Posted on 07/11/2006 10:47:31 AM PDT by calcowgirl
OAKLAND — They were not on stage together, but they came as close as these electoral rivals probably ever will.
State Treasurer Phil Angelides set aside his bid to unseat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for a few moments to agree with his Republican opponent that the state's voters should pass the $37 billion infrastructure bond package.
Even the few slight jabs he did throw in Schwarzenegger's general direction failed to incite a response from the Join Arnold campaign.
"This bond package will not be an issue in this gubernatorial campaign," Angelides told a crowd of local officials, including Assemblywoman Wilma Chan, D-Oakland. The Democratic nominee was also joined by Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, who appeared in front of the Caldecott Tunnel with the governor as he signed the bond package in May and has promoted the package throughout the state with him.
Standing at the Oakland-Alameda Ferry terminal with the Port of Oakland's gargantuan cranes as a backdrop, Perata ticked off the various benefits the borrowing package would bring to the state, including right in the neighborhood.
"The Port of Oakland will be enriched by this bond," Perata said, explaining that programs funded by the bonds could help pay for better port security and better environmental protection in and around the facility.
Perata and Angelides also praised the bond's ability to rebuild roads, shore up levees, improve transit and modernize schools.
"This bond package is the beginning of an investment in California's future," Angelides said.
But backing a program that helped lift Schwarzenegger out of the doldrums of last year's failed special election puts Angelides in the awkward position of helping his opponent.
Even at Angelides' own rally, fellow Democrat Perata added Schwarzenegger's name and title to the list of reasons voters should pass the borrowing package and take heart that partisans in Sacramento are cooperating with each other.
"We have turned around the negativity in this state. We've heard people talk about how we're on the right track. Now all we need is the right direction," Perata said, urging voters to choose Angelides to make that course correction.
Angelides preferred to bestow most of the credit to Perata for getting Propositions A through E approved in Sacramento, and said that his support for rebuilding the state's infrastructure was nothing new.
"I'm only doing what I've always done, which is to work to improve California's infrastructure," Angelides said. "He's running for re-election. He's trying to save his own job."
Schwarzenegger campaign spokesman Matt David did not criticize the challenger.
"The governor talked about his vision for California in his (January) state-of-the-state speech, focusing primarily on rebuilding California's infrastructure," he said. "It's important that everyone campaign for passage of the infrastructure bond so that we can continue to move California forward."
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Arnold is prettier.
Angelides being pro-bondage should certainly help him in Southern CA...
Arnold votes no on the car tax
Arnold votes no on increased gas tax
Arnold votes no on drivers licenses for illegals
Arnold votes no on increased taxes on business
Arnold votes no on increased state income taxes
Arnold votes no on state funded socialized health insurance
Arnold is for reduced taxation of the film industry
Arnold is for increased power plant construction
Arnold votes against any give-a-ways to the teachers union
Angelides would vote opposite on all of those items. Enough reason not to vote Angelides.
Yep--mostly with the Villaraigosa bunch who pushed for billions in inner-city rail projects included in the Transporation bonds.
2) "The Port of Oakland will be enriched by this bond..." Well, well...a government bailout for the Longshoremen's Union. Imagine that. I see an awful lot of idle cranes and empty berths over there. Most of the traffic seems to be bypassing Oakland and going to Seattle or Long Beach.
So, I'm sure looking forward to hearing when both candidates propose a $37B cuts package!
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A tax that was illegal and was in the courts to be repealed.
Arnold votes no on increased gas tax
BS. Arnold supports carbon taxes.
Arnold votes no on drivers licenses for illegals
Which was on its way out by referendum anyway.
Arnold votes no on increased taxes on business
And hits them with increased "fees" instead.
Arnold votes no on increased state income taxes
And raids local revenue forcing them to do it.
Arnold votes no on state funded socialized health insurance
But wants "free care" for the children of illegals.
Arnold is for reduced taxation of the film industry
LOL, that's HIS pocketbook.
Arnold is for increased power plant construction
So he says. His environmental plan speaks otherwise. See: "carbon tax."
Angelides would vote opposite on all of those items. Enough reason not to vote Angelides.
Not enough to vote FOR Arnold.
Angelides has guaranteed he will sign a bill allowing homosexuals to marry each other.
Angelides is a step back to the $25,000 per audience for your issues.
He is a Gray Davis Democrat.
I am voting NO on every measure but roads and parental notification.
He vetoed gay marriage also.
Arnold has signed six bills giving gays marriage in all but name. He has been deemed the most "pro-gay" governor in history, certainly more so than Gray Davis.
Next?
>>I am voting NO on every measure but roads and parental notification.
How about Prop 90, stopping Eminent Domain abuse, strongly supported by property rights groups, Tom McClintock, and the Pacific Legal Foundation?
http://www.protectourhomes2006.com
Prop 85 also appears worthy of a Yes vote.
http://www.jessicaslaw2006.com
I'll be voting NO on the $18 billion transportation bond. It has very little to do with roads and includes a whole lot of pork.
Perhaps, but such BS civil unions are NOT transferable across state lines. (attmpts have been rejected in TX, CT, FL and GA just off the top of my head)
With that said, Agelides is still a step backwards. Ahnold can not be governor forever. It is best to put your ducks in order, rebuild the party and set up true conservatives to gradually take over.
Right now CF is a mess. Whining about Ahnold is for the french.
Not true. I never heard about its illegality and it was vetoed long before it made it to the courts. Arnold saved us (me) some money.
Arnold votes no on increased gas tax- BS. Arnold supports carbon taxes.
Never heard that. If it were true, they'd have given us it already.
Arnold votes no on drivers licenses for illegals- Which was on its way out by referendum anyway.
Nope- Gill Sedition-illo, has presented it over and over. It hasn't gone away by referendum. There is another vestion of it in committee as we write.
Arnold votes no on increased state income taxes- And raids local revenue forcing them to do it.
No they didn't. There was no tax increase the in the last state budget.
Arnold votes no on state funded socialized health insurance But wants "free care" for the children of illegals.-
Which we already have in the form of the "Healthy Families" initiative. I am in the Health Insurance business in California. Shiela Commie-Keuhl presents socialized bills for total health health care over and over. Arnold is the only person standing between her and that legislation.
Arnold is way different than Angelides.
If Arnold wins he will continue to destroy the CRP from within. I don't think that small difference is worth it when Republicans will bear the blame for the results of Arnold's fascist policies.
I need to read that one. My city has used eminent domain to great advantage in cleaning up my neighborhood and our downtown. I want cities to be able to have recourse against absentee landlords who don't maintain their properties preventing up badly needed redevelopment projects by holding out for a better price.
I'll read the transportation bond. If it isn't for freeway consctruction I will likely vote NO.
You are absolutely right.
Gays are FURIOUS at Arnold for vetoing gay marriage, the biggie.
He's also vetoing gay promotion in textbooks.
Whatever puts a chink in the militant gay agenda, will most certainly NOT be put there by Angelides.
Tom McClintock agrees.
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