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Schwarzenegger Special Election speech - transcript (or listen)
Join Arnold - transcribed ^ | November 8, 2005

Posted on 11/09/2005 5:24:38 PM PST by calcowgirl

Thank you.

[Cheers]

Thank you very much. Thank you all. Thank you....welcome.

Thank you, it's great to see you all here. Thank you so much for coming. I really appreciate it. You know, there are so many people that I want to thank here tonight. So many people.

First of all, I want to thank all of the people of California. I want to thank them... I want to thank those who voted for our propositions, and also I want to thank those who did not vote for our propositions. I want to thank them for being part of the process. So thank you very much. Thank you.

[Cheers]

And, uh, believe it or not, I even want to thank the people who were so passionately vocal against us. I guess I didn't do a good enough job to convince them otherwise.

But of course, I also want to thank all of you in here and I want to thank the people all across this great state. Because I have traveled up and down the state of California and I have seen the hardworking volunteers. I have seen the thousands of people out there working the phone banks, knocking on doors, and working in the offices, putting up the yard signs. Even children, painting signs, Welcome Arnold, Welcome Governor, and so on. It is wonderful. And I am so proud to call you all my friends. And how California is so lucky to have you as citizens.

[Cheers]

And, of course, I want to thank Maria. I want to thank Maria.

[Cheers]

Maria, I know... Maria, I know that this campaign has been tough on you and tough for you. I know there is a lot of time I could have spent at home with you and with the children if it wouldn't have been for that campaign. And I know how hard it has been for you and the children to watch all those negative ads and the negative ads about me. So I want to say thank you very much for all your love. Thank you very much for all of your support and thank you for being the greatest friend that anybody in the world could have.

[Cheers]

Thank you.

You know, the other day... the other day, I was in Bakersfield. It was Sunday. And I said to the people in Bakersfield, I say, "I want you to go to the polls on Tuesday... I want you to go to the polls on Tuesday with a big smile and vote Yes on those propositions." And tonight is Tuesday. Tonight is Tuesday. And I am sorry to tell you that I cannot really tell you how much we should smile. I don't know because we don't have all the results in yet. You see, we don't know... with some propositions that are ahead. Some propositions are behind. So we don't know, we have to wait a little bit. But I have great hopes. So let's just wait until tomorrow, I guess, for the results.

But anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing those results. But no matter what the results are, I want to tell you, and what I said to my staff the other day on the plane. I said to them, that in a couple of days, the victories or the losses will be behind us. And whether we win, lose, or draw, whatever the outcome is there is one thing we will do. We are going to continue to make California a better place for our citizens here and for our people of this great, great, state. We are going to make it again... we are going to make California again the golden state that it once was.

[Cheers]

You know, the other day something wonderful happened to me on the campaign trail. I was in Walnut Creek and we were having a debate, a Town Hall meeting, and there was Senator Perata. Senator Perata there, presenting his case, to the people, hundreds of people sitting out there. And then after that, I presented my case. And then afterwards, we met back stage. And he came up to me, and looked me in the eyes, smiling and he shook my hand. Shook my hand and he said to me, he says "Governor, I cannot wait until this election is over so I can sit down with you and start working with you again to improve our state."

And it really touched me. And I said the same to him. I said "you know, even though we are on opposite sides but you can see there is no personal animosity. We are going to work together." I said "I am looking forward to working with you also."

And this is a very important that we move our state forward. This is exactly the same reaction I got from the Speaker today. I talked to Speaker Fabian Nunez. And he had the exact the same reaction. He said "Let's work together--As soon as this is over, let us go and work for the state of California."

And all of the other leaders... all the other leaders... the legislative leaders say the same thing. So, I'm looking forward to this Thursday. Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will get together in Sacramento with me which we call the Big 5 meeting. And we are going to go and find common ground. We are going to talk about reforms of how to move our state forward. We are going to ask to make sure that we going to bring new ideas to the table. Big ideas. Radical ideas. I always said, the bigger the better. So I'm really looking forward to that meeting.

And then right after that meeting, I'm going to leave for China. I'm going to leave for China for a trade mission. China is the largest growing market in the world and I want to increase California's business with China, because, it will mean jobs for our people, it will mean extra revenues for our state. And when I return from Asia, we will get down to business. Oh, yes. Because there is much work we have to do. Much, much work has to be done.

[Cheers]

We've got to rebuild... we've got to rebuild our infrastructure. It is so much that is needed.

We need more roads. We need more bridges. We need more highways. We need more hospitals. We need more schools. We need more nurses, more teachers, more firefighters, more police officers. We need more affordable housing. We need more energy, more water. We need more of everything. And I recognize that we also need more bipartisan cooperation to make it all happen. And I promise I will deliver that.

Because Californians believe that the state is on the wrong track. Californians believe that we need reform, we need change. But the people of California are sick and tired of all the fighting. And they are sick tired of all those negative TV ads.

Tomorrow... But, tomorrow, we begin anew. I want to close here this with a personal note, not with a political note. I feel the same tonight as that night two years ago when I was elected Governor. You know, with all my heart, I want to do the right thing for the people of California. Oh yes, I want to do the right thing.

[Cheers]

I... I tell you, I feel so... I feel so honored and I feel so privileged to be your Governor. I feel so honored and so privileged to be able to serve you. And I promise you, from the bottom of my heart, that I will continue to work as hard as I can to make you proud of me. I'm going to continue to work... we are going to make this state ... we are going to make this state ...the greatest state of the greatest country in the world, again.

[Cheers]

So I want to say thank you very much to all of you for coming. Thank you and for your warm support and for the incredible hard work that you've put in there. And thank you for being such great Californians. Thank you, very much. Thank you. Thank you.

[Cheers]


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: arnoldtranscript; bigideas; calreform; election2005; radicalideas; schwarzenegger; specialelection; thebiggerthebetter; thinkingbig; transcript
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To: SierraWasp
Why, every one knows its a code word for surrender to the Democrats. The only difference is, we'll have a nominal GOP governor implementing their agenda for them.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

21 posted on 11/10/2005 11:27:21 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: FOG724; calcowgirl; Amerigomag; Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp
"I don't think he will ever get the message."

Then he can live with the results. He masqueraded as a conservative reformer/cost cutter during the Recall so he sure as hell doesn't deserve any further conservative support. If he doesn't get off his ass and start fulfilling all of those earlier promises damned soon, I'm done with him. I couldn't care less that he's got a big "(R)" after his name. Deliver or get the hell out. How's that for a "message"?

22 posted on 11/10/2005 11:32:16 AM PST by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Czar
Agreed. Like the old saying has it, its time to fish or cut bait. I don't think Arnold will cut spending. I will be very surprised if it happens. If it doesn't and he keeps naming liberal Democrats to top posts in his Administration and to the courts, no one is going to be motivated to work for his re-election. It all begins and ends with him now - the buck stops on his desk.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

23 posted on 11/10/2005 11:36:40 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Czar
He masqueraded as a conservative reformer/cost cutter during the Recall

That's the problem, it was a masquerade and every conservative knew it. However we were repeatedly told that we had to pick him since a conservative couldn't win. Couple this with the falst hope that he might actually do some of this stuff and you have yourself an elected governor.

24 posted on 11/10/2005 11:36:41 AM PST by FOG724 (http://gravenimagemusic.com/)
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To: FOG724
"Couple this with the falst hope that he might actually do some of this stuff and you have yourself an elected governor."

That only works once. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..."

You know the rest.

He really doesn't need to move "further left" to be unelectable; all he has to do to acieve that status is merely to continue on his present "do nothing but talk" course.

25 posted on 11/10/2005 11:45:41 AM PST by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Czar
He really doesn't need to move "further left" to be unelectable; all he has to do to acieve that status is merely to continue on his present "do nothing but talk" course

Thanks God cause I don't think I can handle 4 more years.

Course this means having another Dem as governor because the Rinos in the party leadership will deep six any conservative just to say, see we were right in pushing Arnold and you should have supported us.

26 posted on 11/10/2005 11:52:02 AM PST by FOG724 (http://gravenimagemusic.com/)
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To: FOG724
"Course this means having another Dem as governor because the Rinos in the party leadership will deep six any conservative..."

There is no easy fix for this problem. A good start, however, is to starve the GOP Big Tent of all dollars, donating only to individual conservative candidates. Believe me, the RNC is beginning to feel the heat on donations. I respond to all solicitations with a peso note.

27 posted on 11/10/2005 12:43:07 PM PST by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Czar
A good start, however, is to starve the GOP Big Tent of all dollars, donating only to individual conservative candidates.

I like this idea!

28 posted on 11/10/2005 12:48:49 PM PST by FOG724 (http://gravenimagemusic.com/)
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To: SierraWasp

"bi-partisan cooperation". Hmm... I think you'd like to answer that question for me, Sierra Wasp. ;> Have fun.


29 posted on 11/10/2005 2:35:08 PM PST by Alia
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To: calcowgirl; forester

Humboldt County voted against those measures by 65% on average!!!


30 posted on 11/10/2005 4:47:35 PM PST by tubebender (Chris Matthews suffers from "IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE"...)
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To: tubebender

El Dorado voted for 73-77 by landslide proportions!!!


31 posted on 11/10/2005 9:33:31 PM PST by SierraWasp (The only thing that can save CA is making eastern CA the 51st state called Sierra Republic!!!)
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