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Posted on 08/23/2005 6:00:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is seldom upstaged, but it could happen Thursday when one of his chief legislative rivals flies south of the border to hold private meetings with Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez said he plans to make the trip -- and miss one of the few legislative sessions remaining this year -- in an attempt to repair relations with California's largest trading partner. Schwarzenegger has been sharply criticized by Mexican media and politicians for supporting private border patrols to curb illegal immigration.
``The tension between the governor and the Mexican government began to boil after his comments about closing the border and supporting the Minutemen. Those things really cemented the idea that I needed to go to Mexico,'' Núñez said. ``I grew up there, I lived there for eight years as a child and I speak the language fluently. I am the perfect person to build a bridge between Mexico and California.''
Filling a vacuum
But with the special election in November approaching, the trip also has a political dimension and could serve to rally the state's Latino voters to oppose the governor's ballot initiatives.
``The governor has spent very little time in Mexico and the speaker is filling the vacuum,'' said Jaime Regalado, who directs the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University-Los Angeles. ``This trip and the meeting with President Fox, it takes something away from Arnold. All things that lead to a weakened governor will have some effect on the November special election.''
Schwarzenegger's press secretary Margita Thompson dismissed that notion.
``We have robust binational discussions,'' Thompson said. ``We are bound to Mexico by ties of culture, commerce and family . . . and the governor has a wonderful relationship with the border governors.''
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Great. Just what we need.
Hey, Arnie....'state of emergency.' -wink, wink-
"It's not a political stunt." ,, Nunez re: his trip.
Keep him! We don't need these open border anti-American fools.
``The governor has spent very little time in Mexico and the speaker is filling the vacuum,''
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Vacuum? Our state is OVERRUN WITH MEXICANS!!! WE HAVE ALL THE MEXICAN IMMERSION WE NEED. In fact we need alot less of it. Tell this illegal-living fool to take his MEXICAN PANDERING somewhere else...we get enough of that from Washington...
A Mexican appeaser upstaging Arnie? Not a chance. That's like saying Cindy Sheehan is upstaging Bush in Iraq.
geez and i'll bet this little trip is not going to be paid on his dime is it.
>> I am the perfect person to build a bridge between Mexico and California.
We have plenty of bridges to Mexico.
We need a wall.
Hey, Fabian! Don't come back!
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