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Warren Buffett Joins Schwarzenegger's Team
Reuters ^ | Wed August 13, 2003 03:35 PM ET | Adam Tanner

Posted on 08/13/2003 6:33:16 PM PDT by ckilmer

Warren Buffett Joins Schwarzenegger's Team Wed August 13, 2003 03:35 PM ET

By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Arnold Schwarzenegger added financial heavyweight Warren Buffett to his team on Wednesday as California officials set about finalizing the longest-ever list of candidates in the state's recall election.

"I have known Arnold for years and know he'll be a great governor," Buffett, one of America's best-known and most respected investors, said in a statement. "It is critical to the rest of the nation that California's economic crisis be solved, and I think Arnold will get that job done."

Democrat Gray Davis, unpopular because of the state's record budget deficit, faces the first recall vote against a California governor in the state's history on Oct. 7. Should voters recall him, the alternative candidate with the most votes will take over the richest U.S. state.

After a blast of publicity following his surprise announcement a week ago Wednesday, actor Schwarzenegger has in recent days concentrated on putting together his team, many of whom are veterans of former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson's administration.

In a move that could add gravitas to the campaign, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Buffett will help Schwarzenegger assemble top experts to advise him on the economy, the campaign said.

Schwarzenegger "has been meeting with advisers, talking with individuals who will be joining his campaign and laying out goals and priorities for his proposals he will be laying out as the campaign moves forward," spokesman Sean Walsh said.

Earlier on Wednesday, a report in the Los Angeles Times said Schwarzenegger had "shaken up" his campaign team, but Walsh denied that characterization.

"We are simply adding people to this campaign to make sure this campaign can operate as fully and as effectively as possible. There is no staff shake up, there is just the addition of people to make sure this campaign is world class."

Responding to criticism that the star of the "Terminator" films has avoided taking positions on tough issues, Walsh said Schwarzenegger would detail his proposals in the coming weeks.

CALLS TO CLINTON

Meanwhile, the final list of candidates was due later on Wednesday, but state election officials said they had already rejected several dozen applications as incomplete.

Among the 171 pending or certified candidates were Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and diminutive television actor Gary Coleman. Porn actress Mary Carey (real name Mary Cook) also made the ballot, pledging to wire every room of the governor's mansion with live Web cams if she wins.

More conventional candidates include Republican Bill Simon, who ran against Davis last November and lost, and California's No. 2 state executive, Lt. Gov Cruz Bustamante, a Democrat.

Gov. Davis has adopted a "rose garden" strategy of trying to stay above the political fray and show voters he was doing his job rather than campaigning.

"The governor is focused on governing," a top aide said. "He is not running against Arnold Schwarzenegger."

The aide said Davis has often sought advice in recent days from Bill Clinton, one of only two U.S. presidents impeached by the House of Representatives. Clinton was later acquitted by the Senate over the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.

The Davis aide said the former president advised his fellow Democrat to stay above the fray, focus on the recall process rather than make it a personality contest and avoid sparring with Schwarzenegger.

An aide to Clinton at his New York office said he had previously scheduled a visit to California in September, although no rallies with Davis have yet been announced.


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1 posted on 08/13/2003 6:33:16 PM PDT by ckilmer
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-campaign2002/962280/posts
2 posted on 08/13/2003 6:38:14 PM PDT by Commander8 (Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16)
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To: ckilmer
You can bet that Buffett has his own agenda.
3 posted on 08/13/2003 7:05:43 PM PDT by hgro
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This is the SAME Buffett who said the Bush tax cuts are bad....so, will he advise Arnold to cut taxes?
4 posted on 08/13/2003 7:06:57 PM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: Impeach the Boy
no he'll advise him to turn biomass into oil for ten dollars a barrel, cut insurance premiums on small businesses and cut government saleries.

meanwhile monetary and fiscal policies will grow the economy and the tech sector will come out of hibernation to refuel the california economy and refill government coffers.

the deficit will be gone in 3 years max but likely much less.
5 posted on 08/13/2003 7:12:39 PM PDT by ckilmer
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Are you on DRUGS?...Buffet supported Hillary Clinton. He says tax cuts are bad (a STUPID thing to assert)....Buffet is probable evidence that Arnold will be little more than democrat-lite....I will SAVE your post, and feed it back to you in crow pie.
6 posted on 08/13/2003 7:15:22 PM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: ckilmer
You are such an optimist.
7 posted on 08/13/2003 7:15:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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Considering the wag-the-dog advise Bubba is going to give Davis, if I lived in any state bordering California, I would be worried about cruise missiles.
8 posted on 08/13/2003 7:15:58 PM PDT by Ronin (Qui tacet consentit!)
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" Warren Buffett Joins Schwarzenegger's Team "

Huh? Isn't Warren Buffet a Socialist?

9 posted on 08/13/2003 7:19:09 PM PDT by NH Liberty
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To: NH Liberty
Flaming.
10 posted on 08/13/2003 7:20:54 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
Steve Forbes and Arthur Laffer also joined the Schwarzenegger team today.

Are they leftists?

11 posted on 08/13/2003 7:25:23 PM PDT by sinkspur (Get a dog! He'll change your life!)
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No, just dumb.
12 posted on 08/13/2003 7:27:14 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
No, just dumb.

You're funny, EV. And increasingly irrelevant to this entire discussion.

13 posted on 08/13/2003 7:31:47 PM PDT by sinkspur (Get a dog! He'll change your life!)
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And Buffet's agenda is a liberal one. That's where the lion's share of his contributions goes. Not three months ago, he was Koppel's sole guest, arguing against Bush's tax cuts. The liberal media fawns over him constantly.
14 posted on 08/13/2003 7:33:58 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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"...also joined the Schwarzenegger team today."

In what capacities?

15 posted on 08/13/2003 7:41:20 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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In what capacities?

I dunno. Heard it on the radio.

Maybe Arnold's just looking for guys who will work for free.

16 posted on 08/13/2003 7:43:14 PM PDT by sinkspur (Get a dog! He'll change your life!)
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"Not three months ago, he was Koppel's sole guest, arguing against Bush's tax cuts."

Buffet has a pile of dollars. He wants the value of those dollars to go up. Cutting taxes has made the dollar go down. Clinton/Rubin raising taxes made the dollar go up. This is the way it always is. Look at the advice the IMF gives to Argentina or Russia when their currency is declining. Raise taxes. Each and every time.

Lowering the value of the dollar as Bush did was exactly the right policy. A sky high dollar was killing American manufacturing, mining, and agriculture. It was the only way. There is a time and place for every style of fiscal policy. In this time and place, Bush was 100% correct and Buffett 100% wrong.

Nonetheless I bet he will give Arnold good advice. The Governator of Cali has nothing to do with the level of the dollar. Buffett will tell Arnold to do what he has done to every business he has managed or advised. When you are in financial trouble, cut expenses as a first step.

17 posted on 08/13/2003 7:44:33 PM PDT by ImpeachandRemove (impeach and remove dennis the menace:))
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To: sinkspur
You're funny, EV. And increasingly irrelevant to this entire discussion.

Yeah?

I think the facts I have brought to the debate are very relevent.

Schwarzenegger is surrounding himself with liberals and hacks...confirming everything I've warned about for the last week.

18 posted on 08/13/2003 7:44:47 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance
Schwarzenegger is surrounding himself with liberals and hacks...confirming everything I've warned about for the last week.

Forbes is a hack? Arthur Laffer, father of Reagan's supply-side tax cut, is a hack?

Your warnings have me literally quaking, EV.

You're a very funny man.

19 posted on 08/13/2003 7:47:42 PM PDT by sinkspur (Get a dog! He'll change your life!)
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Steve Forbes and Arthur Laffer also joined the Schwarzenegger team today.

I shouldn't have to remind you that Art Laffer, in spite of his credentials as one of the original supply-siders, campaigned for Slick in 1992.

20 posted on 08/13/2003 7:50:18 PM PDT by logician2u
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