Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger insisted Wednesday that the direction of his administration won't change with the appointment of Democrat Susan Kennedy, a top aide to former Gov. Gray Davis, as his new chief of staff.Posted on 11/30/2005 8:37:00 PM PST by SmithL
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger insisted Wednesday that the direction of his administration won't change with the appointment of Democrat Susan Kennedy, a top aide to former Gov. Gray Davis, as his new chief of staff.
Introducing Kennedy at a 2 p.m. Capitol news conference, Schwarzenegger said he got to know Kennedy over the last two years through her job as a Davis appointee to the Public Utilities Commission. After considering various candidates, the Republican governor said, he concluded she's willing to put her "Democratic philosophy aside" and "implement my vision."
"The one I came back to over and over again was Susan Kennedy," he said.
Kennedy told reporters her views don't differ that much from Schwarzenegger's, given that she is a moderate Democrat and he is a moderate Republican.
"There's not a lot of light between us," said Kennedy, who said she voted for all four of the ballot measures Schwarzenegger backed in the Nov. 8 special election. Those measures would have given the governor more budget-cutting powers, made it more difficult for public employee unions to raise political cash, made teachers work longer before earning tenure and taken political redistricting out of the hands of the state Legislature. Voters defeated them all.
Kennedy said that after 25 years in the political trenches for Democratic candidates, she has grown tired of partisan wars.
"This is not a time for California to hunker down behind partisan labels," Kennedy said. "The bottom line is that I believe in this man...and where he wants to take California...
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Once again, we've been sold out by the "big tent" Liberal RINOs.
Do they really think anyone will buy this crapola?
...the direction of his administration won't change with the appointment of Democrat Susan Kennedy...
He's already bent over backward to keep the dems happy in 2 budget cycles..
Not good
That's because Maria kept whispering Susan's name into his ear, over and over, while he slept!
I just love how some are screaming that this is what happens when Republicans don't get out and vote. How about this was going to happen anyway! I had to hold my nose and vote for that watered down tenure prop. arnold always bows down to the dems.
Touche!
Repeat a lie enough times... Y'know, it's amazing. If Stalin were alive today, the media would call him a moderate. Yet, Jesse Helms, Rev. Falwell and Pat Robertson are the "extremists."
I suspect Schwarzeneggar and McCain are preparing to reactivate the Reform Party under different management and a different name. (I think they'll go back to early American history and revive the old Federalist Party label.)
This would be a party of the Radical Middle, unbeholden to the devoutly religious on the Right and the unions on the Left. It would be conservative on fiscal issues and liberal on social issues, i.e. the perfect mix for a suburban party. It would draw moderate Republicans and moderate-to-conservative Democrats out of their respective parties and splinter both parties simultaneously. Freed of ties to special interests, it could propose truly radical solutions to our problems.
I also suspect that the McCain-Feingold law was put together precisely for this purpose and that this plan has been in the making for years.
Maybe I'm up past my bed time, but what you said makes perfect sense to me.
She's also a homosexual who "married" her "partner" in some kind of ceremony. She's a homosexual activist.
ROFL! I think if we just move both on the bar, leftward, we'll have it about right. She is a Rabid Democrat, and he is a liberal with an "R" by his name.
She was quoted in 2005 as saying she was a "Democrat to the core". Given she and Arnold are "on the same page," I think we can finally categorize him appropriately.
Well, let's see - - she's a recovering alcoholic, a lesbian who "married" her companion, and a long-time liberal Democrat activist, and he's the governor of California. Yep, same page.
Hmmm. Interesting. A "party" with no base, no core convictions, and no direction.
Yeah, that oughta work.
Show me how any social Liberal is going to be fiscally conservative. They're mutually-exclusive goals. All it takes to turn a social-liberal/fiscal-'conservative' into a social-liberal/fiscal-liberal is an pair of sad puppy-dog eyes and another moronic "it's for the chiiiiiiiiildreeeeen!" wail.
And that's exactly what Perot had in '92. Had he not flip-flopped on his participation in the race, he could well have won that election with no more than 39% of the vote.
Governing would have been difficult, but that would have been a problem for another day.
Eh, you know the saying. You sleep with one Kennedy, you've slept with 'em all.
Excellent point.
As a suburbanite, I classify myself as a fiscal conservative and a social libertarian. (I don't have a problem with all those things that upset the Religious Right.) A new party of the Radical Middle would appeal to suburbanites if they don't wimp out on national security.
Kennedy?????
A little nepotism here, perhaps?
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