Posted on 10/05/2004 6:24:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO - With just four weeks remaining until the high-stakes November election, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has turned his attention from the hundreds of bills that were before him to the campaign trail.
His first stops this week are in Orange County and San Jose, where he kicks off a series of town hall-style appearances meant to rally opposition to Propositions 68 and 70. Defeat of these gambling measures will protect the governor's deals with Indian tribes that operate casinos.
Schwarzenegger will tell guests at his ``Ask Arnold'' events that the initiatives are ``a jackpot for the special interests,'' said Todd Harris, one of the governor's political strategists.
As the Republican governor makes the transition to the trail, there seems to be no letup in his high-paced fundraising. A key Schwarzenegger campaign committee raised $878,000 during the month he reviewed 844 bills sent to him by the Legislature. On the day he finished, Sept. 30, and the following day, the governor raised an additional $354,500 primarily from business interests.
Schwarzenegger pledged as a recall candidate a year ago to rid the Capitol of the special-interest influence that contributed to former Democratic Gov. Gray Davis' downfall. The new governor has tried to deflect criticism of his own fundraising by crafting a still-evolving set of guidelines for his donors.
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He's raised a LOT of money for Republicans. And he wants more to work him to blow up those boxes in Sacramento next year.
Bill Jones might argue that point. ;-)
fyi - LA Times piece on Bill, the college years at FResno.
CA: Radical '70s Produced a Conservative Conciliator (Bill Jones)
In Southern California he's being attacked by "Latino Activists" for voting the latest illegal alien driver's license bill *and* a bill that would authorize REPARATIONS for decendants of a "Mexican Repatriation," authorized by President Hoover in 1931 and continued under FDR to free up jobs for Americans during The Great Depression. Gumby, I mean Grey Davis also vetoed but he did so only saying the state should save money by paying directly rather than requiring lawsuits to be brought.
I think it's a race between Bill Jones and Alan Keyes for which Republican US Senate candidate will lose by the biggest margin.
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