Posted on 08/23/2003 12:26:44 AM PDT by Pikamax
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger (news), running as a Republican for governor of California, works the crowd during a campaign appearance along Main Street in Huntington Beach, California August 22, 2003. Schwarzenegger will run in the October 7 recall election of current Governor Gray Davis. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
Republican candidate for governor Arnold Schwarzenegger talks with small business owners during the candidate's campaign visit to the Southern California coastal city of Huntington Beach, Calif., Friday, Aug. 22, 2003. Schwarzenegger met with the business people and toured local shops during a visit keyed to reforming the economy in California. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Republican candidate for governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reaches to greet a young fan as he walks down Main Street during a campaign visit to the southern California coastal city of Huntington Beach Friday, Aug. 22, 2003. Schwarzenegger met with area business leaders and met local shop owners during a visit keyed to reforming the economy in California. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Republican candidate for governor Arnold Schwarzenegger autographs a surf board during a visit to a surf shop in the southern California coastal city of Huntington Beach, Calif., Friday, Aug. 22, 2003. Schwarzenegger met with area business leaders and met local shop owners during a campaign visit keyed to reforming the economy in California. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, Pool)
But...he's a Stah, a Stah I tell you...it doesn't matter what he does, or what he thinks, he's a....
STAH!
Go Tom go!
ARNIE INDUCED MOB
FR News Network | Aug 22, 2003 | Snerfling
Posted on 08/22/2003 2:42 PM PDT by Snerfling
With a long business trip back East coming up shortly and my hair beginning to look a little shaggy, I figured lunch would be a good time to get my hair cut today.
My barber is up a couple of blocks from the beach on upper Main street in Huntington Beach. As he cut my hair, he casually mentioned that Arnie was having lunch at the Inca Grill down the street.
I remarked that perhaps I would take a drive by as I was leaving to take a look; the other barber said that would be a bad idea, since they had heard from other customers that there was a large crowd.
I was about to blow it off but at the last moment decided to walk the couple of hundred yards just to see what was going on. As I got closer, I could see the cops had blocked off lower Main street and that the news vans/helicopters were out in force.
Hmmm, this was a bigger event than I had figured. I thought it would be a regular 'meet the folks' type of staged event with a couple of people around. Instead, it was a full-blown mob scene...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., Aug. 22 -"Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped at a sidewalk cafe here in Surf City to chat today with a few local business owners, then strolled along Main Street. More than 1,000 people rushed to the scene to watch.
They climbed trees. They stood atop cars, lined balconies, stopped downtown traffic and nearly overwhelmed his security detail.
It was the first time Schwarzenegger took his celebrity gubernatorial campaign to the streets, and bedlam erupted..." - Washington Post
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Posted on 08/22/2003 2:07 PM PDT by Republican Red
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To: Republican Red
It reminds me of "The Scream" by Munch!
16 posted on 08/22/2003 2:36 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: sheik yerbouty
By God, you're right.
26 posted on 08/22/2003 4:01 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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Sorry, but this is stupid. I see big adoring crowds at GWB receptions, shall we post a picture of Hitler next to him as well? If Reagan were able to go touring around the country, you can bet he would have tons of people mob him.... would you take a little black pen and fill in the area under his nose?
Attack Shwarzy for his relative liberalness, but associating him with Hitler because he has adoring crowds is pretty stupid IMHO.
By CHARLIE LeDUFF and JOHN M. BRODER
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 Arnold Schwarzenegger came out from behind the curtain today to put some muscle in a campaign that until now was based on sheer celebrity, calling for a constitutional cap on state spending and making clear his distaste for new taxes.
Facing a horde of cameras and reporters from as far away as China, Mr. Schwarzenegger, 56, was flanked by his advisers, Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, and George P. Shultz, former secretary of state. Using humor and a few specifics, the former Mr. Olympia tried to dispel any perception that he is a movie star on a vanity project.
Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said one of his priorities, should he be elected to replace Gov. Gray Davis, would be to rein in state spending. He said he would appoint an outside auditor, John Cogan, the economist and Mr. Shultz's colleague, to look at state finances.
"We must have a constitutional spending cap and must immediately attack operating deficits head on," Mr. Schwarzenegger told a ballroom packed with reporters at the Westin Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport.
"Does that mean we are going to make cuts?" he said. "Yes. Does this mean education is on the table? No. Does this mean I am willing to raise taxes? No. Additional taxes are the last burden we need to put on the backs of the citizens and businesses of California."
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