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To: MadIvan; Alex Murphy
And, from THIS thread:

Governor won't apologize for calling his foes 'girlie men'
The Marin Independent Journal ^ | July 19, 2004 | Staff
Posted on 07/19/2004 7:22:18 AM PDT by MadIvan

Democrats say comment sexist and homophobic

LOS ANGELES - A spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said yesterday that the governor would not apologize for calling lawmakers "girlie men," despite criticisms from Democrats that the remark was sexist and homophobic.

Schwarzenegger said during a rally Saturday that Democrats were delaying the budget by catering to special interests, and that the lawmakers were "girlie men" if they refused to admit it. He also said Californians should vote out lawmakers who stand in the way of passing the budget.

"If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers' if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men," Schwarzenegger said to the cheering crowd at a mall food court in Ontario.

The governor lifted the term from a long-running "Saturday Night Live" skit in which two pompous, Schwarzenegger-worshipping weightlifters repeatedly use it to mock those who don't meet their standards of physical perfection...

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To: MadIvan
When asked about the his "girly-man" comment, Gov. Schwarzenegger's press secretaries threatened to "wring out their gym socks and make the press drink it".

61 posted on 07/19/2004 7:55:10 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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3 posted on 07/26/2004 11:30:33 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
ARNOLD SAYS:
TERMINATE
'GIRLIE MAN'
RUDY
BERMUDEZ


4 posted on 07/26/2004 11:54:29 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog

Keep us northern conservatives tuned in with the retirement of this La Raza Bozo.


15 posted on 07/27/2004 4:36:58 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The Pickled Princess is Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry, aka Terezilla!)
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