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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, a 47-year-old Silicon Valley money manager, wasn't prepared to think much of Arnold Schwarzenegger when she met him at a fund-raiser two years ago. "I thought, 'Austrian meatball,'" she said. "But then five minutes after I met him, I thought, 'You could go all the way to the White House.'" Morgenthaler-Jones signed on with Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign during last year's recall and served on his finance committee. A year after that historic election, she thinks the governor's office doesn't seem large enough for what she calls "Arnold Power." Morgenthaler-Jones last week launched www.AmendforArnold.com, a...

SACRAMENTO — Television ads supporting a constitutional amendment that would allow Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other foreign-born citizens to run for president will begin appearing next week on cable stations across California, a newly formed group based in Silicon Valley announced Friday. The ads feature Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, a mutual fund manager from the Bay Area and major donor to Schwarzenegger's campaign, telling viewers: "You cannot choose the land of your birth. You can choose the land you love." It's the first large-scale effort to generate public support for allowing Schwarzenegger to run for president. The Republican governor, who was born...