Posted on 08/05/2004 8:14:09 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
LAS VEGAS - Unveiling bright new billboards with his beaming visage and the message that "Arnold says California wants your business," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the city of glitz and hype Wednesday to kick off a national ad campaign singing the state's virtues as a place to make money.
The Republican governor, who griped repeatedly during his run for office that California had become a lousy place to do business, employed some of the same elaborately staged promotional gimmicks he mastered long before coming to Sacramento to trumpet his message that California - with him in charge - gets better every day.
Rising through a haze of theatrical smoke from a sunken stage normally used to produce fashion shows on the famous Las Vegas Strip, Schwarzenegger made a brief speech inside a shopping mall and then led an army of reporters and photographers from what he called one "great photo op" to another.
The parade culminated when police and other security officials blocked traffic on busy Las Vegas Boulevard so he could pose for pictures and then drive off - "I've driven a lot of big trucks," he said - in an 18-wheel white moving van whose side was emblazoned with the logo "Arnold's Moving Company."
If there was a company that wanted to come to California, he said, he'd send the van to help it make the move. Schwarzenegger, who's been known to call businesses and ask them to stay in California if they considered leaving and move here if they were interested, even offered to drive the van himself because, as he put it, "I'm a hands-on governor."
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What's funny about that?
He said he doesn’t blame Schwarzenegger for trying though – “I’d do the same thing if I were a loser.” (Regarding businesses that CA has lost, presumably) “But we’re the winner and he’s the loser and we’re going to keep it that way.” … something pretty close to that.
I actually was going to post an 'oops. sorry.' but chose not to as I wondered how long it would take for someone to comment. ;-)
But after further thought and the fact he is a feeeely kind of guy, by his own admission... sorry if you took it the wrong way.
btw, Never has a populace been so subjected to so much PR as we have the last year.
FRom Hope is on the way to Hype is on the way. Ain't politics a hoot?
Arnold may be a "feely kind of guy," but it's still not a good idea to continue to propigate the orchestrated Democrat smear campaign that was unleashed against him in the final weeks of the recall. His accusers were discredited (the few who weren't "anonyomous"), and the flood of accusations all suddenly vanished as quickly as they appeared as soon as the election was over, only further proving it was nothing more than "puke politics".
You're forgetting that he admitted to "indiscretions" and made that apology?
It all went away becuz there was nothing to it.
right.
No, Arnold gave a generic, politically expedient apology for "bad behavior" in his past, which was about general rowdiness on movie sets, and said he apologized to anyone who may have been offended by it. He did that in hopes of rising above the slander and moving beyond it. He never admitted to the specific charges that were leveled, and in fact denied them.
a generic, politically expedient apology for "bad behavior"
lol
Oh yes, companies are just dying to move back to CA.
And there is a 40 day wait for moving vans to leave the state.
Wow, someone actually trying to get business back to California. Now, if we can get the legislature on a part time basis, get some of these draconian laws overturned, then we might actually be on the road back to recovery.
Well, except for all the illegals which no one wants to do anything about lest they be hung by the press as being 'racist.'
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