Schwarzenegger: Special Election Crucial

[Judi Lynn]

Schwarzenegger: Special Election Crucial

By BETH FOUHY
The Associated Press
Monday, October 24, 2005; 11:10 PM

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Defending his November special election before an audience of voters, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday the ballot initiatives are crucial to continue changes he launched two years ago.

He cast the Nov. 8 election as the next step of the 2003 recall election that propelled him to office. Voters, he said, sent him to Sacramento to rebuild the state's economy and fix a moribund political system.

"We need reform. We have a broken system. That's why you sent me to Sacramento _ to fix the broken system," he said. "Please give me the tools."

He contended his policies have created 400,000 new jobs and billions in new revenue.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102402112.html

Edited to add:

Posted on Mon, Oct. 24, 2005

Schwarzenegger insists he has momentum ahead of election
Associated Press

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted endorsements from the leaders of several statewide law enforcement organizations Monday, saying his campaign is gaining momentum just in time for the Nov. 8 special election.

"We have our ways of campaigning. We always come from behind," Schwarzenegger told reporters as he touted endorsements of propositions 76 and 77 from statewide lobbying groups that represent district attorneys, sheriffs and probation officers. "We always arc at the right time."

Schwarzenegger also was preparing for tonight's voter forum in the eastern San Francisco Bay area city of Walnut Creek, part of a last-minute push to persuade voters.

The 90-minute forum will be the first time he will sit for an extended period of time to field unscripted questions from an audience not chosen by his campaign staff.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/12986732.htm

[Kadie]

1. a couple of arnie photos from tonight...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger responds to questions during the Special Election Showdown, a candidates' forum, Monday, Oct. 24, 2005, at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, Calif. (AP Photo/Jose Carlos Fajardo, Pool)



California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger responds to questions during a special election forum at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts on Monday, Oct. 24, 2005, in Walnut Creek, Calif. (AP Photo/Jose Carlos Fajardo, Pool)

[Patchuli]

4. He doesn't look like he's getting his way there

He's positively *snarling!*

on edit per spouse who thinks he looks terrified!

[Judi Lynn]

5. God! He's a wreck! Apparently karma is closing in on him.

These photos are excellent. Thanks a lot. :woohoo: :woohoo:

[melody]

8. Arnie is trying to perfect the Pete Wilson cynical sneer

Unfortunately, it just makes Wilson look dumber than he is - and it makes Arnie look like that killer doll Chuckie from those godawful movies.

[pinniped]

2. Sorry, Jerk-Gropenator. The people are on to your schemes.

--He cast the Nov. 8 election as the next step of the 2003 recall election that propelled him to office. Voters, he said, sent him to Sacramento to rebuild the state's economy and fix a moribund political system.--

Like his POS boss *, he says the same BS over and over. We need to fix this, fix that, fix CAAAAAAAAAAlifornia. He must be the dumbest parrot on the planet.

At least Herr Gropenator isn't fixated with the word "democracy."

Oh ya, time to fill out my absentee ballot. Just do a 180° on everything Herr Gropenstor endorses.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. This reminds me to send in my ballot with NO's on all his shitty

bad news initiatives. Thanks arnold, you perverted no good son of a bitch.,

[WhiteTara]

6. okay, okay, time to get back on the phone lists

and remind folks that we have to vote NO TO EVERYTHING. Herr Boobengroper is on his way out. If, of course, people vote

[MisterP]

7. "We always come from behind"--that's what the lawsuits say!

[jamesinca]

9. Ok Arnold answer me this

Why are you pulling your picture and name from the ads if you have such momentum? The LA Times has reported that you made that request. If you are doing so good, why are your political operatives becoming so mean and pissy toward your president when he has a fund raiser in L.A., saying that he is taking valuable needed money away from your fight? And another thing Arnold where do you come off saying this " He contended his policies have created 400,000 new jobs and billions in new revenue."? The bulk of those jobs are service sector jobs, not the living wage jobs that those people lost. Those jobs are the construction industry because the economy sucks, so interest rates fell, so home buying increased. If you have created billions in new revenue, why can't you present a budget to the state legislators that is balanced and does not cut programs like education funding? Better yet if you are creating billions of dollars, why don't you replace the money that you took from education, you know that money that you said you would not take! If you are creating billions in new revenue, why don't you pay off that $15 billion dollar loan that you had the state take to balance the budget last year?

Don't lie to me Arnold, I am not one of your mindless republicans.

Here is the truth on Arnold:

"We are reducing cost by getting injured workers the immediate treatment they need to get back to work faster" (Gov. weekly radio address 4/29/05)

The Truth: The governor has cut permanent disability benefits up to 70% ans allowed insurance companies to increase profits while denying workers medical care.
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On Prop 98 (school funding) "There are certain fundamental things I would just say, not over my dead body" (LA Times 9/5/03)

The Truth: "The Schwarznegger administration has acknowledged breaking a promise to education leaders to put more money into schools" (Sacramento Bee 3/18/05) My own personal note, he did not die either, so he told two lies in the same sentence.
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"I want to be the governor for the people. I want to represent EVERYBODY" (AP 10/8/03)

The Truth: "Get it straight...it's the unions that I'm against."
Gov Schwarznegger MSNBC 3/14/05

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"State employees will continue to be covered by a defined benefit retirement plan; this is in stark contrast to the concerns of many private sector employees" (Gov. Schwarznegger's 2004-05 budget proposal)

The Truth: Arnold's plan prohibited defined benefit pensions and eliminated death, disability benefits for firefighters and public safety workers.

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Arnold is now trying to eliminate the rules that protect every worker's meal break. He even declared it an emergency. (Office of Administrative Law 12/23/04)

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Q. Which bill did Schwarznegger VETO to appease a special interest donor?

a) bill to raise the minimum wage.
b) bill to protect car buyers from used car scams.
c) bill to re-regulate energy supplies in CA.
d) bil to allow importation of cheap, safe prescription drugs from Canada.

A. All of them! Special interest contributions - Car dealers $903,000..... Drug companies $372,000........ Financial institutions $5,520,000........ Insurance companies $2,043,000.

[salin]

10. Every story on this should include the COST of this election

that is only happening because Arnie wants it - it was not a scheduled election.

Every letter to the editor on the special election should include the price tag and suggest that arnie be billed for the cost.

Finally every letter to the editor should refer to that strategy phone call (documented in the LAT) where arnie's advisor said the strategy was to get voters to turn on civil servants and public employees - the example was the slogan about teachers "They are on the public pay roll and every day they try to roll you." (my paraphrase from memory.)