Schwarzenegger demurs at stumping in Ohio for Bush

[RamboLiberal]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/03/MNGGU8J9V51.DTL

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- who jetted back to California on Thursday night without hearing President Bush's speech to the Republican National Convention -- is downplaying for the moment suggestions that he campaign outside the state for the president, saying, "My priority is to fix California."

"I don't want to go out and work for the next two months and work for the president, because I'm working for California,'' Schwarzenegger said at news conference Wednesday after a California delegate lunch at Planet Hollywood.

The governor said he had "no plans right now" for any trips to swing states, such as Ohio, where the Bush campaign has asked him to appear, and suggested such a partisan trip would be unfair to the more than half of California voters who are Democrats.

"It is extremely important for me to stay in California and do my job,'' he said. "We have, as you know, a huge majority of Democrats in the state ... and a lot of them have voted for me.

[livetohike]

He's afraid Ohioans might throw tomatoes at him

for his ignorance.

He thinks he has so many Democrats for him here in CA. He is an idiot.

[MrBenchley]

1. He's passing up a part in "The Mark of Zello"

Ahnuld is trying to get as far away from the NYC stinkbomb as he can...and hoping people in California will forget the odors he added to the cheese....

Wonder how many GOP Congressmen will be hurriedly trying to pretend they're moderates in the next few weeks?

[K8-EEE]

2. This CA Girl Says: FUCK YOU ARNIE!

You pimped for Bush at the GOP hate fest, you're DONE in CA. DONE.

[Jack_Dawson]

23. I think I like you

CA Guy

[spooky3]

3. This is smart and/or admirable on his part. I give him credit.

[seabeyond]

4. wow, at least this is interesting, what a statement

hm. wife must of put her foot down, lol lol lol. and he is right

We have, as you know, a huge majority of Democrats in the state ... and a lot of them have voted for me.

[gratuitous]

5. If it isn't about Ah-nuld

Ah-nuld isn't there. Speechifying to the RNC is one thing. Everyone tells you how great you are and applauds you. Stumping in Ohio for someone else? How does that accrue to the greater glory of Ah-nuld?

[AlCzervik]

6. He's busy with Chevron

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2004/09/02/state1516EDT0076.DTL



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AP Exclusive: Chevron gave big to governor, played key role in reorganization plan

TOM CHORNEAU, Associated Press Writer Thursday, September 2, 2004

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(09-02) 17:27 PDT SACRAMENTO (AP) --

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan to reorganize almost every aspect of state government was influenced significantly by oil and gas giant ChevronTexaco Corp., which managed to shape such key recommendations as the removal of restrictions on oil refineries.

Many corporations and interest groups participated in the governor's reform plan -- known as the California Performance Review -- but state records and interviews with the participants show Chevron enjoyed immense success in influencing the report through its array of lobbyists, attorneys and trade organizations.

And few corporations have spent so much political cash on the governor, either. Since Schwarzenegger's election last October, the San Ramon company has contributed more than $200,000 to his committees and $500,000 to the California Republican Party.

Chevron, whose officials acknowledge they lobbied hard to get 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. On Wednesday, Schwarzenegger attended a closed-door meeting in New York with representatives of those companies, including Chevron. And just three weeks after the governor's office released the 2,700-page reorganization report, the company gave $100,000 to a Schwarzenegger-controlled political fund.

[LibDemAlways]

7. Since when does Ahnold care about

what's fair? The multi-millionaire movie star, who sat out the 2002 governor's race which Gray Davis won fair and square, had no qualms about using his celebrity to oust him in a trumped up repuke-sponsored recall. So far he's done nothing for this state. I wish he'd put his huge ego back to work in the make-believe business where he belongs.

[LisaL]

8. Fix California?

Does he mean he will fix the election in Ca?

[LiberalCat]

12. My exact thought.

Was this a Freudian slip or is he blatantly bragging?

[umtalal]

9. Because here in California we support Kerry and he knows better.

[Ernesto]

10. This is a good thing!

chimp obviously sought arnie's "star power" for help in theeeee battleground state. Right now we in culeeforneeya need to keep our fake "action hero" right here @ home away from the real action. The true fight is going on in the swing states, fortunatly for us, the golden state remains a bush-free zone.

[umtalal]

11. He is known here as the "mental midget"

[yellowcanine]

13. Heh. Aah-hole is out for Aah-hole. He knows Bush might lose and

he doesn't want the loser taint. But he didn't mind accepting a prime time speaking slot on the national stage. I can't wait for the pubbie implosion that is coming when Bush loses. There will be blood all over the floor in the 2008 pubbie primary.

[hippiegranny]

14. don't forget that one of the worst pubbie moments

was Ah-nulds's "girlie-men" thing that played well to the purple heart band-aid crowd, but probably not so well elsewhere. He's tainted. As a woman, I find the "girlie" thing used in such a way a huge insult as it is meant to denote weak, ineffectual and helpless.

[lectrobyte]

17. girlie men: it's tacky, and it damn sure doesn't play well to someone

who's worried about being outsourced, or making ends meet, or what have you, not to mention the folks that are losing their overtime pay etc. I guess I still don't understand why the working class (and I count myself in that number) would support these bozos.

[MrBenchley]

18. Every Republican running for office anywhere

ought to be saddled with that "economic girlyman" line and rode hard.

What a slap in the face of everyone who's ever held an honest job! And I don't consider some guy slathering himself with oil and posing near-naked in front of other men as having an honest job.

[loudsue]

15. "My priority is to fix California." He means EXACTLY what he said.

After the Sec. of State, Shelley, had outlawed Diebold's machines in the State, due to all the evidence presented against these machines and previous gerrymandering, the Groper and Diebold went after Shelley to smear him, THEN they reinstated the Diebold machines (which is supposed to be the call of the Sec. of State), THEN Arnie FROZE THE FEDERAL FUNDS that Shelley was going to use to AUDIT the election!!

No, folks....Arnie's not concerned about getting votes in California: He's concerned with STEALING votes in California... all 55 electoral votes, and numerous State and Federal races as well.

"My priority is to fix California." Follow the BBV threads, and see for yourself.

Believe it!!

:kick::kick:

[quaoar]

16. Arnold did the party loyalty thing

But he sure doesn't want to be tied to closely to a loser.

Pretty soon you'll see Republicans running for Congress avoiding Bush like the plague.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. I get very depressed every time I see SchwanzeWagger

I get depressed about California and the mental state of the average Californian for having elected something as hideous as this person. How can a state that houses such magnificent institutions as Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, and UCLA find total mediocrity so compelling?

[fortyfeetunder]

20. What frightens me more is...

this might encourage the Pugs to railroad a change to the Constitution allowing this imbecile to run for POTUS!!!!

[LibDemAlways]

21. Compare the salary of the average Cal Tech

professor or JPL scientist with Ahnold's haul for even one crappy violent "action" movie. Ahnold has made millions because people are willing to plunk their hard-earned money down to support mindless shit. Ordinary Californians are taken in by the "glamor" that surrounds celebrity just as much as people anywhere. Most of them are clueless as to what the big lug stands for. They just thinks it's "cool" to have a movie star governor.

[hatrack]

24. SchwanzeWagger - ROFLMAO!!!

Thank you - that made my afternoon! :hi:

Besides, isn't San Diego about to suffer through some sort of fiscal implosion? Of course, Ah-nold will probably go and blow up some stuff, or tell them they're girlie-men, and make it all better . . .

[Norquist Nemesis]

22. Probably a deal he made with Maria

to get her to appear at the RNC. i.e. If I appear, you will not stump for him!