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Schwarzenegger: McClintock a Pawn of Pro-Bustamante Indians
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| Spet. 19, 2003
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 09/19/2003 8:52:17 PM PDT by FairOpinion
American Indians who are supporting Democrat front-runner Cruz Bustamante in California are also promoting Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, and GOP front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger is furious.
"I think that as far as Tom McClintock is concerned, I think the question I have for him is, what side is he on?" Schwarzenegger said Thursday. "Is he on the side of the Republicans? Does he represent the Republicans, or does he represent Bustamante?"
Schwarzenegger suggested that the tribes were abetting Bustamante by trying to split the Republican vote.
"They are financing his commercials and TV spots and all that," said Schwarzenegger, who doesn't take money from Indian tribes. "He knows they're financing him not because they want him to be governor. They just want to interfere with the process so that Bustamante wins. He has to decide which side is he on, the Republicans' or Bustamante's."
McClintock called Schwarzenegger's comments "a ridiculous statement by a man who obviously hasn't paid much attention to California public affairs. ... For 20 years, I have fought to protect sovereignty on reservation lands, well before there was gaming.
"If they wanted to hurt Schwarzenegger, they would be making an independent expenditure to hurt Schwarzenegger, and Lord knows there's plenty they could hurt him with."
Assemblyman John Benoit, R-Palm Desert, a Schwarzenegger supporter, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise: "I think the idea of divide and conquer is a tried and true tactic. I can't speak for the Indians, but if there was somebody looking to help Bustamante, this would be the way to do it."
TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bustamante; contribution; indians; mcclintock; mcwampum; schwarzenegger; tribal
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To: Robert_Paulson2
Public knowledge, Robert. Look it up.
To: BobS
Very good for you!
To: AppyPappy
I already answered your question. I outta make you look, but, "When that pig flies I will vote for that pig!" - Okay - did you read it this time. Now - virginian listen - if every conservative in the state turned out and voted for McX he would still lose. Is that a simple enough message for you?
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posted on
09/20/2003 4:34:00 PM PDT
by
68 grunt
(3/1 India, 3rd, 0311, 68-69)
To: EternalVigilance
I've been around here a long while and support FReeping because it does cause folks to think. Maybe we disagree about the direction this state should take, but it's a BIG financial and insurance thing for us. The illegal alien CA license thing is over the line, too.
324
posted on
09/20/2003 4:41:47 PM PDT
by
BobS
To: BobS
All of those things are all well and good.
But you're allowing yourself to get sucked into using the insults of the left on conservatives.
Let's call it Schwarzenegger collateral damage.
To: 68 grunt
Would you vote for Gray Davis if he were a Republican?
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posted on
09/20/2003 4:44:50 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: BibChr
So, Dan, are you going to answer my #319?
To: EternalVigilance
Not to me.. please post it.
It would be interesting.
To: Robert_Paulson2
No need for me to post it.
It is common knowledge here that Warren Buffett has given lots of money to Hillary, Planned Barrenhood, and lots of other liberal candidates and causes, and that Arnold calls him 'my close friend and mentor'.
Same goes for Riordon.
I have a policy. Never waste my time looking up links for you guys. Do it yourself.
To: AppyPappy
Forget a buncha 'would youse' and lemme ask you 'will you' continue silly hypotheticals all night? You didn't understand my simple statement addressed to you, did you? Read it again, and ask me any of the words you're struggling with.
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posted on
09/20/2003 4:51:55 PM PDT
by
68 grunt
(3/1 India, 3rd, 0311, 68-69)
To: EternalVigilance
But you haven't addressed the blood-money from Arnold's 'close friend and mentor' once. Or Dick Riordon, who has been quite generous with California Democrats. In my Senate district, Riordan even supported Richard Alarcon, a Democrat so left wing that he used to raise money for the Communist Party.
331
posted on
09/20/2003 4:53:37 PM PDT
by
Roscoe
To: 68 grunt
Would you vote for Gray Davis if he were a Republican?
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posted on
09/20/2003 4:53:57 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: EternalVigilance
Like I thought...
thank you for NOT suprising me with hard data on dollars and dates... you made it up... as I thought.
... and of course, rather appropriate.
To: AppyPappy
NO...
To: 68 grunt
Would you vote for Gray Davis if he were a Republican and was in a "domestic partnership" with Arnold Schwarzenegger ?
335
posted on
09/20/2003 4:56:27 PM PDT
by
Roscoe
To: AppyPappy
Nope - but you're buggin the wrong person, I like Arnie. I take pride in it!
336
posted on
09/20/2003 4:57:06 PM PDT
by
68 grunt
(3/1 India, 3rd, 0311, 68-69)
To: 68 grunt
Would you vote for Arnold if he were a democrat?
337
posted on
09/20/2003 4:59:11 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: Roscoe
That, sir or madam, was over the line. Insulting and homophobic, intolerances which the party has already been bagged upon for.
338
posted on
09/20/2003 4:59:34 PM PDT
by
68 grunt
(3/1 India, 3rd, 0311, 68-69)
To: Robert_Paulson2
If I spent MY time chasing links for you guys concerning things that are common knowledge, you'd have me chasing links to prove that the sky is blue in July at noon in Omaha.
Take a hike. I have no time for someone who wants conservatives 'thrown out of the GOP', and is full of enough hubris (aka BS) to think he can somehow make that happen.
To: AppyPappy
Did I get on the wrong page, somehow? Isn't asking the same silly question considered a form of spam? Or are you just teasing? Poking the beast through the cage, so to speak?
340
posted on
09/20/2003 5:01:11 PM PDT
by
68 grunt
(3/1 India, 3rd, 0311, 68-69)
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