California Recall Daily Thread (10/7/2003) ELECTION DAY! Be sure to vote.

California Recall Daily Thread: Up To The Minute News ^ | 10.7.2003 | DoctorZin

[DoctorZIn]

Today 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.

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The Content of Our California

Tech Central Station ^ | 10/7/2003 | Radley Balko
Posted on 10/07/2003 12:33 AM PDT by SpinMaster-Ldot

Lost in the groping, the deficit, the child actors and the general mayhem that is the California recall circus is an important ballot initiative that could do wonders for the ethnic and racial climate of a state that's about ten years ahead of the rest of the country on the demographic curve.

Proposition 54, also known as Ward Connerly's "Racial Privacy Initiative," would bar California state government from using racial classifications in its official business. Sadly, the measure seems to be losing support in the polls, perhaps in part because even Republican frontrunner Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't the courage to stand up to California's racial demagogues and publicly support it.

That's too bad. Because America -- and especially California -- is becoming increasingly blind to race. We could probably abandon race completely in a generation or two, if only our government would let us....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996511/posts

[backhoe]

Go here & scroll backwards to find everything I have on this subject:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/938629/posts?q=1&&page=217#217
Total Recall- the Gray Davis Soap Opera
various FR links | 07-01-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[AdmSmith]

Jews in Schwarzenegger's hometown dismiss Hitler flap as 'election propaganda'

VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer

Jews in Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian hometown said Monday that allegations the movie star-turned-California gubernatorial candidate ever professed admiration for Adolf Hitler are ludicrous.

"It's just election propaganda," said Feridoun Djavid, a leading member of Graz's Jewish community.

Others gathering in the community center between Yom Kippur prayer services told The Associated Press they are convinced that Schwarzenegger's opposition to anti-Semitism has always been firm and genuine.

Schwarzenegger, the front-runner in Tuesday's California recall election, struggled last week to counter allegations he once expressed admiration for Hitler's rise to power from humble beginnings.

Schwarzenegger, a Republican who became a U.S. citizen in 1984, has said he did not remember making the remarks during the 1975 filming of "Pumping Iron," the bodybuilding documentary that launched his film career. He also called the Nazi leader a "disgusting villain."

Over the years, Schwarzenegger has given generously to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Holocaust memorial group, and he even paid to have it investigate his father's past.

Last year, the center determined that his father, Gustav, was a volunteer member of Hitler's notorious brown-shirted Nazi storm troopers.

The president of the Jewish community in Graz -- the southern Austrian city where Schwarzenegger began his bodybuilding career as a teen -- said community members find the allegation of Schwarzenegger's admiration for Hitler ridiculous.

"No one took it seriously," Gerald Sonnenschein said while leading a reporter through the building that houses a modern, glass-domed synagogue on the banks of the Mur River.

"I know that he has always been pro-Jewish. He personally wrote me to congratulate me on becoming president" three years ago. "And he said he would visit the synagogue on his next visit to Graz."

Sonnenschein also said Schwarzenegger asked the community to send him a book it published about the Jewish history of Graz, located just a few miles from Schwarzenegger's boyhood home in the village of Thal.

On Saturday, Schwarzenegger's former trainer, Kurt Marnul, said the former bodybuilder was "filled with rage against the Nazi regime" and participated at least twice in organized disruptions of neo-Nazi gatherings in Graz during the 1960s.

Many from this area view Schwarzenegger as a humanitarian. They cite not only his support for the Simon Wiesenthal Center but also his work promoting the Special Olympics and his donations to a church in his home village.

"He is a very decent person," said 79-year-old Berthold Kaufmann, adding that allegations of anti-Semitism were nothing but "slander."

"And that is the general opinion here."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/10/06/international1614EDT0630.DTL

[DB]

For live election returns:

http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/

[lainde]

I can't wait!

[Caipirabob]

Vote early and vote often, mi gente. VIVA LA RAZA!

Voter fraud tips the scale. Just a preview of 2004 IMHO...

[jmaroneps37]

Where's the thread from those dopey mcperot guys?
Out buying the champagne for the big fiesta tonight I guess.

[DoctorZIn]

California Recall Live Thread

Posted on 10/07/2003 5:34 AM PDT by Sabertooth

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996586/posts

[clamper1797]

What's your take on prop 53 ???

[DoctorZIn]

Smearing Arnold So Democrats Don’t Have To (Media Shilling For Democrats With Ahnold Smears)

Media Research Center ^ | October 6, 2003 | Rich Noyes
Posted on 10/07/2003 4:13 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Arnold Schwarzenegger is no conservative, but the liberal media are smearing him as if he were. The same broadcast networks that flinched when faced with credible charges that Democratic darling Bill Clinton actually raped a woman during his 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial campaign are scrambling to give free airtime to women who charge Schwarzenegger with unwanted groping.

“I don’t remember all the details of Juanita Broaddrick,” CBS anchor Dan Rather told FNC’s Bill O’Reilly in 2001 about the woman who alleged Clinton raped her, “but I will say that — and you can castigate me if you like — when the charge has something to do with somebody’s private sex life, I would prefer not to run any of it.”

Oh, how the standards change. The CBS Evening News, which ran only one story on Broaddrick’s charges in 1999 — and on a weekend, when Rather was not sitting at the anchor desk — has hit the Arnold sex charges in each newscast since Thursday....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996551/posts

[DoctorZIn]

State of California to be given intelligence test 10/7/03

Fly so Free
Posted on 10/07/2003 4:39 AM PDT by fly_so_free

The state of California will take an intelligence test on 10/7/03. The questions being posed to the residents are:

1. Are you as stupid as the democrat party thinks you are?

2. Or, will you save your state?

Today is the big day- so California: Are we stupid? We will soon find out. I am voting for Ahnold. To be honest, at first I was against the re-call .But, seeing the frenzy the dems are in- trying to stop Arnold- , it must be the best thing to do....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996555/posts

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[clamper1797]

Never mind ... The Coco times says that Torkalson -D from Antioch says no on both Prop 53 and 54 ... I therefore will vote yes to each

[DoctorZIn]

If Davis is recalled, then what happens?

cnn ^ | John Mercurio
Posted on 10/07/2003 5:10 AM PDT by twittle

The California recall campaign ends Tuesday, but if you think it's been confusing until now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

With the specter of Florida 2000 fresh in their minds, both political parties are preparing for post-election legal wrangling that could throw the election back into court and leave Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, in office into mid-November, whether he survives the recall or not.

"Absolutely," state Democratic Party spokesman Bob Mulholland recently told the Modesto Bee newspaper, when asked about the party's preparations for a national drive to raise $100,000 for possible legal challenges.

"We're going to do everything that's legal to have the votes counted in California, and we're putting the Republicans on notice that we're prepared for their goon tactics this time."

Both parties are bracing for a long night Tuesday and additional confusion Wednesday, in part because of the wide array of voting processes being used in the state's 58 counties.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996566/posts

[DoctorZIn]

Tonight might not be the end of election

Los Angeles Daily News ^ | 10/07/03 | Troy Anderson
Posted on 10/07/2003 5:27 AM PDT by kattracks

With absentee ballots flooding into Los Angeles County and state election offices, experts said Monday that, if the recall vote is close, it may take several days before the outcome is clear.

The large number of absentee ballots also could complicate recount efforts. And some are warning a recount could be virtually impossible because of the widespread use of touch-screen voting machines that don't offer paper receipts.

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Conny McCormack said her office probably would need several days to process the tens of thousands of absentee ballots delivered to polling places and to her Norwalk office today. Counties have 28 days after the election to count absentee and provisional ballots received at polling places on election day.

"We are just trying to get ready with all these absentee ballots that have come in," McCormack said. "So many have arrived over the weekend that we won't be able to get them out of the envelopes and count them until (tonight)." ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996578/posts

[Coop]

There's an election today in California? Really? What are you guys voting on?

[DoctorZIn]

Budweiser Pays for Davis and Bustamante

Newsmax ^ | 10/6/03 | Staff
Posted on 10/07/2003 5:33 AM PDT by Maria S

Anheuser-Busch is shilling for California's corruption-plagued Democrat establishment, according to Slate. After launching into a lengthy attack on Arnold Schwarzenegger, Slate columnist Mickey Kaus today wrote that Sunday night he got a "strange" phone call taped by sore loserman Al Gore urging people to vote against the recall and (wishy-washy as ever) for Cruz Bustamante just in case those awful "right-wing Republicans" oust the greedy guv.

At the end of the message, according to Kaus, a woman's voice says: "Paid for by Progressive Democrats and Independents against the recall. Major funding by Anheuser-Busch." ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/996584/posts

[BJungNan]

I registered at a table that was set up outside Home Depot. The person at the booth said the registration would be filed and I would get something in the mail.

Nothing has showed up. Do I just go to the polling place or am I unable to vote?