Posted on 01/18/2006 8:34:29 PM PST by FairOpinion
Matthew Dowd, the chief strategist for President Bush's re-election campaign, has been hired by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to sources close to the administration.
Dowd has been participating in strategy calls, as the governor begins to put together an election campaign, the sources said. The governor also recently hired Steve Schmidt, an adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, as his campaign manager.
Schmidt is working on the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito and will join Schwarzenegger's campaign when they conclude.
(Excerpt) Read more at macon.com ...
If campaigns are run on conservative values, conservative candidates win most of the time, except in regions dominated by large cities which are comprised of welfare state tit suckers. This could well be California's fate, and I would expect this, along with the accompanying 50% decline in real estate values. Although, after the producers leave town, it will be interesting to see what the parasites do next.
There you go again, spreading DISINFORMATION and outright lies, or are you really so uninformed -- you are doing this right after I posted the actual requirements from the website of the CA Secretary of State.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/gov-qual.pdf
Summary of Qualifications and Requirements
for the Office of
Governor
Partisan and Independent Candidates
Statewide Special Election
October 7, 2003
I. QUALIFICATIONS
A candidate shall:
A. Be a U.S. citizen. Cal. Const. Art. V, §21
B. Be a registered voter and otherwise qualified to vote for that office at the time that
nomination papers are issued to the person.
I apologize for saying that you were "spreading disinformation and outright lies".
I found that you weren't doing it deliberately. In the list of requirements I found and posted from the office of Secretary of State, I did find this fine print:
"Article V, section 2 of the California Constitution require five-year residency in California; however, it is the legal opinion of this office that this provision violates the U.S. Constitution."
But in the body of the requirements it doesn't state it, because in the official opinion of the Secretary of State the residency requirement violated the US Constitution, hence it is not listed as a requirement. So at the very least it's a point that can be contested.
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/gov-qual.pdf
The current official position is that there is NO residential requirement.
Summary of Qualifications and Requirements
for the Office of
Governor
Partisan and Independent Candidates
Statewide Special Election
October 7, 2003
I. QUALIFICATIONS
A candidate shall:
A. Be a U.S. citizen. Cal. Const. Art. V, §21
B. Be a registered voter and otherwise qualified to vote for that office at the time that
nomination papers are issued to the person.
Our fine "so-called" conservatives might just be the ones who give us Al Gore governor and future President of the US, by staying home to spite Arnold.
The same types of people who voted against GHW Bush, because he was "not conservative enough" and gave us 8 years of Clinton.
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Obviously, you will never win a Tact Award here at FR.
and considering FR didn't even exist in 1992, and you now seek to pretend to be a psychic and tell the future, Well.. Oh never mind, you never have before.
PS.. it would be nice if the GUb was in the least conservative, regardless your earlier post that you use extolling his few acts in exercising his veto and championing intiatives, some of which were not well thought out or 'marketed', but then you also conveniently seem to ignore his many liberal accomplishments and success in pushing the green and GLBT agendas all the while being touted by you and others as a conservative or as conservative as the state's voters will support..
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But I surely can win the TRUTH award, unlike those spreading propaganda, which only helps to keep CA in Democrat hands, while busily proclaiming how conservative they are, and how supporting Bustamante and Howard Dean is really the "conservative thing to do".
Judge allows extra union dues to fight Calif ballot Props 75, 76, Nov. 4, 2005
THE CA PROPOSITIONS; Democratic and Republican activists discuss the propositions
Dean urges voters to reject measures governor supports [California]
Davis opposes Schwarzenegger's reform initiatives
CA: Feinstein to oppose Schwarzenegger's special election initiatives
John Alden (Marin cnty Dem Party chairman): Vote no on Prop 76 - we need better leaders
Top Democratic leaders at Penmar Park rally to 'swat' governor's special election measures. Key note speaker: Angelides, Dem candidate for governor
Liberal groups (Moveon.org) try to link special election to broader GOP agenda
Open letter from Phil Angelides (opposing Schwarzenegger and the Propositions)
McClintock's recommendations for CA Propositions
Summary of Recommendations on the CA Propositions by various organizations and parties
CA: McClintock stumps for governor's ballot initiatives
Ad watch: McClintock in radio spot supporting Prop. 76 (includes actual text)
Supporters of the CA Propositions 74-77 include CA Club for Growth, Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, Ray Haynes, San Fernando Valley Town Hall Conservatives, Republican Party, and many others. Click on the link for a more comprehensive list.
And you can see from links above who are the ones opposing them: Democrats, Unions, Gray Davis, Howard Dean, Phil Angelides, MoveOn.org, various Dem party chairmen, etc.
And those self-proclaimed conservatives were voting the way Howard Dean, Gray Davis, the unions, Moveon.org recommended, I think Al Gore came to the state also to motivate people to vote AGAINST Arnold's reform propositions.
I think you said you voted against Prop. 76, because supporting the Dem position is the "really, really, conservative thing to do"
Why not uncle Swimmers campaign mgr., he seems to get re-elected every time!
It's too late Ahnold. Once a liberal, always a liberal.
But I surely can win the TRUTH award, unlike those spreading propaganda, which only helps to keep CA in Democrat hands, while busily proclaiming how conservative they are, and how supporting Bustamante and Howard Dean is really the "conservative thing to do".
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.. and you're still a bald faced liar trying to portray your utterances as truths. You deny the facts of what has gone down so far and seek to tell your own "truths" in place of them.
Keep it up, FO, You can twist and spin with the best of them but in the end, you will be the one left wondering what went wrong and even then not be able to see how you are as much a reason as to why the state is in the distress it is in.
btw, what is the difference if the Gub is in the dems hands or the state is, the effect appears to be the same.
The spending hasn't slowed down much at all the last few years but the borrowing sure has increased.. Spin that.
Well, that sure looks official.
I read something right after it was reported that he got the condo in San Francisco that said there was a 2 or 3 year residency requirement (at which point I said "whew". I guess that was wrong.
Thanks for the reference.
BTW, it was a mistake, that I repeated. If it had not been from a source that I found reliable, I would not have remembered or repeated it. It was not an "outright lie".
Thank you for the correction.
This thread is evidence how one takes an announcement about a new campaign manager, who is reported to be another "ex-democrat", who spent the last 4 years trying to give us a "it's not an amnesty" amnesty plan, and turn all intelligent discourse into a bunch of meaningless mush, all in the name of TRUTH... and bashing conservatives at the same time!
It's an art, I tell ya!
turn all intelligent discourse into a bunch of meaningless mush, all in the name of TRUTH... and bashing conservatives at the same time!
It's an art, I tell ya!
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LOL.. and a dying art, at that, thank goodness! alas, no cigar.
All the while up to now, the Gub was pushing anyone related to Bush away and now all of a sudden, embraces them.. what's wrong with that picture?
Like I said, will President Bush campaign for the Gub?
Talk about a Catch-22.
Before that ever happens you have to be able to recognize the truth, especially when calcowgirl and NormsRevenge whap you in the head with it like a wetmop drive-by that wraps the wet mop-head of truth around your whole head and yanks you completely off your danged feet!!!
TOO LATE ! ! !
Huh??? Where'd ya pull THAT rabbit out of???
Great post, calcowgirl!
An important ping for y'all...check out calcowgirl's post #18.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560757/posts?page=18#18
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 5 EXECUTIVE SECTION 1. The supreme executive power of this State is vested in the Governor. The Governor shall see that the law is faithfully executed. CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 5 EXECUTIVE SEC. 2. The Governor shall be elected every fourth year at the same time and places as members of the Assembly and hold office from the Monday after January 1 following the election until a successor qualifies. The Governor shall be an elector who has been a citizen of the United States and a resident of this State for 5 years immediately preceding the Governor's election. The Governor may not hold other public office. No Governor may serve more than 2 terms.
This continuous "reaching out" to a bunch of democrats and "ex-democrats" makes my stomach turn. Will all of these kumbaya moments we are fed, ya almost forget that these socialist thugs are the enemy. I'll be bracing for the next bi-partisan moment of self congratulation--as the taxpayers again get the short end.
>>and a dying art, at that, thank goodness!
I sure hope you're right! Because if this is the way the Party tries to attract support, they got some work to do!
If you want the full NYT editorial, let me know. It's a doozie!
The guy is known as a brilliant pollster--but instead of trying to figure out what YOU want, the emphasis is to feed you what they want you to have (at least that's my impression after reading many articles). As some sat back watching an amnesty plan get pushed on the citizens, asking if Bush was listening as people constantly spoke out against his "guest worker program", who did we have behind the scenes? Yep--that would be the guy.
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