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  • Schwarzenegger's election-year olive branches (Susan Kennedy, 'cut'n'run & the Prison Guards/CCPOA)

    06/22/2006 9:08:36 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 333+ views
    Capitol Weekly ^ | 6/22/06 | Shane Goldmacher
    Just six months ago it would have been almost inconceivable that the state's powerful prison-guards lobby would back Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's bid for re-election. The union had just finished spending $2.9 million to torpedo the governor's special-election agenda, lampooned Schwarzenegger's attempts at prison reform and was openly hostile to the state's top prison official, a Schwarzenegger appointee. "It was awful," says Ray McNally, the long-time political adviser of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA). But the union's icy relations with the Republican governor have slowly thawed. That's no accident. This year, Schwarzenegger has launched an ambitious election-year outreach effort....