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CA: Big-Ticket Drive Supports Gov.'s Agenda
LA Times ^ | 2/9/05 | Robert Salladay and Peter Nicholas

Posted on 02/09/2005 8:53:03 AM PST by NormsRevenge

SACRAMENTO — For $100,000, you can sit at the head table with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, hobnob at a reception beforehand and pose for pictures with the Republican governor.

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Billed as "An Evening with Governor Schwarzenegger," invitations to four upcoming events were handed out Tuesday to lobbyists and business interests in Sacramento. They showed that proximity to the Republican governor comes in four varieties: $10,000, $25,000, $50,000 and $100,000.

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"What's so frightening about it is this is Gray Davis revisited," said state Sen. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough). Davis, whom Schwarzenegger ousted in the 2003 recall election, was derided for his prodigious fundraising while in office.

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The invitation to the upcoming fundraisers said a "Dinner Chair" to the events could be purchased for $100,000 to get "head table seating with the governor for four guests" plus four additional seats in the audience, eight tickets to a reception, and four photos with the governor.

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Guest were asked to check a box next to their level of giving; $10,000 was the minimum. MasterCard, Visa and American Express were accepted, according to the material, which included this addendum: Citizens to Save California "is not controlled by the governor or his agents, and therefore contributions are not subject to any contribution limits."

One person who attended the Sacramento meeting Tuesday said there were about 50 businesspeople, lobbyists and trade association executives at tables of 10, eating a beef-and-mushroom dish and vegetables. Schwarzenegger invoked an early 20th-century predecessor, reformer Hiram Johnson, in describing his sweeping proposals for change. The governor also said he wasn't doing the job to get rich or become famous, noting that he was already both.

"He flavored himself as Hiram Johnson," said the guest, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because Schwarzenegger had requested that the meeting remain private.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: agenda; bigticket; calgov2002; california; drive; governor; hiramjohnson; supports

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