McClintock Offered a Deal from Arnold Camp?

Belly of the Beast Blog ^ | September 11, 2003 | Eric Hogue

[Eric Hogue 1380 KTKZ]

I'm hearing from a 'solid source' that State Senator Tom McClintock has been offered a deal by the Arnold Schwarzenegger camp.

From what was offered to me, McClintock would become a State Controller by proxy - heading up a blue ribbon committee - overseeing the audit of the state's budget and financial matters.

[Eric Hogue 1380 KTKZ]

I'm hearing from a 'solid source' that State Senator Tom McClintock has been offered a deal by the Arnold Schwarzenegger camp.

From what was offered to me, McClintock would become a State Controller by proxy - heading up a blue ribbon committee - overseeing the audit of the state's budget and financial matters.

From my sources, it seems that Tom McClintock would remain as the State Senator for District 19 while he was directing this committee.

The Arnold Administration would want him to find the waste, complete the audit and offered solutions to fix the problems for California.

No report on whether the State Senator has been offered this deal, or would agree to such a deal, from the McClintock Campaign Headquarters.

[Fred Mertz]

You must be a Dim or a Ross Perot type, right?

[DoctorZIn]

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[joesnuffy]

If he takes the deal and then some...he will be remembered as the man
who put his constituents ABOVE personal ambition...(or some such)
If Ahnold then willingly throws HIS weight behind Tom in a Senate bid
Tom has a chance...
Its a win - win for everyone..
And the best deal Tom can get .....hope he takes it....
For everyone's sake
He made his point...he got his gain...established support for a Republican Senate Bid....
A brilliant move...now he has got to do the best thing for all concerned
Back Ahnold...with a smile...

[okie01]

"You must be a Dim or a Ross Perot type, right?"

He's the messenger. And it's a perfectly logical message, even if we may not like it.

[My Favorite Headache]

He should take the deal.

[Reagan79]

Forget that! I recommend McClintock kick Arnold's butt in the campaign time that is left. Arnold is way to far to the left. Even for California Republicans.

[Partisan Hack]

No Need to Exerpt:

I'm hearing from a 'solid source' that State Senator Tom McClintock has been offered a deal by the Arnold Schwarzenegger camp.

From what was offered to me, McClintock would become a State Controller by proxy - heading up a blue ribbon committee - overseeing the audit of the state's budget and financial matters.

From my sources, it seems that Tom McClintock would remain as the State Senator for District 19 while he was directing this committee.

The Arnold Administration would want him to find the waste, complete the audit and offered solutions to fix the problems for California.

No report on whether the State Senator has been offered this deal, or would agree to such a deal, from the McClintock Campaign Headquarters.

[Partisan Hack]

Meant to say: "WORTH A REPEAT!"

[Weimdog]

Courtesy of justshe:

~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life (Chapter 26, p. 171)

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.

"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.

"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'

"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Eric your "solid source" is wishful thinking and trying to invent compromise where none exists. (R)nold already has a State Controller by proxy, and nothing in his background suggests he would step away from that position for some know it all Conservative.

[deport]

Damn he better hurry and accept.... at 7% he'll soon be out of negotiating percentage points....

[Reagan79]

Well we know according to Arnold's own ideology, Ronald Reagan is one of those "radical conservative Republicans." There was never any doubt of Reagan's conservatism, but with Arnold it's not just the liberals he has surrounded himself with, but his own warped platform he has stolen from the DNC handbook.

[Keyes2000mt]

"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.

What percentage are you guys getting if Arnold raises taxes? What percentage of the Conservative agenda is raising taxes? What percentage of the Conservative agenda is more restrictions on firearms? What percentage of the Conservative agenda is more government?

If we're getting 20% rather than 2%, do we consider that a good deal even if your Republican Governor supports Democrat ideas at an alarming rate. Arnold would give us 30% of what we want in a perfect world. In a world of compromise, he may give 15 or 10%

[WOSG]

Arnold is ahead of McClintock, hardly credible to expect that to change. Unless Arnold pulls out, the moderates will go Arnold anyway even if McClintock gains among conservatives, and Arnold's anti-Tax pro-budget cutting message is appealling to the fiscal conservatives in the state ...

Anyway, a split GOP vote will let Bustamante CRUZ TO VICTORY.

:-(

Unity is Strength.

[SteveH]

That would actually be a nice outcome in a way, if Tom could find enough in it for him to go with it...

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

What percentage are you guys getting if Arnold raises taxes? What percentage of the Conservative agenda is raising taxes?

Don't know the %, but its gotta be high to make up for that -$38.2 billion tax and spend debt he wants to take care of...somehow he won't say.

[strela]

I'm hearing from a 'solid source' that State Senator Tom McClintock has been offered a deal by the Arnold Schwarzenegger camp.

McNugget had best hurry up and accept Schwarzenegger's offer, for his poll numbers are going down faster than a Tijuana prostitute when the fleet's in town. See today's Knowledge Networks poll at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/980761/posts. Looks like his pizza and salad fund raiser fiasco was the last straw for thinking California voters - he could again be Mister Four Percent before this is over.

Unless he wants to return to wherever losing political candidates go when they're not spending their constituent's money (and a few of his looney tune boosters back to whatever bunker they came from), McNugget and his supporters should get on the winning team, shut their mouths, and let the adults run things.

[NormsRevenge]

Tom has already done this type of detailed work before. Look at the 1995 State Budget report done over 7 years ago as well as Tom has championed the BRAC legislation passed unanimously recently by the senate.

Why would he want to be the monkey on the organ grinder for Arnold when he is eminently qualified to finish the work he is already intimately familiar with and let Arnold get the credit?

Oh, that's right .. Arnold is a leader. Yup , a leader with a string of moderates and groupies feeding his Hollywood ego and mouthingmany of Tom's already defined fixes for this state.. LOL

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I recommend McClintock kick Arnold's butt in the campaign time that is left.

And then, Reagan79's alarm clock woke him from his slumber...