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By Robert Scheer Published March 13, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor! Well, why not? I hadn't thought of putting in a plug for the actor's political career until Gov. Gray Davis' top political operative, Garry South, conducted one of the meanest political smear jobs in recent memory. South took the lowest of the low roads when he personally made sure that an article in Premiere magazine got into the hands of a host of reporters as well as potential Republican backers of a possible Schwarzenegger gubernatorial campaign. Not content with attacking Schwarzenegger as a womanizer,...

The following AP story is excerpted from this morning's Washington Post: 'Terminator' in Calif. Recall Race By ERICA WERNER The Associated Press Thursday, August 7, 2003; 7:55 AM LOS ANGELES - With a surprise jump into California's recall race, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger touched off the heaviest tremors in the state's political earthquake to date, saying he wasn't afraid of attacks sure to come from Democrats and conservative Republicans alike. But the aftershock from a day of topsy-turvy developments in the drive to recall Gov. Gray Davis came just hours later, when Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante broke party ranks to...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Garry South, longtime chief political adviser to Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, is signing on with Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., as a senior adviser to his presidential campaign.</p> <p>South, whose aggressive tactics are credited with engineering Davis' hard-fought re-election victory in November, will remain in Los Angeles and focus his efforts on Lieberman's California campaign operation, said Lieberman spokesman Jano Cabrera.</p>

Gary South, Gray Davis' Campaign Manager, has taken on the semblance of Tony Montana in the 1983 movie "Scarface." Angry, resentful, take no prisoners, a political mercenary with no other objective than to turn a rotten apple into Cinderella's chariot come November. "South the Mouth" is upset that the Davis campaign's recent commercial attacks on Simon have met with no response. How dare they, South must be thinking. After all it was South who said: "We've raised more money than God." "We've had a lot of crap poured on our heads in the last two years," South told the Sacramento...

Group formerly supported Davis A nasty spat between Gov. Gray Davis' re-election campaign and a group of former law enforcement supporters erupted yesterday over the California Organization of Police and Sheriffs' endorsement of Republican nominee Bill Simon. A war of words between Davis campaign manager Garry South and COPS officials culminated in a lively late afternoon news conference in San Diego dominated by a most unlikely topic for the straight-laced Simon campaign: horse manure, or a crude synonym to that effect. Monty Holden, executive director of the group, said it's backing Simon because Davis has failed to live up to...