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Schwarzenegger Calls Calif. Dems 'Losers'
Yahoo News ^ | Nov. 4, 2004 | AP

Posted on 11/04/2004 9:12:03 PM PST by FairOpinion

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two days after the Democrats took at drubbing at the polls across the country, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) referred to leaders of the state's majority party as "losers."

At a Thursday news conference, the Republican governor who branded Democrats "girlie men" during a budget fight last year was asked whether he would listen to tax-increase proposals from Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata or other Democratic leaders.

"Why would I listen to losers?" Schwarzenegger asked. "Let's be honest."

As soon as he made that remark, however, he tried to suggest he was referring not to Democrats themselves, but to their tax increase proposals.

Schwarzenegger said that Democrats had "lost every single ballot in the Bay Area" and that "the big spenders wanted to go with increased taxes, many different taxes and fees and all kinds of things and lost all of that."

"And in Los Angeles it lost. People don't want to be taxed," he said. He added: "Why would we go and follow a losing formula? It doesn't make any sense."

Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Margita Thompson said the governor was talking about ballot measures in the Bay Area and in Los Angeles that lost at the polls Tuesday.

A spokesman for Perata declined to comment on the remark.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; losers; schwarzenegger
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To: Reagan Man

Thank you...much appreciated.

Some close relatives of ours live on Lookout Mountain
in Golden near the controversial Coors family.


61 posted on 11/05/2004 8:18:57 AM PST by b9
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To: doodlelady

You're welcome.


62 posted on 11/05/2004 8:22:19 AM PST by Reagan Man ("America has spoken")
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To: Carry_Okie

So, are you saying you liked Gray-out Davis better?

At leat Ahhnold is entertaining!


63 posted on 11/05/2004 6:08:01 PM PST by NonLinear ("If not instantaneous, then extrordinarily fast" - Galileo re. speed of light. circa 1600)
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To: NonLinear
At leat Ahhnold is entertaining!

At least Ahhnold is entertaining!

(I hate it when that happens....)
64 posted on 11/05/2004 6:13:23 PM PST by NonLinear ("If not instantaneous, then extrordinarily fast" - Galileo re. speed of light. circa 1600)
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To: NonLinear
So, are you saying you liked Gray-out Davis better?

No, I'm saying that Bray Dufus was better for conservatism.

65 posted on 11/05/2004 6:33:07 PM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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