Posted on 10/27/2006 8:38:28 AM PDT by SmithL
There was a time, a generation before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested Bonnie Garcia is "hot" and she quipped she wouldn't kick him out of bed, when only her hairdresser would have known for sure.
But discretion be damned; the Cathedral City assemblywoman dispenses with the mystery at the start of a luncheon speech to a Rotary Club in this Imperial County town near the U.S.-Mexico border.
"These are extensions," she said, lifting her faux brown tresses and joking that they make her look skinnier. "That's always good for the cameras, you know."
The only Republican Latina ever elected to the Legislature knows something about camera angles. Ever since the governor's comments stirred up a tempest two months ago -- which Garcia revived with her "bedtime" story to a high school class -- she's received more media exposure than any assemblywoman in memory.
Whether that works to her advantage in one of the rare competitive legislative races in the state will be decided by voters on Nov. 7. But the publicity she's gotten amuses supporters.
"She's eating it up, and why shouldn't she?" said Imperial County District Attorney Gilbert Otero, who praises her service to constituents. "And she is hot."
Garcia, 44, has spoken about her breasts and panties on the floor of the Assembly -- in political context, she maintains. She takes umbrage at suggestions she enjoys the public attention her comments have wrought.
Growing up in a family of Seventh-day Adventists, Garcia said she has always had conservative leanings that are counter to her public image.
Since Sept. 8, when the Los Angeles Times published recorded excerpts of a Schwarzenegger meeting with his inner circle, the divorced mother of two college students said she has shed "many tears."
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Ok, then. Pictures?
That shocked and embarrassed high school students? Maybe only becasue they consider her too "old."
If that picture's any indication, those kids were so "shocked and embarrased" that they lapsed into a state of preternatural calm that resembled typical teenage boredom.
I wouldn't kick Schwarzenegger out of my bed either....
I WOULD ponder for a brief moment why the Governor of California has broken into my house and is asleep in my new king-sized bed....
...then I'd just shoot him like any other burglar.
The Dems must be desperate...esp. if they're using photos of Bill Clinton asking for new interns for their ads...
Those kids are embarrassed because because she prefaced that remark with "I know that you're thinking...", and they are all wondering, "how did she know?"
Today's extra-credit assignment will be...
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