Posted on 08/29/2005 2:36:03 PM PDT by calcowgirl
When you're governor of California and need a boatload of cash in less than 80 days, you're going to be hanging out with some pretty wealthy people.
Like Rick Cronk, who paid $1 million for Dreyer's Ice Cream in 1977 and merged it with Nestle three years ago in a deal reportedly worth $2.4 billion. He and his wife, Janet, are hosts for a fundraiser for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the East Bay on Sept. 28.
Or Arte Moreno, owner of the Los Angeles Angels, who is throwing a Schwarzenegger fundraiser at the team's game in Anaheim on Tuesday night against the Oakland A's.
Or Michael Milken, the former junk bond guru who spent 22 months in prison for securities violations and is one of the nation's most prolific philanthropists.
Milken and his wife, Lori, were co-hosts at a sumptuous, $25,000-per-couple fundraiser for Schwarzenegger about 10 days ago near Lake Tahoe.
Schwarzenegger is in the middle of two months of feverish fundraising - something he once said he didn't need to do and now says he hates.
He has hit up political donors outside California, and will likely make another out-of-state swing. He has begun accepting money from trade associations with business at the Capitol despite saying he wouldn't. And he is getting the same kind of "pay for play" criticism leveled against the incessant fundraising of the man he ousted, former Gov. Gray Davis.
The principal sponsor of the Lake Tahoe event, for instance, was Larry Ruvo, a wealthy Nevada liquor wholesaler who gave Schwarzenegger $53,000. Ruvo also has been trying for several years to build a pier on his private Lake Tahoe property. One agency that could help determine the project's fate is the California-Nevada Regional Planning Agency; Schwarzenegger has two appointments to the agency's 15-member governing board.
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Arnold loves the spotlight and the money.
I forgot to put you on this ping.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473020/posts?page=2#2
Just posted on that thread. Thanks calcowgirl.
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