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Posted on 09/18/2003 6:25:58 AM PDT by Sabertooth
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:43:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Sacramento -- The major candidates in the California recall will participate Sept. 24 in an unusual candidates' forum that will be hosted by the California Broadcasters Association. If the recall election is not delayed by the federal courts, it is likely to be the only statewide debate featuring Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger side-by-side with other major candidates.
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Refusal to do more than one debate, that with scripted questions, controlled, caller free interviews. Arnold's bid for guv is beginning to remind me of Hillary's 2000 senate campaign.
Saturday, September 20th, 11am
San Jose's Cesar Chavez Park (across from Fairmont Hotel)
STOP Judicial Tyranny ... NOW Rally
Save OUR Recall Election from the 9th Circus Court of Meddlers!!!
A local small business owner from Melanie Morgan Hill, the initiator, will be there with sign in hand.
Please come out & show your fellow California citizens how you feel about a Federal Court meddling in a state election.
If punch card ballots were good enough to elect the bum, Why are they not good enough to toss da bum out?
Creativity as always is greatly appreciated.
See you there!!! Thanks!
If you enjoy politics and spontaneous interaction between political candidates, then this is the one debate to miss. It means absolutely nothing. Except, if you're an Arnoldnaut. Then its the one debate to watch. Arnold will show everyone that he's capable of answering questions in a non-spontaneous fashion. Which only further illustrates why Arnold is, an empty suit.
Good to see you are on your usual anti-immigrant bashing way.I often disagree with ST's priorities, but even **I** understand that the CORRECT way to describe his focus is:
...anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant bashing...
Isn't it disconcerting to be on Cruz's side so often? :o)See also, from CNN.com:
Bustamante challenges CBA debate participants to withdraw
Only debate Schwarzenegger set to joinThursday, September 18, 2003 Posted: 10:39 AM EDT (1439 GMT)
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Will Arnold Schwarzenegger's Super Bowl of a recall debate be a bust? It might if Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante has his way.
Next week is the only scheduled California recall debate that Schwarzenegger has agreed to attend. The debate, sponsored by the California Broadcasters Association, has been criticized for providing candidates with the questions in advance.
At a different debate Wednesday in Los Angeles, Bustamante asked the other participants to boycott the CBA event.
"I hope you really will take me up on my offer to have an unscripted debate outside," Bustamante said. "Leave Arnold in there with his movie-scripted answers and have the rest go outside."
A spokesman for Bustamante said the other candidates in attendance -- Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, independent Arianna Huffington and Green Party candidate Peter Camejo -- reacted positively to the idea.
According to Huffington's spokeswoman, Huffington was taking the idea seriously.
"Arianna would go for it," said Celia Alario.
Calls to the McClintock and Camejo campaign were not returned.
Asked about Bustamante's idea after taping an interview with CNN's Larry King, Schwarzenegger only said he needed to hear the challenge directly.
"I haven't heard so I have to first hear it from him," Schwarzenegger said.
But on Larry King Live Wednesday night Schwarzenegger defended only appearing in one debate.
'Just little warm-ups'
"The other things are just little warm-ups. We go for the Super Bowl of the debates," Schwarzenegger said.
Mark Powers of the California Broadcasters Association said he wasn't surprised at Bustamante's challenge.
He said the format of the debate allows for long discussions on the pre-released questions, rather than quick sound bites, and claimed that Bustamante and his campaign officials might be nervous."They really don't care for the format," Powers said. "After they saw the questions they were scared to death."
However, you must keep in mind, it would be easier to sway a more conservative (used loosely) candidate like Arnold to see the negatives of not addressing this issue, than a Bustamante (like Davis) that simply looks at them as additional votes.
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Good to see you are on your usual anti-immigrant bashing way.
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1. How would you propose enhancing revenue and/or what specific cuts would you propose to achieve a balanced budget?
I would reduce the wasteful spending and audit everything. That's my plan.2. Leaders in the business community are convinced that this state is losing jobs and unable to attract new businesses. If you agree, what are two things you would change to make this a more business-friendly state? If you disagree, what are the misconceptions you would like to correct?
We have to stop the wasteful spendful and be friendly to the businesses.3. How are you going to ensure that all Californians have adequate health care?
We want to make sure the older folks have their care that they need. That everything has to be provided for the people.4. Everybody talks about wanting a colorblind society, but what does that actually mean to you? In other words, how do we know when we have succeeded?
Only right wing crazies want to be blind to the coloreds.5. What should be the top priority for California right now?
To audit everything.6. If elected governor, will you support the expansion of charter schools in California?
All the schools have to provide the babysitting for the children. The hundreds of millions of dollars of spending in my Prop 49 is a start, but we need lots more.7. What do you expect to accomplish in the time remaining on Gray Davis' term that he could not?
To bring about change and to turn things around by doing things different.8. What is the single most important piece of legislation either signed or vetoed during this past legislative session?
People don't want facts and figures, they want me!9. Do you support reducing the Vehicle License Fee (car tax), and if so, where would you find the revenue to replace the loss to the budget?
When I'm elected President, I'll ask the Democrats to change that.10. What services will your administration expect local governments to provide and what stable source of revenue will you give them to do it?
We'll get rid of Proposition 13. [frenzied buzzing in his earpiece] I mean protect the 13 and audit everything.11. Under Govs. Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan, California spent up to 20 percent of its general fund on infrastructure -- such as roads, bridges, colleges, hospitals and water systems. Now we spend closer to 1 percent. Proposition 53 on the ballot raises that figure to 3 percent. What are your positions on Prop. 53, and what will you do to invest more in California's aging infrastructure?
Our children are the most important thing, and that's why I'll audit everything. That's my plan.12. As our population continues to age, the demand for government services to seniors will increase dramatically during the next decade. What do you intend to do to proactively manage this demand?
Our old people are the most important thing, and that's why I'll audit everything. That's my plan.
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