With bills to sign, Schwarzenegger faces questions about donations

[Khephra]

With bills to sign, Schwarzenegger faces questions about donations

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The month-long bill signing period is upon us, and the question for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger remains: How much and from whom will he accept campaign cash while considering hundreds of bills left on his desk by the Legislature?

Spokesman Rob Stutzman said the governor will not accept any money into his re-election pot (which has a $21,200-per-donor limit) during September. Political adviser Marty Wilson said the governor will accept checks in unlimited amounts in his ballot measure committees, which will fuel his involvement in Nov. 2 election matters.

Indeed, Univision chairman Jerry Perenchio dropped a quarter-million-dollar check into Schwarzenegger's "California Recovery Team" account on Sept. 1, the first day of the bill-signing extravaganza. Predecessor Gray Davis was regularly skewered by the GOP in the 2003 recall and his 2002 re-election campaigns for his refusal to turn off the contribution spigot during bill-signing season.

Not unlike legislators' drill of holding end-of-session fund-raisers amid the crush of business, the bill-signing find-raising practice is seen by campaign finance reformers as especially questionable, because interests with pending measures are more motivated than ever _ and the politicians know it.

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=VOTENOTES-09-06-04

[joefree1]

1. Arnold is a Chevron Oil Stooge

Oil giant Chevron has key role in Schwarzenegger policy after shelling out big
Updated at 22:45 on September 2, 2004, EST.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Lobbyists from oil giant ChevronTexaco played a key role shaping parts of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan to reorganize the state's bureaucracy - including recommendations that would ease restrictions on oil refineries.

The 2,700-page report, assembled largely behind closed doors and released last month, calls for the elimination of more than 12,000 jobs, dozens of departments and potential savings of more than $30 billion over five years.

State records and interviews with the participants show Chevron influenced areas of the report important to the company through its array of lobbyists, lawyers and trade organizations.

Chevron is a major contributor to the governor's campaigns, having donated more than $200,000 to his committees and $500,000 to the California Republican party. Chevron, whose officials acknowledge they lobbied hard to put their ideas in the report, is one of about 20 companies that paid to send the governor and his staff to this week's Republican National Convention in New York City.
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http://www3.cjad.com/content/cp_article.asp?id=/global_feeds/canadianpress/worldnews/w0902117A.htm

[PROUDNWLIBERAL]

6. Lower Drug Costs

Watch Arnold veto allowing Californians the right to buy lower cost drugs from Canada. he just came back to California from the RNC where he took a lot of pharmaceutical company money! What a hypocritical whore, and the people of California will pay through the nose!

[acmavm]

2. Now Californians can honestly say that they have the best government

money can buy. Well, maybe not the best, but it is at least bought and paid for.

Politics in American can be sympolized by the dollar sign. Don't need a word for it anymore. Just $$$$$.

[leesa]

4. It ain't paid for. It was just added to our giant debt.

[acmavm]

9. No, no, no. I mean all the corporate money that went to put Ahnold

in the Guv's mansion. And not the taxpayers take it in the shorts.

Sorry, I should have clarifed what I meant instead of just making a flippant remark and leaving it at that.

[napi21]

3. How do Californians feel about Arnold since he's been governor?

I realize $$ make a difference, but if he has not performed up to what most Californians wanted, no amount of $$ is going to matter!

[leesa]

5. We don't know because we don't get any real news, just glitz.

No one seems to know that he settled the energy company swindling lawsuit for pennies on the dollar throwing away nearly 9 billion dollars. No one hears about his sleazy deals, just showbiz.

[napi21]

7. Get those emails to your press!

Write LTTE's, call your legistature! Good lord! You can't let a flabouyant "actor" get away with schmoozing the whole state!!!!

[The Zanti Regent]

11. The Press Whores never stop blowing him

No matter where you turn, ALL the press whores kiss his ass!

[theoceansnerves]

12. exact same sentiment as the others here

the local media (and statewide i presume) are still absolutely in love with this guy. shit has got to start hitting the fan soon, and i hope that the chevron fiasco and these bills he's about to veto get it going. people need to wake the hell up!

[Dem2theMax]

14. The day after Arnold spoke at the RNC, the San Diego

Union-Tribune was nothing but Arnold. You'd have thought that the world stopped spinning while Arnold was speaking and that no other news had happened anywhere else in the world. :puke:

On edit to fix spelling. Note to self - use spell check you dimwit!

[savistocate]

15. "most Californians"?.. R's great turn-out

was 3.9m of 20 million .
Most responded with contempt to scam of "recall" ..the crooks that bought it and likely with fraudulent signatures.
The smart Silicon Valley, actually Monterey on thru Northward counties rejected the UGLY Depravity. So well illustrated in that
sick RNC speech. History stupid even with high paid aides..he
never and couldn't have heard/watched Humphrey-Nixon speech
or saw Soviet troops in his hometown sts. The L I E S just come so easily.

[shanti]

16. you mean california DU'ers?

what do YOU think??? he disgusts me, i never voted for him, but california has an increasingly younger population (seniors are leaving in droves), most are apolitical and/or star struck. you saw what happened when jesse ventura ran for governor...

[goclark]

8. Butmbut,but Aaarold said he didn't need

any campaign contribution becausse he was so rich?

What's up with the gropper?

[gratuitous]

10. Gee, Gray Davis got clobbered

So, Davis was "regularly skewered" in 2002 and 2003 for taking contributions at this time.

What, oh what, will the "liberal" California media do when Arnold does the exact same thing in 2004???

The smart money is on "clam up."

[loudsue]

13. When does the Gropernator come up for re-election?

Is there a chance California can get rid of this idiot?

How 'bout another recall?
:kick:

[shanti]

17. 3 more LOOOOONG years!

N/T

[loudsue]

18. Ooo. Bummer. n/t

:kick: