CA: Huffington's goals include a rewrite of Proposition 13 and cuts in the prisons budget

Sac Bee ^ | 8/28/03 | Gary Delsohn

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SAN FRANCISCO -- There's a candidate running for California governor by trying to capture some of the same outsider's magic that vaulted former wrestler Jesse Ventura to Minnesota's top political job five years ago.

But it's not Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Hollywood film star and former Mr. Universe has often been compared to Ventura, but in a major speech delivered here Wednesday before the prestigious Commonwealth Club, political commentator Arianna Huffington outlined some of the same brash steps Ventura followed in his successful race to shock the political establishment and become Minnesota governor.

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Huffington says Prop. 13 is unfair
Lori Aratani
Huffington, battling for votes and trailing badly in a crowded field where the front-runners are actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bustamante, sought to portray herself as a grass-roots woman-of-the-people who would give power back to voters whose voices have been muzzled by special interests. San Jose Mercury News

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...she also unveiled plans to barnstorm the state's colleges and universities starting Sept. 8 to register thousands of new voters much the same way Ventura did.

Sorry Arianna. In Minnesota, Ventura benefitted from the fact that you don't have to be registered before voting. You can register at the polling place, and immediately proceed to the voting booth. Requiring voter registration even one day in advance would have cost Ventura the election.

Of course it's absurd to think Arianna is remotely as popular in California as Jesse was in Minnesota. But even buying her line, the voter registration situation doesn't allow the same thing.

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