http://www.bushwatch.com/arnoldwatch.htmBush Lie: GOP Memo Indicates Members Of Bush Election Team Working In California Recall
(SF Chronicle August 6, 2003: link out of date)
While White House and national GOP officials insist they won't get involved in the California recall, a memo obtained by The Chronicle outlines a Republican strategy to oust Gov. Gray Davis and help President Bush before the 2004 presidential election. The memo by California GOP organizer Julie Leitzell, who heads a political action committee called CommonSense Direction,...clearly suggests the imprimatur of the White House.
"Mindy Tucker, former Bush campaign spokesperson
and current Bush campaign operative in California, has the White House's blessing to set the record straight: The person responsible for this recall is sitting behind the governor's desk," the memo says.... says Tucker, California Republican Party spokeswoman Karen Hanretty, and Tracy Schmitt -- formerly with the RNC and now with the Bush- Cheney 2004 campaign -- "will be coordinating seven simultaneous media- friendly events throughout California, (and) we have been asked to call the Bay Area's attention to just how much Gray Davis will cost us if he were left in office." The memo states "the resulting issue-oriented and image-enhancing coverage will benefit the image of the Republican Party, the recall candidates, and will benefit President Bush as we remind the public of who is to blame for the mess in this state."
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Arnold And Trent Lott Share Ties with "Right-Wing Nationalist Movements", Washington Post, 08.14.03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53646-2003Aug13.html
"While media reports in recent days have focused on Schwarzenegger's support for Proposition 187, the controversial 1994 referendum that denied government benefits to illegal aliens, virtually nothing has been said about the multi-millionaire actor's 15-year association with U.S. English, an organization that seeks to establish English as the official language of the United States and also has ties to right-wing nationalist movements that have stirred controversy for other politicians such as Mississippi Republican Sen. Trent Lott...."
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Arnold's Proposition #49 Is Responsible For Helping To Create The California Budget Mess He Claims He Will Fix , Washington Post, 08.14.03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56185-2003Aug13.html
"Last November, as the state's budget problems pushed the deficit over $15 billion, voters reelected Davis and approved four measures creating a trust fund for emergency homeless shelters, low-income seniors and the mentally ill; funding a comprehensive overhaul of education facilities; financing a new wave of "clean water" bonds; and increasing spending on after-school programs.
The after-school measure, Proposition 49, was backed and financed by Schwarzenegger in his maiden voyage in state politics, resulting in a cost to California taxpayers of $550 million a year, with no additional resources to fund it."
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