegates that it fits Republican traditions dating to the Civil War.
Schwarzenegger is laughable at citing the car tax and driver’s licenses for illegals as his conservative achievements. He would NEVER have been able to RECALL Gray Davis if he did not impose Davis’s illegal resumption of this punitive tax. Likewise, in his veto statement Arnold hedged on the rationale for NOT granting illegal aliens driver’s licenses.
And comparing himself to Lincoln and the Civil War? Who is his speech writer?
“We Republicans have a history of boldness,” Schwarzenegger said in an address punctuated by frequent cheers and applause. “I love that. Abraham Lincoln struck down slavery. Teddy Roosevelt fathered the environmental movement. Dwight D. Eisenhower built the interstate highway. And Ronald Reagan tore down the wall and defeated communism.
“This is a time in California’s history that calls for similar boldness.”
Schwarzenegger, you are NO Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower or Reagan. And your infrastructure bonding plan to enslave California taxpayers for decades is comparable to the interstate highway program?
How laughable is this?
The Governor’s 16 minute speech will do nothing to buttress him in polls with GOP voters.
Flap handicaps MOST California Republicans will stay home this fall.
Blogger reactions:
SactoDan: If We Don’t Build It, They Won’t Come- Schwarzenegger at the CAGOP ConventionRoseville Conservative Blog: Governator Comes Out Swinging!
Boi From Troy: Schwarzenegger’s Five R’s for 2006
Steve Frank: Lame Excerpts
John Fleishman: Arnold’s Speech – “Safe” but didn’t address GOP concerns
MSM:
Los Angeles Daily News: GOP to fight for Arnold, despite doubts
San Jose Mercury News: Schwarzenegger tells GOP it’s time to lead
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Keynote Address Tonight to California Republican Party
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls on a pipe valve to stop the flow of fake red ink during a news conference at Cal Expo in Sacramento, Calif., in this file photo taken Wedensday, Feb. 23, 2005. Schwarzenegger used the event to call on lawmakers to approve a constitutional amendment that automatically cuts state spending across the board if spending execeeds state revenues. In January, 2006, Schwarzenegger announced his Strategic Growth Plan, a proposal to spend $68 billion for a state infrastructure bond plan. After executing a variety of political cartwheels to the right and left, Schwarzenegger is struggling to re-establish the centrist appeal that helped elect him to office in 2003.
ASSociated Press: Schwarzenegger to Give Keynote Address
After a year in which he lurched right, then left, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faces an early crossroad in his re-election campaign for governor.
The Hollywood star-turned-politician is scheduled to give the keynote speech Friday at the state Republican Party winter convention in San Jose — even as conservatives openly question why they should support him.
“When you look at the gyrations in his policies, it appears he’s plagued by an absence of core values,” said longtime Republican strategist Arnold Steinberg. “He comes across as a caricature, where energy and enthusiasm are confused with core values.”
Look for Schwarzenegger to throw some “RED MEAT” at the Republican activists to placate the California Republican Party enough to avoid a NON-ENDORSEMENT.
The only person rooting for Schwarzenegger this weekend is Democrat, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
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