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Bustamante agrees to largest ever campaign violation fine
Mercury News ^
| 4/13/04
| Tom Chorneau - AP
Posted on 04/13/2004 7:29:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: Iberian
I don't understand why this guy is still around? . If you were Arnie, why would you keep him around.Bustamante was independently elected. The governor has no power to remove him.
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posted on
04/13/2004 8:17:36 PM PDT
by
South40
(Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Iberian
In California the Lt. Governor does not run on a "ticket" with the Governor. He (or she) is elected directly and separately from the top slot. So a democrat 'Gov' can have an Republican 'Lt' OR as we have here, a Republican Governor is stuck with a typical democrat machine political hack.
To: Iberian
I don't understand why this guy is still around? . If you were Arnie, why would you keep him around. Bustamante was elected to his office in 2002 for a regular 4-year term.
Gov. Schwarzenegger doesn't really have a choice.
I am still concerned that, with the Democrats strongly in power in both houses of the legislature, Lt.Gov. Bustamante might sign awful legislation, nominate bad judges, or otherwise undermine Gov. Schwarzenegger when he travels outside CA. This happened when Mike Curb (R) was lieutenant governor to Jerry Brown many years ago and when Gray Davis (D) was lt.gov to Pete Wilson.
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posted on
04/13/2004 8:29:15 PM PDT
by
heleny
(http://www.save187.com/)
Yet another corrupt Dim!
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posted on
04/13/2004 8:30:02 PM PDT
by
wingster
To: Amerigomag
His campaign contributors will. Yet another correction - those union members getting banged out of their dues by union leader thugs will pay this fine.
The unions themselves will just take more from their members, and give more to Bustamecha, everybody's happy - except those folks whose union dues went to this boob's coffers.
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posted on
04/13/2004 8:38:18 PM PDT
by
StoneColdGOP
(McClintock - In Your Heart, You Know He's Right)
To: NormsRevenge
"Bustamante accepted at least 39 contributions -- many of them from Indian gambling interests"
The illegal part was he was supposed to use this money for the next lieutenant governor election, yet it is an outrage that Indian tribes, sovereign nation as they may be, can donate any money to any campaign and not be illegal!
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posted on
04/13/2004 9:04:31 PM PDT
by
seastay
To: South40
Understood, but this is Ernie. :-) oviously I did not bone up to that level in my citizenship knowledge.
My question is still Why is this guy hanging around and what is he doing?
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posted on
04/13/2004 9:15:54 PM PDT
by
Iberian
To: heleny
Arnold is almost a figure head with weak support from the left. I agree.
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posted on
04/13/2004 9:18:57 PM PDT
by
Iberian
To: NormsRevenge
bump
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posted on
04/14/2004 3:21:56 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Well, at least Kerry now knows who his running mate will be.
They just needed the ink to dry on the fine first.
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