CA: Governor kicks off campaign effort - Event draws 150 Republican Party faithful

The Orange County Register ^ | September 10, 2006 | JOHN GITTELSOHN

[calcowgirl]

COSTA MESA – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off a "Pump up your vote" campaign effort Saturday with a speech before about 150 Republican Party faithful at the Orange County Fairgrounds.

"The volunteers are so excited and we like having him in Orange County," said Mary Jean Duran, a public relations consultant and Republican activist from Newport Beach. "He should come here every week."

But Alexandria Coronado, a member of the Orange County School Board, said the turnout was small for Orange County, a Schwarzenegger and Republican stronghold.

Despite advance publicity online and in e-mails, people stayed away because the campaign demanded donations, she said.

"We could have filled that arena over there if this were free," Coronado said, pointing to the fairgrounds concert stands.

Campaign aides barred the media from the rally because it was a private fundraiser.

On Saturday, Schwarzenegger spoke while standing in front of a recreational vehicle with green and orange logos of his campaign and Generation Next, a Newport Beach group of young Republicans who have raised $350,000 for Schwarzenegger, according to the group's co-founder, Sinan Kanatsiz.

[Parley Baer]

As it turns out Arnold is the lesser of two evils. So living here in California I will vote for him as the other choice is a full on disaster.

[ncountylee]

My nose clips are ready.

[kingu]

Rental at the Orange County Fairgrounds is pretty high; why they'd hold a pay to play rally there, I don't understand.

[NormsRevenge]

It's cool, Man.
;-)
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Generation Next putting the 'party' in Republican Party ^

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1431396/posts

[kingu]

Ahh, yes, we've a few technocans in our neighborhood as well.

Hey, did you hear? Richard Mountjoy is running against Diane Feinstein.

[calcowgirl]

Aha! They even got their log on the bus! I wondered what that "NEXT" was.

[kellynla]

150? 150?...in the heart of the GOP, Orange County, California...150?
and they were at the Orange County Fairgrounds? 150?
does anybody know how LARGE the Orange County Fairgrounds is? 150?
that's like taking 150 BB's and throwing them in a 55 gallon drum!ROFLMAO


hell I can get more than a 150 bodies for Monday night football!

I hope RINOld didn't take any pictures!(have to be some reeeel tight shots)

if any one is paying attention...which conservatives in O.C. aren't...RINOld is about as popular around here as a ham hock at a bar mitzvah...