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Please, Drop the Chalupa Tuesday, June 08, 2004 An Iowa man has been arrested for assault with an airborne chalupa, reports the Des Moines Register. "I've never had anything quite like that before," police detective Darren Cornwell told the newspaper. Nancy Harrison was working the drive-through window at a Des Moines Taco Bell (search) Thursday evening when 24-year-old Christopher Lame pulled up and ordered food, Harrison told police. Lame got and paid for his food, but a little while later walked into the restaurant to complain he hadn't gotten what he'd ordered. Harrison asked him if he had his receipt....

WASHINGTON--While the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal rages, yet another controversy is gathering steam, involving top U.S. accounting firms, powerful K Street lobbying firms and international oil companies widely held by institutional and individual investors. Senior congressional staffers, policy analysts and lobbyists are all pointing to mounting evidence that "utter chaos is reigning" in Baghdad over investigations into the Iraq oil-for-food program scandal, especially in the wake of today's raid by Iraqi police and U.S. forces on the home of Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad al-Chalabi. The purpose of the raid was not disclosed, but Chalabi himself later told reporters that...

David Dryer is talking about a poll that was done by ABC over the weekend that shows: AS - 45% Busta - 29 Mclnt - 11% on the Hugh Hewitt show now.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - California State Federation of Labor AFL-CIO endorses Lt. Gov Cruz Bustamante in case Gov. Gray Davis is recalled.

Bustamante, MEChA and the media Michelle Malkin Now that Democrat Cruz Bustamante is California's gubernatorial recall front-runner, we can look forward to in-depth media investigations of the Latino candidate's long-held ties to the racial separatist group MEChA, right? Ha. While Katie Couric complains about GOP candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger being "the son of a Nazi party member" and international media outlets assail Schwarzenegger adviser Pete Wilson as "anti-immigrant" and "racially divisive," the liberal press has been stone-cold silent on Bustamante's connection to one of the nation's most virulently racist organizations. As a student at Fresno State University in the 1970s, Bustamante...

Malkin Bares Bustamante's Ties to Racist Group" Columnist Michelle Malkin exposes Cruz Bustamante's link to a militant separatist group. Why haven't the media elites addressed this potentially damaging affiliation? I don't think we even need to ask. This report is by Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax staff and is reprinted by permission. NEWSMAX.COM - The media are again abetting the Democrat who have destroyed California. again abetting the ''While Katie Couric complains about GOP candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger being 'the son of a Nazi party member' and international media outlets assail Schwarzenegger adviser Pete Wilson as 'anti-immigrant' and 'racially divisive,' the...

Please see the following link before casting your vote for Pro-Mexico Bustamante. Busted Bustamante

The entire staff at 1380 KTKZ has been concerned with Cruz Bustamante's seemingly 'double speak' when it comes to English and Spanish public statements.

<p>LOS ANGELES — Coverage of the California recall election among Spanish language media would lead some voters to believe that not only are the Spanish networks speaking a different language, but that they are covering a different governor's race.</p> <p>When actor Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) announced he was running to replace Democratic Gov. Gray Davis (search) in the Oct. 7 recall election, it led virtually every newscast in the country — every newscast in English, that is.</p>

L.A. Times Gives $21,200 to Bustamante Tuesday, August 26, 2003 By Don Hicks copyright 2003 Surprise, Surprise, The notorious extreme left wing newspaper, the “Los Angeles Times,” finds in their new Poll, that Bustamante now has big a lead in the Governors race. Their long claims of objectivism and fairness make it a laughing stock and only adds another chapter and example of it’s hatred of all thing decent and fair. The only thing missing from this soul mate of “Pravda” is “Baghdad Bob” column in their daily. These low life groups of propagandists and scriptwriters who have for years...

Taco Bell® Poll Shows Californians Are Hungry For Schwarzenegger, Bustamante Irvine, Calif., August 26, 2003 -Taco Bell Corp. announces the first installment of its Taco Poll results with former frontrunner Arnold Schwarzenegger leading with 54 percent of votes with his crunchy beef taco. The Grilled Stuft Burrito holds a strong second on the menu with 43 percent of votes for Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante and the remaining 133 candidates; followed by Governor Gray Davis, represented by a chicken soft taco, with three percent. After overwhelming response from consumers to include Cruz in the Company’s in-store gubernatorial Taco Poll and strong...

A key aide to former Congressman Gary Condit is now a top advisor to Democratic recall candidate, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. Richard Ross has worked for a number of prominent Democrats in California. But he first gained national attention during the Condit-Chandra Levy scandal, spinning week after week's worth of damaging revelations in a bid to save the California Democrat's career. On Monday Ross found himself returning to the role he played for Condit for much of 2001 and 2002. But this time the ace damage controller was trying to deflect questions about dubious fundraising practices employed by Bustamante's...

Now that Democrat Cruz Bustamante is California's gubernatorial recall front-runner, we can look forward to in-depth media investigations of the Latino candidate's long-held ties to the racial separatist group MEChA, right? Ha. While Katie Couric complains about GOP candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger being "the son of a Nazi Party member" and international media outlets assail Schwarzenegger adviser Pete Wilson as "anti-immigrant" and "racially divisive," the liberal press has been stone-cold silent on Bustamante's connection to one of the nation's most virulently racist organizations. As a student at Fresno State University in the 1970s, Bustamante was an active member of the Movimiento...

Gray Davis is exempt from fundraising limits because he is not actually a candidate in California's recall election - he is the defendant, so to speak. However, his second-in-command, Cruz Bustamante, is not exempt. He cannot take more than $21,200 from any single donor. No problem for Cruz, though. He's going to be accepting big money, special interest donations in large chunks anyway, to the tune of about $4M of his $12M fundraising goal. How can he do that? He can just accept donations into his 2002 reelection coffer, and spread the money out amongst the people who donated (even...