Posted on 11/02/2005 7:26:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO — While focusing on a conservative audience Tuesday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launched an assault against unions and Democrats by accusing them of "dirty" campaigning and lying about the initiatives he supports on next week's ballot.
The governor's complaints came as the California Nurses Assn., one of Schwarzenegger's chief critics, unveiled a new 60-second radio advertisement featuring actor Warren Beatty encouraging a vote against the governor Nov. 8.
"Don't give him more power," Beatty says in the ad, which is running in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
In an interview, Beatty, a longtime Democratic activist, said the governor's plans would unfairly burden working people — nurses, teachers, firefighters — and could "ripple back through the country.
"This is really kind of anti-New Deal stuff," Beatty said. "This is scapegoating people that shouldn't be scapegoated."
The governor, traveling to the Republican areas of Palm Springs, Bakersfield and San Luis Obispo, spent much of the day complaining about his opponents' tactics. He said unions are afraid their members will support Proposition 75, which would require yearly permission before spending dues for political campaigns.
"This is why they are getting very dirty with their campaign. It's all scare tactics that you see on television," Schwarzenegger said on KFMB-AM (760) San Diego. "It's that. 'The governor wants a power grab; that he wants to take money from education; he wants to hurt the nurses and the firefighters.' It's all untrue."
In mocking tones over the past few weeks, his union opponents have dubbed Democrats who support Schwarzenegger "Benedict Arnolds" and jostled a Schwarzenegger supporter at a recent union rally. They likened the governor to Dr. Evil, Boss Hogg, the Wizard of Oz, Daddy Warbucks, Tonya Harding, the Joker, former Gov. Pete Wilson, and rapper Vanilla Ice, all in one news release.
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Warren Beatty in Senator Bulworth's sequel
True Liars
The Machine Revealed
How about:
Red Planet
Ernest Stuck on Stupid
Bull$hit II (as in Bullworth)
Ahhnold certainly has his liberal moments and there is much to criticize but he really gets the ire of those I seriously dislike....so he will get my vote again. Plus, the unions are corrupt as hell they need a good spanking.
Sputtering, frustrated Democrats *PING*
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