Reply #19: Not just Zell Miller- California, Mississippi and expecting more

[Tinoire]

Miller's not alone folks... He's got plenty of company.

Lockyer: I voted for Schwarzenegger

BERKELEY -- Democratic Attorney General Bill Lockyer said Saturday that he voted against the recall of Gov. Gray Davis but crossed party lines on the question of who should replace the incumbent, choosing Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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He represented for me what he did for others: hope, change, reform, opportunity, upbeat problem-solving," Lockyer said of the movie star and governor-elect, his surprise confession sending a jolt through a room of about 150 political consultants, academics and journalists gathered at the University of California, Berkeley, for a post-election analysis.

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While consistent in his opposition to the recall, Lockyer had taken a swipe at Davis weeks before election day, warning that if the governor ran a campaign of "puke politics" he would consider supporting one of his challengers.

"That sanctimonious posturizing is all well and good, but it was not helpful" to keeping Davis in office, snapped the outgoing governor's strategist, Garry South, during his own remarks Saturday.

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http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/recall/story/7629545p-8570117c.html

and just to show you how slick these people are, here's that reptile in action the day before he voted for Schwarznegger. After you read this check out Lockyer's comment about investigating Schwarznegger.

Attorney General wants Schwarzenegger investigated

October 6, 2003
San Jose / Silicon Valley Business Journal
Timothy Roberts

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Sunday in San Jose called on Arnold Schwarzenegger to volunteer to be investigated over the accusations that he harassed 15 women over the last 20 years.

The attorney general, a Democrat, was accompanying a campaign bus tour by Gov. Gray Davis, who is the target of Tuesday's recall election.

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http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/09/29/daily58.html?jst=b_ln_hl

"Jolting Democrat News: Bill Lockyer Voted for Schwarzenegger"

The Democrats may still be in shock from learning on Saturday that their state's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, bolted his party and voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor. Dan Walters, dean of Sacramento political writers, tells the story in his column below, abridged from the Sacramento Bee website.


BERKELEY -- Dozens of political junkies--campaign consultants, pollsters, journalists, academicians and so forth--gathered at the University of California on Saturday for what they expected to be a lively and detailed postmortem on the historic and often bizarre election that dumped Gray Davis from the governorship and selected movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger as his successor. Their expectations were more than met as operatives for the competing factions on the recall and the major candidates to replace Davis--plus a panel of lawyers, reflecting the litigious nature of the event--dissected the eight-month-long, ever-twisting path to the Oct. 7 election.

But, as if to prove that this most unusual campaign still has surprises to offer, what left attendees buzzing afterward was not what the campaign strategists had to say, but Democratic Attorney General Bill Lockyer's startling declaration, during a luncheon speech, that he had voted for Republican Schwarzenegger himself after looking at the "crappy list" of alternatives, including Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. ((Ok, now I'm NO fan of Bustamante but damn, I'd vote Green before EVER voting Republican if I hated all the Dems!))

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Later, Lockyer said that the late-blooming allegations that Schwarzenegger had harassed women during his acting career did not alter his decision, characterizing the allegations as undoubtedly true--Schwarzenegger himself partially acknowledged that--and "frat boy behavior." "I gave him the benefit of the doubt," Lockyer told reporters.

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http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=4780&catcode=33

And of course, let's not forget Mississippi

Democrats endorse Barbour

Democrats endorse Barbour: Republican Haley Barbour on Wednesday released a list of 42 Democrats he says are supporting him over Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove in the Nov. 4 general election.

Among them are former Lt. Gov. Brad Dye and former Supreme Court Justices Lenore Prather and Jim Roberts.

Roberts lost to Musgrove in the 1999 Democratic primary for governor and to state Sen. Barbara Blackmon in this year's Democratic primary for lieutenant governor.

About 30 of the Democrats backing Barbour stood behind him during a news conference at the state Capitol.

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"Haley Barbour is the most partisan Mississippi Republican of his generation, and has built a career out of vicious and unprincipled attacks upon Democratic candidates and the Democratic Party, the current campaign being only the most recent example," Cole said. "Many of us still remember his campaign of calculated insults against the legendary John C. Stennis."

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http://www.clarionledger.com/news/0310/23/m12a.html