Posted on 08/31/2005 2:03:20 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is beginning to sound like Candidate Schwarzenegger, hinting in interviews that he plans to run for re-election in 2006.
The Republican governor could announce his plans as soon as mid-September, around the state GOP convention and after the Legislature adjourns for the year. At the same time, he will be ramping up a campaign for three ballot initiatives set to go before voters in a Nov. 8 special election.
"I think he needs to do it for two good reasons," said Bill Whalen, a fellow at the Hoover Institution who worked for former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson. "It will invigorate the Republican base, which he sorely needs to do if he has any chance to win the special election. And it sends a positive message to the donor community that he's not going to cut and run."
Schwarzenegger has fooled political prognosticators before, and few can say for certain what his announcement will be.
Two years ago he surprised nearly everyone, including many of his own advisers, when he announced on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" that he would run to replace Gov. Gray Davis in the state's historic recall election.
Since taking office in late 2003, Schwarzenegger has been vague about whether he would seek a second term. But recently, amid sagging poll numbers and little public support for his reform initiatives, the governor has begun signaling he won't give up on the job anytime soon.
"I am not here for the short run. I am a follow-through guy," he told Sacramento radio host Tom Sullivan in a call-in program last week.
Later, he told a television reporter he might agree soon to an interview about his re-election plans.
"I don't walk away from things that I think are unfinished," Schwarzenegger told KCRA-TV in Sacramento.
The hints of an impending announcement come as the Hollywood star and former body building champion struggles to burnish his image after months of criticism from labor unions and Democratic activists. Since launching his "year of reform" in January, he has been dogged by protesters, denounced in television spots and criticized for his fundraising practices.
His decision to skip next week's opening of the University of California, Merced, the first new UC campus in 40 years, has only added to the perception that the governor is under siege.
Still, GOP strategists said they have been urging Schwarzenegger for months to announce his re-election plans — in part for the sake of the ballot initiatives.
Without an assurance that the governor wants to remain in office, state Republican officials said they fear he will have a hard time generating support for implementing a state spending cap, changing the way legislative districts are drawn and making teachers work longer to get off probation.
Democrats contended the initiatives are little more than a Republican power grab.
"This special election is about Arnold Schwarzenegger's agenda, and it's the platform for his re-election," said state Treasurer Phil Angelides, a Democrat planning to run for governor next year.
LOL.. I think ya had Carry_Okie in mind, or post#77..
but this in a way only confirms that I irritate you so much, you'll do anything to discredit me. I'm flattered , don't get me wrong.
:-)
and Yes, when your taxes and mine jump..
just put your ear to the wind and listen for another refrain of You were warned. lol
Why... Oh why... Have you been having this battle of wits with such an unarmed man???
Why... Oh why... Have you been having this battle of wits with such an unarmed man???
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I been married for 20 years.
I'm a glutton for punishment, I reckun. ;-P
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PS.. I got him all set to vote for Tom for Lt Gub next year so be nice, LOL
I notice none of the Schwartzie Swooners has challenged, or trie to bet me that I'm wrong about Schwartzie baby taken his toys and goin home and leavin the CAGOP high and really dry for 2006 like his co-star in Predator, the failed MN Governor, Jesse "the body" Ventura of WWF infamy after just one miserable term... Even you haven't ventured a comment.
Are you afraid I might be wrong, or that I might be right, or are you so danged disinterested that it's neither here, nor there???
Surge for the Sierra: Governor (Schwarzenegger) approves massive conservancy (25 MILLION ACRES)This link will give you most of the articles, although there is tons of content in the posts, as well.
The Union ^ | September 24, 2004 | Dave Moller
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy has power to control land use, usurping (questionable) local authority to a State agency and you have no problem with it. It is capable of socializing 65% of the water in this State, thus eventually forcing urban water users to pay for treated water requiring vast amounts of energy, which is why the Natural Resources Defense Council, the supposedly "green" group of oil and gas investors responsible for Arnold's environmental plan, is all for it, as they are for his incredibly wasteful hydrogen highway and solar roof programs.
I get it, you LOVE political corruption. Then Arnold is your man.
Brutal, man! Astute though.
Protect the Sierra Nevada. A decade of hard work by a broad variety of stakeholders resulted in the Sierra Nevada Framework, a policy document that has been widely hailed as a model of forest ecosystem resource protection. As Governor, I will direct all relevant state agencies to comply fully with the Framework and call on the federal government to honor its pledge to abide by the policies set forth in this unprecedented compact.The Sierra Nevada Mountain Range is one of the state's crown jewels. Yet, unlike many of California's other natural treasures, it has no conservancy. As Governor I will propose establishment of a Sierra Nevada Mountains Conservancy.
I think he must have said something on another thread to get himself banned.
He seemed no different than the other liberal party operatives trying to selling us on Arnold's liberal platform(R).
Oh gad!!! Now he's picked up an athletic supporter!!! You'll now hafta untie the other half yer brain from behind yer back!!! (snort!)(snicker)
Okey Dokey, then. Unarmed, indeed.
How you like my new tagline???
It doesn't even matter if solar roofs, hydrogen highways, etc. ever come to fruition. He and his DFA buddies are makin' plenty pumping and dumping the stock in their bogus companies.
Flinch? You call this a flinch? LOL.
He's flinched on over 90% of his supposed promises, especially if you weight them accourding to their magnitude!!! He's the biggest FLINCHINATOR in the universe! Isn't that "fantastic?"
flinch
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: flinched, flinch·ing, flinch·es
1. To start or wince involuntarily, as from surprise or pain. 2. To recoil, as from something unpleasant or difficult; shrink.
NOUN: An act or instance of starting, wincing, or recoiling.
ETYMOLOGY: Obsolete French flenchir, of Germanic origin.
flinch
NOUN: An act of drawing back in an involuntary or instinctive fashion: cringe, recoil, shrink, wince. See APPROACH, SEEK.
VERB: To draw away involuntarily, usually out of fear or disgust: blench1, cringe, quail, recoil, shrink, shy1, start, wince. See APPROACH, SEEK.
capitulate
INTRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: ca·pit·u·lat·ed, ca·pit·u·lat·ing, ca·pit·u·lates
1. To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms. 2. To give up all resistance; acquiesce. See synonyms at yield.
ETYMOLOGY: Medieval Latin capitulre, capitult-, to draw up in chapters, from capitulum, chapter. See chapter.
capitulate
VERB: To give in from or as if from a gradual loss of strength: bow1, buckle, submit, succumb, surrender, yield. Informal : fold.
I tried to watch a little of ABC's 20/20 with John Stossel, but it was such an abject cresendo of putrid propoganda columnating with the radio blastphemy of that New Orleans Mayoral hypocrite... That I had to come back in here and do this!!!
That is excellent!!!
Yep... Grovelnator always fits.
I don't remember seeing FOGGER's suggestion... unless you mean the 'endangered golfer'? ;-)
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