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LOS ANGELES -- Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been elected governor, California newspaper editors are scratching their heads over the daily challenge of squeezing his 14-letter last name into a headline. Copy editors, given large headlines to work with during the recall election, are likely to have smaller spaces for daily stories on state government. "There were copy editors across the state who were dreading the prospect of Schwarzenegger becoming governor, not because of politics but because of the fit," said John Armstrong, editor of the Contra Costa Times. Editors at the newspaper briefly discussed using Schwarzenegger's three initials, like...

California race too close to call Tue 7 October, 2003 18:50 BST By Adam Tanner and Gina Keating LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- California's unprecedented recall election has entered its last act as voters jammed polling stations to decide unpopular Gov. Gray Davis's political future and decide whether Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger should begin a political career -- at the top. Lines in many places began forming at 7 a.m. PDT (3 p.m. British time) when booths opened for Californians to first decide whether to oust Democrat Davis, a charisma-free technocrat under fire for mishandling the state's economy, then pick from an...

California Democrat Party state spokesman Bob Mulholland said his party is giving Arnold Schwarzenegger just 100 days before a new recall effort may be launched. Mulholland made his threat on Fox News Tuesday night after polls closed and major press outlets declared Arnold Schwarzenegger the winner. On Tuesday, Gray Davis declined to refute reports that he may back a new recall effort against Schwarzenegger. Already press reports indicate that Democrats have $3 million prepared for a new recall effort. Also, Hollywood billionaire Stephen Bing has promised to finance any Democratic-backed recall effort.

Schwarzenegger Creamed With Egg; Talks to Himself Wed, Sep 03, 2003, 05:09 PM PT LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Arnold Schwarzenegger, action hero-turned political wannabe, was creamed with an egg at a campaign rally as he walked through a crowd Wednesday (Sept 3) at California State University in Long Beach, CA. "You have such a fantastic life, Arnold, you make millions of dollars to do movies and all those kinds of things, why do you want to do this?" Schwarzenegger asked himself. He answered his rhetorical question with, "You know something, because everything that I've gotten my career, my money, my...

<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger, skipping the first debate of California's recall election, was egged Wednesday on a university campus but went ahead with a speech in which he said he is running for governor to give back to a state that is responsible for all his success.</p>

California Democratic Party leaders yesterday blasted the Taco Bell restaurant chain for a sales promotion that counts sales of different menu items as votes in a mock California recall election. Last week the Mexican-style fast food chain launched the campaign, urging Californians to “put their vote where their mouth is.” Taco Bell restaurants statewide are tallying each purchase of a crunchy beef taco as a “vote” for Republican challenger Arnold Schwarzenegger and each purchase of a chicken soft taco as a “vote” for not recalling Gov. Gray Davis. In the first week of the unofficial poll, “votes” for any of...

Cruz Bustamante. The “Bad Lieutenant” Governor can forget the African-American vote, period. He hasn’t recovered from his 2001 slip about “niggers” (made during an address to black trade unionists!), and one can only imagine what gaffes will occur whenever he tries to pronounce “Schwarzenegger.”

By Nathan C. Masters CNSNews.com Correspondent August 13, 2003 (CNSNews.com) - With recent polls showing that two-thirds of likely California voters will vote to oust California Gov. Gray Davis, some political observers are suggesting that Davis may resign to avoid the personal humiliation of being the first recalled governor in California history. But the experts are divided on how the resignation scenario would unfold. In a CNSNews.com article published Friday, Shawn Steel, the co-founder of the Davis recall committee, compared Davis's situation to that of President Richard Nixon in 1974, and he suggested that Davis might resign to preserve his...

State Faces Shortage of Polling Places for Special Election Although there are plenty of candidates for governor, there may not be enough places for Californians to cast their ballots. Statewide, officials say there will be 40 percent fewer places to vote during the recall election than in a normal election. Sacramento County is losing more than 100 of its normal polling places. The county will go from 708 last November to 605 in October. Other counties are worse off. Contra Costa County, for example, will have only about half of the usual number of polling places. Senate President John...

On KFI now, Loretta Sanchez is telling John & Ken that the Dems will have trouble voting on recall day because 'Democrats aren't used to voting in October' and because 'Republicans are so organized'! Someone please find a transcript!

NEVER FORGET ...Los Angeles K-CAL TV News just announced that the reason that California Congresswoman LORETTA SANCHEZ (D) suddenly got on TV this week to "Encourage" Senator DIANE FEINSTEIN (D) to run in California's new Recall Gov. DAVIS (D) Election... ...even though SANCHEZ knows FEINSTEIN won't... ...is so that Anti-U.S. Congresswoman LORETTA SANCHEZ (D) herself can enter the DAVIS Recall Race after FEINSTEIN officially refuses to run. ----------------------------------------------------- ...Like I've been saying for over 2 years... ...t'is a HILLARY/SANCHEZ Pres-VP Ticket in 2004... ...in "The Century of the Woman." ...Gov. LORETTA SANCHEZ (D) is... ...HILLARY's 1st Step forward to the...

California or Bust(amente). Nancy Pelosi gets sly. Killer ants (I mean, ant killers). And more A brief word about this California recall: Needless to say, I'm all for Republican governorships — and for the harassment of Democratic ones — but a recall doesn't sit quite well, does it? No matter what the law allows. Recalls for serious offenses, yes (à la Clinton) — but recalls for being a poor governor, causing popular disgruntlement? We just had an election in California. And if the good people of the Golden State were dumb enough to pass over Bill Simon Jr. for Gray...

Partial transcription from a KRON-TV news report at 11:00 pm Saturday, July 19: DAN KERMAN, KRON reporter (Voice-Over): Democrats have pledged that Davis will be the only Democrat on the ballot. But some think that plays right into the hands of Republicans. VAN JONES, "Police Watch" leftist activist: If the Democrats are going to stay stuck on stupid with Davis, who is a failed governor and hated by everybody, then they're asking the people of California to be in a suicide pact with them... KERMAN (VO): That's why San Francisco activist Van Jones is pushing reformed Republican Arianna Huffington to...

Bill Jones (R) is the Best Candidate to unseat Gray Davis (D-CA) There’s a lot of things I love about California – the gold country, the wine country. It is where Ronald Reagan really started his political stardom – but that was the good ol’ days of politics in California. Yes, there are a lot of things I love about California, but politics isn’t one of them, at least not in the last couple years lately. I hate the liberals and the Democrats who have a strangle-hold on the State, and, there are just a lot of "A"-political or stupid-political...

<p>Organizers of a campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis shut down their paid signature-gathering effort Monday, saying they have enough voter signatures to trigger what would be a historic election to remove a sitting California governor.</p> <p>It took most of the day to get the word out via cellular phone to 1,200 petition circulators, who were told to pack up the card tables and clipboards they had staffed since mid-May at shopping centers from Yuba City to Barstow to the Mexican border.</p>

<p>"We live in a remarkable moment when technology is turning the impossible into the commonplace. Just as computers and the Internet have transformed the way we shop, communicate and work, it is a matter of time before these innovations transform the way we govern ourselves"</p> <p>Who was that techno-enthusiast? California Gov. Gray Davis, writing in a newspaper article he co-authored with New York Gov. George Pataki in 2000. The governors were hopeful that citizens could be empowered to vote electronically one day.</p>

Lockyer, Angelides Won't Join In Recall Frenzy 5:43 p.m. PDT June 17, 2003 SACRAMENTO -- State Treasurer Phil Angelides and Attorney General Bill Lockyer both said Tuesday they wouldn't run for governor if the campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis makes it to the ballot. The two Democrats have both expressed interested in running for the state's top job, and both are sitting on multimillion dollar campaign treasuries. California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres has asked every Democrat to pledge not to put their name on the ballot, should the recall drive be successful. Angelides, Lockyer and state Controller...

<p>He says he'll give up gubernatorial bid if measure isn't on fall ballot.</p> <p>WASHINGTON – Rep. Darrell Issa is staking his political reputation and future on the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis.</p> <p>"If I cannot make this recall a success in a timely fashion so that we have a fall election, then I would not consider being on the ballot – period," Issa told the Register on Wednesday at his congressional office. Issa, who this week is setting up offices in San Diego and Newport Beach to run his 2006 campaign for governor, said he will give up his gubernatorial ambition if he fails to get the recall on the ballot.</p>

www.RecallGrayDavis.com We need to FREEP this Recall Gray Davis Protest which will be held outside the ABC World News Tonight Town Hall Forum. We must have a good sized crowd so that the ABC News network cameras (and other media in attendance) sees how much voter discontent there is with Davis and how strong the Recall Gray Davis grassroots movement is! SHOW UP BEGINNING AT 3:00 - We need people until 6:00 PM or so as we will need to have a large crowd for when the panel ends and Davis, the other panelist and news media exit -...

Opponents of Gray Davis Step Up Recall Efforts Opponents of Governor Gray Davis turned up the heat on their effort to have him recalled, as they began collecting signatures at new drive-through petition centers. They have a considerable distance to go, needing to collect 897,000 valid signatures by September 2. At this point, recall supporters have acquired less than 10 percent what they'll need. Those stopping by to sign the petitions felt strongly that the governor has to go. "I'm a teacher and I've been disappointed in the support we've gotten from the governor and I'm very supportive of...