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The latest issue of Time magazine has one of those flavor-of-the-month, warm-and-fuzzy cover stories on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and our own governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The article gushed all over the idea of a maverick-Republican ticket featuring Bloomberg as the presidential candidate with the guv as his faithful Austrian American sidekick. (Of course, all of this was just before Bloomberg announced he could no longer look in the mirror and call himself a Reep.) At the article's conclusion, it even quotes gazillionaire investment expert Warren Buffett saying how he likes the idea of a Bloomberg-Schwarzie presidential ticket. Buffett...

"Amend for Arnold" was the message on the T-shirt handed to me on New Year's Day by a group of Schwarzenegger fans who were making a commercial in favor of the constitutional amendment allowing immigrants who have been citizens for 20 years to run for president. They asked me to say a few words in support, but I demurred. Why? Because the governor was still, for me, more promise than performance. He'd talked the talk about digging California out of bankruptcy but had yet to make good on any of the radical changes that are needed to achieve this -...

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...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Thursday, Sept. 2, 2004 10:10 p.m. EDTSchwarzenegger May Campaign In Ohio Fresh off an effusive endorsement of President Bush in a convention speech, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday he might campaign for the president in the battleground state of Ohio. "It could be a possibility because it's like kind of a second home for me," said Schwarzenegger, who travels annually to Columbus, Ohio, for the Arnold Fitness Weekend. "We don't have a plan right now, we have no plans at all to do anything outside the state, but Ohio could be a place." Aides said the...