Few Details from Schwarzenegger

[kskiska]

California Voters Waiting for Candidate's Platform

Wednesday, August 13, 2003; Page A01

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12 -- Someday, maybe soon, the new prince of California politics surely will come out to talk about issues -- right?

Alas, not today. "There are no scheduled public events," his campaign e-mailed to the horde of reporters here trailing his every move, "and no media interviews will be granted."

And so California waits, with so many questions.

It has been nearly a week since actor Arnold Schwarzenegger jolted the Golden State by declaring that he is running for governor in the Oct. 7 recall election captivating the nation, but in some ways, he is still a candidate in hiding.

In a few brief public appearances and one round of five-minute chats on the morning shows of national television networks, he has invoked his most famous movie lines and told voters only that he is a strong leader determined to repair California's economy, improve public schools and curb the influence of special interests in state government. Schwarzenegger, who is running as a Republican, has taken a specific position on one issue: If elected, he said, he would repeal the car taxes Gov. Gray Davis (D) tripled this year -- a step that inflamed the movement to throw Davis out of office.

Schwarzenegger has given one interview to a newspaper -- from his native Austria. "I would describe myself as a moderate conservative with the strongest social conscience," he told the Kronen Zeitung. He also said that he has no plans to move his family to Sacramento if elected and that he is forsaking movie deals worth $60 million in order to make his first run for public office.

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[Pert_UK]

1. Vote for me - I'm not going to tell you what I'll do if I win.....

"I'm better than him....but I'm not going to tell you how or why or what I will do differently."

Sensible policies for a happier California.

Anyone who votes for him on this platform should not be allowed to vote again until they've been educated to at least High School Level.

P.

[Rose Siding]

2. Is anyone versed on this car tax?

I heard that when the fees were first lowered, there was a provision in the legislation that automatically triggered a hike when economic circumstance reached a certain level of emergency. If so, why is even the Post pinning this on Davis?

[dArKeR]

3. We got the biggest detail anyone should need. He lied his first interview!

When asked if he was going to release his tax records, Arnie's ear piece suddenly went dead and Arnie could not respond to the question.

1. He obviously lied when he did hear the question. (First response to lie; GOP to the bone.)
2. He obviously is NOT able to make decisions on his own without handlers force feeding him.

Impossible he will help California's situation. California's problems have been made by;
A. Bush unable to manage the White House and our country.
B. Bush, Cheney, Lay, Enron; conspiracy and fraud to destablized and bankrupt the CA economy through a false energy shortage.


I wish I was a National Columnist!

Terminator 3 toon at this link.
http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

[PATRICK]

4. Good God, a Berchtegarten strategy!

Well, he only has to hide and obscure for a couple of months. Smoke him out by creating bigger star news. Get him to answer questions about policy. This is not quiet stagnation but a government in crisis and under attack(from Arnold's patrons curiously enough). Smoke him out, though usually only failing polls will do that.

[samsingh]

5. Schwarzeng. is enabling shrub's corruption

i don't think Schwar. is a bad man however he is enabling evil (like his father did with the nazis). Maybe someone can draw this parallel for him.

[FredScuttle]

6. All we need to know...

is how he handled his announcement to run. I read the TIME article on Ah-nuld and it appears that he explicitly told all of his closest advisers that he would bow out....not hint, not vaguely reference, not indicate. He told them plainly and clearly that he would bow out and announce this on the Tonight Show. Then what does he do? He goes out, hugs Jay Leno, and drops his bombshell, leaving all of his advisers (and friends like Riordan) dumbfounded and completely unprepared.

I'm convinced he's a massive egotist and an addict to the spotlight (I guess one doesn't become a champion bodybuilder, mega-successful actor, producer, and multi-millionaire without some degree of hubris). I guess that works great when you're trying to promote a movie, but this sort of rash decision-making to satsify your out-of-control ego while leaving those closest to you out in the lurch bodes very badly for his ability to govern.

One wonders if he even told his wife that he was going to pull this switcheroo.

[rocktivity]

7. Do CA voters REALLY think they'd be better off with Arnold?

If Davis has been doing such an awful job, why would they want to replace him with someone who's never done the job before? Even worse, to do these voters think this recall was enacted in order to help THEM???

rocknation

[FredScuttle]

9. Not "all" CA voters, rocknation

certainly not this one who thought his vote for Davis last November was legitimate. This recall is an end-around by the GOP thugs in CA to subvert the electoral process and elect one of their minions by plurality, rather than majority. And, technically, only 1.3 million CA voters signed up for this recall, as opposed to the 3.5 million or so who voted for Davis last November. I can't believe that there are 1.3 million idiots who would sign a petition for a recall less than four months after an election, but then again, there's very little that surprises me anymore in politics.

on edit - corrected Davis' vote total from 2002

[monobrau]

8. Ask Pete Wilson

It's looking like Arnold is going to be nothing but a proxy for Pete Wilson and the knuckle-dragging wing of the GOP. This is a pathetic sham being sold as an "outsider" candidacy, because that's the only way these creeps can steal the governorship in a state where EVERY elected office went to democrats this past election.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

10. BINGO!!!!!!!

Why is it that Pete Wilson is running his campaign! If Arnie wanted to be a TRUE MODERATE and help ALL of California then he should not have run as a Repug and should not have chosen Xenophobe and Bigot Pete Wilson!

[Pale_Rider]

11. Ah-nold and the deregulation crises in California ...

Heard tell that Ah-nold met with Ken Lay in a private meeting in May 2001 to discuss Lay's plan for preserving energy deregulation in California. Also apparently present in the meeting was Riordan and 'junk bond king' Milken. Wonder why Schwarzenegger was involved in the meeting? What would Ah-nold know about energy deregulation? Wished the press would ask him.

[Don_G]

12. The Perfect Republican

A has-been actor that can write off 60 Million in "future" earnings to govern one state in a country he can never lead....

What the hell, pass legislation and ship the entire content of Silicon Valley overseas. What does this country need high-tech for anyway---including keeping the manufacture of cruise missles and circuitry within our borders anyway?