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California Recall Daily Thread (10/3/2003) 4 Days To Go
California Recall Daily Thread: Up To The Minute News ^
| 10.3.2003
| DoctorZin
Posted on 10/03/2003 8:41:34 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
In just 4 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.
If you want to be added to a ping list on the recall please freepmail me and make sure you mention that you want to be added to the "recall ping list." I will ping you once daily at the start of the thread and occasionally if there is major breaking news.
DoctorZin
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: arnold; bustamante; california; crdt; davis; election; huffington; mcclintock; prop54; proposition54; recall; schwarzenegger; simon; ueberroth
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Morford: Hasta La Vista, California
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, October 3, 2003 | Mark Morford
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:48 AM PDT by presidio9
And you thought the Jesse Ventura bobblehead was bad.
All right, so a couple "major" polls show the famous thick-necked slab of Austrian meat wielding a dangerous Conan-like lead over quivering not-as-bad-as-you-think Gray Davis.
And Schwarzenegger's bouncing around like a Hummer on meth, inflicting that weird maniacal grin and massive blocklike head all over the unsuspecting media, as pretty much the entire population of even slightly aware and intelligent people in California and in fact all over the nation go, oh holy Christ, please dear God no.
This is what's about to happen. We are on the verge of electing a new governor of the largest and most powerful state in the nation, the one with the fifth largest economy in the world and the most frighteningly intricate political infrastructure and infinitely complex and delicate network of water/energy/environment/immigrant/agriculture issues in existence, just one year after electing the last one....
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bmwcyle
(Hillary's election to President will start a civil war)
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McAuliffe: Arnold Shows Disturbing Pattern With Women
Newsmax.com ^ | 10-03-03 | Staff
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:59 AM PDT by veronica
Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who sat on his hands when his boss Bill Clinton was accused of everything from indecent exposure to rape, said Thursday that he's troubled by a report alleging that California gubernatorial front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger groped several women.
"There's a pattern of inappropriate behavior towards women," McAuliffe told CNN's "Inside Politics."
"Sure, it will have an impact" on the election, the DNC chief predicted. "I think [Schwarzenegger] needs to do more than come out and apologize. [He needs to] explain himself." ....
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News briefs on the California recall (Arnold's a bad example for your children?)
modesto bee ^ | 10-03-03
Posted on 10/03/2003 8:48 AM PDT by hoosierskypilot
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - A small group of nurses and anti-smoking activists have accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of glamorizing smoking to children and questioning whether he would stand up to tobacco companies. "He tells us about his steroid use and openly promotes tobacco," said Joy Harvey, an emergency room nurse and representative of the United Nurses Association of California. "He has abused his own body for years. Why should he care about the rest of us?"
A group of about 10 rallied out Schwarzenegger's campaign office, demanding that the Republican actor, who owns the building that houses his office, end the lease of a tobacco shop in the complex. They also criticized him for appearing on the cover of Cigar Afficionado magazine and smoking in his movies.
Schwarzenegger spokesman Rob Stutzman said Schwarzenegger has never encouraged children to smoke, noting that the cigar magazine targets older readers.
"It's an adult magazine," Stutzman said. "He believes using tobacco is matter of choice for adults, but of course he discourages young people from smoking. And he's not a cigarette smoker."
He said Schwarzenegger would not kick out the cigar store.
"He believes in free enterprise," Stutzman said....
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On the Campaign Bus with Arnold Schwarzenegger (Hugh Hewitt a Shock Jock!?!?)
NPR's Morning Edition ^ | 10/3/03 | John McChesney
Posted on 10/03/2003 8:51 AM PDT by republicofdavis
NPR's John McChesney is on the bus with California gubernatorial hopeful Arnold Schwarzenegger from San Diego to Los Angeles in advance of the Oct. 7 recall election.
An NPR report on Arnold's day yesterday. Scroll down to find title....
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Schwarzenegger the Barbarian?
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 10/03/03 | Tammy Bruce
Posted on 10/03/2003 12:50 AM PDT by kattracks
It is absolutely remarkable for me to watch the same Democratic party hacks, who stood by and supported Bill Clinton during the revelations that he was an abuser of women, pull their hair out screaming about Schwarzenegger the Barbarian....
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Beyond Recall - Can Schwarzenegger survive the Blizzard of Lies?
10/03/03 | Lowell Ponte
Posted on 10/03/2003 1:07 AM PDT by kattracks
PONTEFICATIONS
TODAY’S CULTURE WAR, WARRIORS AND TACTICS are on display in the pitched battles leading up to California’s October 7 recall vote and its expected aftermath. We can learn much about America’s new politics by examining some snapshots of this Left Coast battlefield....
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LA Slimes: Radio Host Tells of Incident With Actor
LA Times ^ | 10-3 | LA Times
Posted on 10/03/2003 1:31 AM PDT by ambrose
Radio Host Tells of Incident With Actor A campaign aide says Schwarzenegger has no recollection of alleged encounter in the 1970s. By Megan Garvey Times Staff Writer
October 3, 2003
A well-known nationally syndicated radio host on Thursday publicly described being groped and propositioned by Arnold Schwarzenegger more than 20 years ago, when she was starting in the business and he was promoting his film "Pumping Iron."
Joy Browne, a psychologist whose advice program is syndicated to nearly 200 stations nationwide, described on the radio an encounter with Schwarzenegger that took place during an interview about the documentary, which was released in 1977.
Schwarzenegger fondled her legs under the table during the interview, she said....
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Freep this poll (needs help!): KGO Radio--Yes or No on the recall?
October 3, 2003 | tame
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:04 AM PDT by tame
The following poll by KGO radio in Northern California (bay area) is seriously slanted the wrong way. The poll asks if you will vote yes or no on the recall. Please FREEP THIS POLL....
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A Deplorable October Surprise (Susan Estrich re: LA Times)
LA Times ^ | 10-03-03 | Susan Estrich
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:08 AM PDT by veronica
So this is the October surprise? The Los Angeles Times headline that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped and humiliated women?
None of the six women interviewed by The Times filed legal charges. Four of the six were quoted anonymously. Of the two who were named, one, a British television hostess, had told her story to Premiere magazine years ago, and it has been widely known and largely ignored. The other recounts an alleged incident of fondling at Gold's Gym nearly 30 years ago....
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He's the Poster Boy of Trash Politics (Schwarzenegger)
los angeles times ^ | October 3, 2003 | K.B. Forbes
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:41 AM PDT by calcowgirl
K.B. Forbes, a GOP strategist, was communications director for Bill Simon's most recent gubernatorial campaign.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the poster child for the newest form of trash politics: a political system so corrupt and undemocratic that a compulsive sexual deviant was anointed the de facto nominee by California GOP bosses in a smoke-free backroom....
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Schwarzenegger Sows Doubt Among State Environmentalists
Los Angeles Times ^ | October 3, 2003 | Miguel Bustillo And Marla Cone
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:50 AM PDT by calcowgirl
Recent remark, later clarified by aides, about the possibility of scrapping Cal/EPA only bolsters skepticism.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested this week that he would consider eliminating the California Environmental Protection Agency to cut government waste, he cemented what has emerged as a near-universal distrust of his gubernatorial candidacy among conservationists.
Schwarzenegger has made a concerted play for the environmental vote, tapping his wife's cousin, prominent conservation attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to help fashion his platform. His campaign pronouncements more closely match the environmental views of the man he wants to replace in Tuesday's recall election, Democrat Gray Davis, than those of his fellow Republican, President Bush.
Yet he has failed to sway a single major environmental organization to his side, and most conservationists continue to view the actor, famous for driving a gas-guzzling Hummer, with deep skepticism....
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Schwarzenegger Apologizes For Behavior Toward Women
The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 3, 2003 | Jackie Calmes
Posted on 10/03/2003 5:19 AM PDT by calcowgirl
As Arnold Schwarzenegger rolls north through California on what was planned as a victory caravan to Tuesday's election, he will test whether new allegations of sexual harassment threaten his new front-runner status and his hard-won Republican Party unity.
The actor, now favored in polls to replace Democratic Gov. Gray Davis if he is ousted in the recall vote, condemned Thursday's Los Angeles Times article as "trash politics" and mostly untrue. Yet he apologized for his behavior, "which I thought then was playful but now I recognize that I offended people." ....
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Clinton's Hitler Comments
NewsMax ^
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:36 AM PDT by Republican Red
He did find it bothersome, however, that Bill Clinton had a deep fascination for Adolf Hitler and his book Mein Kampf.
Clinton’s interest in Hitler was not based on the fascist leader’s anti-Semitism, but the great leadership skills of Hitler, according to Patterson.
Clinton, Patterson remembered, was intrigued that Hitler "had so much power over these people and that it had just been a short period of time since World War I where they’d been defeated, and this man had come forward and had rallied the German people." ....
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Schwarzenegger's candor
The Orange County Register ^ | 10/03/03 | Stephen Greenhut
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:40 AM PDT by socal_parrot
Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan for his first 100 days in the governor's office might not have convinced some people that he is the right man for the job, but his response to last-minute "puke politics" certainly gave the impression that the actor has what it takes as a leader....
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10/03/2003 9:47:28 AM PDT
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EternalVigilance
(Vote Sanity! Vote McClintock!)
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Actor's link to Hitler comment a hazy trail
The Chron ^ | 10/03/03 | Michael Taylor
Posted on 10/03/2003 8:24 AM PDT by socal_parrot
The allegations that Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler during the filming of "Pumping Iron" have been circulating since the actor announced his candidacy this summer, but the film's director, quoted by ABC News on Thursday, denied the story last month when contacted by The Chronicle.
ABC News and the New York Times obtained a copy of an unpublished book proposal by the film's producer and director, George Butler, that contained quotes allegedly made by Schwarzenegger in 1975 during an interview while making the movie.
In the book proposal, Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying, according to ABC News, "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it." Then Schwarzenegger supposedly adds, "like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium. And have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say."
Contacted by telephone on Sept. 11, however, Butler had said the story was "not true." ....
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