[EternalVigilance]

By the way, in my search for which candidates Arnold and Maria gave money to nationally, those were ALL I found...in other words, the ONLY donations I could find were to Democrats...nary a one to a Republican in the last seven years.

Perhaps I'm missing something?

[pogo101]

First off, I checked www.opensecrets.org, and I find only 3 contribs by Arnold in the 2004, 2002 and 2000 election cycles -- all $1000 to the aforementioned failed-in-primary candidacy of Mark Shriver. But it turns out you were being deceitful. You posted contribs by Maria, clearly implying they were by Arnold himself, in a discussion focusing (or, once focusing on) whether Arnold is or is not more liberal than Riordan.

I don't see any ARNOLD contribs to a Democrat other than Mark Shriver unless I go all the way back to 1991-93, when he gave a grand to Joe Kennedy Jr. -- and a grand each to the CA GOP and Bruce Herschensohn. To answer your question, I don't like that Arnold's contribs to the GOP are light, at best, at least in the monetary sense. But once one filters out your deceptive inclusion of Maria's contributions, it's not nearly AS bad. In any event, to try, AGAIN, to get back to the original point: Isn't it true that Riordan's contributions to Democrats over the same period is much more than these somewhat troubling Arnold contribs-to-Democrats? Or does that not matter to you, given that your purpose isn't honest discussion of the issues but rather Arnold-bashing for its own sake?