Posted on 03/19/2010 7:55:51 AM PDT by SmithL
State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, who's being pummelled in the polls by his GOP gubernatorial opponent Meg Whitman, doesn't seem to be breaking a sweat about it. At the Commonwealth Club in Lafayette Thursday, the audience was reminded that Poizner is 1) a black belt in karate, 2) the guy who helped invent the GPS that's in their cell phones and 3) a politician with millions in his campaign warchest.
Poizner doesn't sound like a guy who's done, down and out in the governor's race. And in an energetic speech before the Layfayette audience, and in an interview with the Chronicle, he appeared charged and ready to kick up some trouble when he insisted that Californians will soon know in a big way about his record -- and that of the former eBay CEO.
"If voters are looking for a third term of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger who will make small, incremental changes, they'll vote for Meg Whitman,'' he says. "If they want to take the state in a different direction, with bold sweeping change, they'll vote for me."
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“Bold sweeping change” sounds a lot like “fundamentally transform”. Why cant any pol just say..’we will promise to stop Meddling!’
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