Posted on 09/09/2005 1:25:39 PM PDT by calcowgirl
SACRAMENTO — Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to announce next week he is running for re-election, sources said Thursday, as Democratic lawmakers continued passing bills that the governor plans to veto.
Ignoring legislators' scramble to wrap up their 2005 session today, Schwarzenegger traveled to GOP-friendly Fresno on Thursday as he continued campaigning for his Nov. 8 special election to revamp state government.
In the Legislature, bills addressing key issues to the public — such as a multibillion-dollar transportation bond — remained shelved until next year at the earliest.
The developments came in the wake of polls that show Californians aren't very happy with any of the state's politicians or their actions these days.
The disclosure that Schwarzenegger is imminently planning to make public his run for governor next year, after capturing the office two years ago in an unprecedented recall election, came from sources close to Schwarzenegger after a Washington, D.C., newspaper report.
"He'll announce sometime between today and the convention next weekend," a GOP official told the Roll Call.
Prominent Republicans expect Schwarzenegger to make the announcement sometime before next Friday, the opening day of the state GOP's annual fall convention. But he faces stiff competition from the leading Democratic candidates — state Treasurer Phil Angelides and Controller Steve Westly.
Schwarzenegger's strategists hope the declaration will boost weak public support for the governor and his special election initiatives, which would alter government spending, make it harder for teachers to gain tenure and immediately overhaul political boundary redistricting to break Democrats' control.
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I'll be back!
Vill Ahnode veto the DRs for Illegal Aliens?
Why dont you do something this time around?
Fire 1 out of every 5 state employees, freeze budgets, stop illegals, lower taxes, reduce welfare benefits, deny all services to illegals, ...for starters
He'll have my vote in the general election.
He has my vote as well
I'm glad he is going to veto the sodomy-only marriage law recently passed.
I hope he will veto the illegal-alien-driver's-license law recently passed.
I hope he will be so disgusted with the antics of the extreme-left legislators, that he recognizes the error of his social-liberal leanings.
Some people just don't realize, you can't be socially liberal and fiscally conservative at the same time.
September, 1999 -- FAIR
In a transparent effort to appease ethnic interest groups, newly elected California Governor Gray Davis has used a blatantly rigged legal maneuver to overturn the will of 5 million California voters and kill Proposition 187, the law that banned state funded non-emergency benefits for illegal aliens.
California's Proposition 187, a voter-sponsored initiative, was passed in 1994 by 59 percent of the vote. Opponents challenged its constitutionality, and immediately got a favorable ruling from U.S. District Court judge Mariana Pfaelzer. The judge used tortured reasoning to block the law, and many observers felt her decision was unlikely to survive on appeal.
We tried
I was listenting to talk radio last night and a caller was asking the guest about Arnold's unpopularity, and the host said something about Arnold's "eroding popularity." Then I heard some political expert commenting on the news story about Arnold running again talk about his unpopularity. It struck me, isn't the whole "he's so unpopular" mantra the result of the continued smear campaign against him by the unions and teachers? I don't hear regular people complaining, just political hacks, union jerks, and talk radio hosts. It's amazing how perceptions sometimes become reality. Is he really that unpopular?
The ongoing radio/tv ad attack against Arnold has been long and merciless.
YES ON PROP 75 TO STICK IT TO THE UNIONS
Besides Davis, the only governors to fall below Schwarzenegger's current 37 percent approval were Pete Wilson, at 33 percent in September 1992 and May 1993, and Pat Brown, at 35 percent in October 1961. Despite those low numbers, both won re-election.
Can we afford him?
Some people just don't realize, you can't be socially liberal and fiscally conservative at the same time.
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Only actors can get away with it. :)
A million here, a billion there...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1480741/posts
Runaway Film Bill Hits Snag - State lawmakers balk ...
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's script to stem runaway film production in California with as much as $100 million in annual tax breaks ...
Considering the movies and declining box office revenue, they need all the help they can get..
LOL
Pretty soon you're talking real money.
He'll lose.
There were an awful lot of freepers who wanted to elect Bustamonte (sp?) instead of Arnold. OK, they did not put it in those terms, but supporting the number three vote getter is the same thing.
Yea, I know. Knowingly voting for a loser keeps your integrity intact. Unfortunately, it also speeds the takeover by the left and the downfall of anything we cherish. Does anyone think that they Gay Marriage bill would have been vetoed by Bustmonte?
What a crock of bull.
Bustamante never had a chance and no one at FR was working to get him elected.
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