California Recall Daily Thread(8/14/2003): 54 Days To Go

California Recall Daily Thread: Up To The Minute News ^ | 8.13.2003 | DoctorZin ^ | 8.14.2003 | DoctorZin

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Welcome to the California Recall Daily Thread.

In just 54 days, the people of California will choose a Governor and as a result set a course that will affect the future of the state and our country in profound ways.

This thread has been created to keep us all informed of the important developments.

I invite you to post all the major recall stories here or if it has already been posted, then add links to these posts. We welcome discussions of the candidates, the issues, campaign strategy, the polls, etc. Please be civil in your comments.

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Join Us at the California Recall Daily Thread-- August 14, 2003

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[ambrose]

Wake me when Candidate Arnold has an actual platform.

Don't worry, they're working on it! I'm sure they've got focus groups running night and day now, fine tuning that platform.

[EternalVigilance]

LOL...you guys are killing me!

Thanks for the smile before I retire...

[risk]

We pulled the whole "who's a rino and why we all want to recall Gray regardless" discussion out of the locale=california area and put it here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/963747/posts

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Ingraham: Democrats Whine, Democracy Shines

www.LauraIngraham.com ^ | August 13, 2003 | Laura Ingraham
Posted on 08/13/2003 8:13 PM PDT by MNLDS

Democrats Whine, Democracy Shines
By Laura Ingraham

"I think it insults democracy in this country. It's wrong." --John Kerry, on the California recall.

"This is an attack on the institutions of our government. That's what Republicans do." --Dick Gephardt, in the echo chamber.

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Arnoldian Standards (GOPers playing dumb about Schwarzenegger's obvious liberalism)

American Spectator ^ | 08/14/03 | George Neumayr
Posted on 08/13/2003 9:57 PM PDT by Pokey78

Republicans ravenous for pyrrhic victories are playing dumb about Schwarzenegger's obvious liberalism

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963761/posts

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An open letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger

WND ^ | 8-14-03 | Jane Chastain
Posted on 08/13/2003 11:18 PM PDT by tallhappy

An open letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger
By Jane Chastain
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Dear Arnold,

I love your movies and your enthusiasm for the things for which you care deeply. However...

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Recall ballot offers 135 choices to replace Davis
AP

SACRAMENTO — Voters will have 135 candidates to choose from to replace Gov. Gray Davis in California’s historic recall, the secretary of state’s office said Wednesday after certifying the ballot.

The final list was whittled from 247 would-be governors who submitted papers to run in the Oct. 7 special election, disqualifying 112 potential candidates because of incomplete paperwork.

The one-of-a-kind ballot will likely surpass any previous number of gubernatorial candidates in one election, which would probably be fewer than a dozen, said Bruce Cain, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

“There’s nothing comes close,” Cain said. “I think it’s fair to say it’s a record, and probably a national record.”

The final list of candidates contained the well-known, the anonymous and the offbeat.

The state’s 15 million voters will get to see a sample ballot from the first Assembly district, said Doug Stone, a spokesman for the secretary of state. The names will be rotated in each of the 80 districts by a randomly selected alphabet system selected Monday to eliminate potential advantages of those with names near the top.

The election is expected to cost up to $67 million and deficit-strapped counties are tapping emergency reserves, using money budgeted for the March primary and hoping the state makes good on its previous history of paying for special elections.

With 55 days until the election, some of the expected front runners were plotting strategy, making appearances and taking shots at the competition.

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who gave his campaign $1 million Tuesday, recruited billionaire investor Warren Buffett as a senior financial and economic adviser, the latest in a number of personnel moves by the Republican’s team.

The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway is a Democrat and will bring together other business leaders and economists to address the state’s financial issues, said Schwarzenegger spokesman Sean Walsh.

“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,” Buffett said in a statement.

Davis appeared with a group of abortion rights activists in San Francisco to announce his support for five bills before the Legislature that would expand sex education for teenagers and improve access to emergency contraception. The crowd cheered when he reaffirmed his commitment to reproductive choice.

“In my first inaugural address, in January of 1999, I said to those who would deny a woman’s right to choose, ’don’t waste the Legislature’s time because it will not happen on my watch’ — and I have kept that promise,” Davis said.

Davis told reporters he has taken counsel recently from former President Clinton, saying, “I find his advice wise, useful and I frequently adopt it.”

Several of Davis’ strongest supporters announced plans for a broad grass roots anti-recall campaign aimed at everyone from environmentalists to seniors to union workers.

A coalition of groups including the Sierra Club, the California National Organization for Women and the California Congress of Seniors, have agreed to help the governor through mass mailings and phone banks, said Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.

Political commentator Arianna Huffington said she will campaign with Green Party candidate Peter Camejo to push a progressive agenda. Both candidates said they will consider stepping down if the other pulls ahead in polls.

“The way things are looking now, it’s much more likely that I’ll be the one that will have a real chance of winning,” Huffington said. “If Peter somehow catches fire, I’ll consider it.”

Huffington railed against Schwarzenegger, who has become the early front runner in the latest polls.

“This is a man who’s a Bush Republican and therefore would be the kind of governor that would introduce the same polices to California,” she said.

http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article.cfm?issue=08-14-03&storyID=24396

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Recall ballot offers 135 choices to replace Davis
AP

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Arianna, the Preachy Progressive

Associated Press, La Times | 8/13/03
Posted on 08/14/2003 4:35 AM PDT by billhilly

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Schwarzenegger's liberal views leave GOP flummoxed; pro-choice, pro-gun control and pro-gay rights

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 08-14-03
Posted on 08/14/2003 6:08 AM PDT by Brian S

Schwarzenegger's liberal views leave GOP flummoxed Actor is pro-choice, pro-gun control and pro-gay rights...

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Bush's Terminator [fascinating dish on Ahhnold & Riordan]

OpinionJournal.com ^ | 14 August 2003 | Robert Novak
Posted on 08/14/2003 6:25 AM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast

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TOM MCCLINTOCK DAILY - 8/14/03

Posted on 08/14/2003 7:55 AM PDT by Rabid Republican

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Consumer Group Warns Gov. Davis Should Not Deliver Half-Loaf On Privacy To Save Himself From Recall
releases.usnewswire.com ^

Posted on 08/14/2003 8:15 AM PDT by chance33_98

Consumer Group Warns Gov. Davis Should Not Deliver Half-Loaf On Privacy To Save Himself From Recall

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Appraising Arnold [Newsweek Magazine Calls Schwarznegger 'the Ultimate Metrosexual']

Newsweek Exclusive ^ | Martha Brant
Posted on 08/14/2003 8:27 AM PDT by harvest

Yes, Arnold is the ultimate Metrosexual.

He not only wrestles with his soul over bikini waxes-as he told Jay Leno and the world-but he also has a dilema over his toenails.

If he does not get regular pedicures, he gets angry. And you wouldn't like him when he's angry.

Oh, sorry wrong superhero. Anyway our mutual pedicurist told me about how he had gotten mad at her once when he was in the hospital and she didnt make it to his bedside to give him his regualr toe job.

The next time he came by her Beverly Hills shop, he pounded on the glass, demanding to know where she had been.

Let's hope he is euqally demanding of lawmakers in California if he becomes governor.

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The California Recall Election Offers an Important Lesson in Politics

ToogoodReports.com ^ | 08/14/2003 | Lee R. Shelton IV
Posted on 08/14/2003 5:52 AM PDT by sheltonmac

How anyone can claim to be uninterested in politics is a mystery to me. The political arena—or, more appropriately, the political circus—is getting more and more entertaining all the time, and the upcoming California recall election could very well turn out to be the Greatest Show on Earth. (My apologies to Phineas Taylor Barnum and James Bailey.)

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Remember Speaker Brulte? Cruz Must Lose – California Recall
8-14-03

Posted on 08/14/2003 8:49 AM PDT by tallhappy

The Republicans blew it at every step of the way. They made mistake after mistake after mistake.

-- Willie Brown, January 1995

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