CA: Governor's new machine for permanent campaign

Sac Bee ^ | 3/7/04 | Bill Bradley

[NormsRevenge]

State Finance Director Donna Arduin, usually ultra-cool and buttoned-down, was practically vibrating with excitement. Her boss, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, was about to take the stage to declare victory on his twin initiatives to refinance the state's debt with $15 billion in bonds and require a balanced state budget.

[NormsRevenge]

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[NormsRevenge]

[Carry_Okie]

...former Arnold campaign manager and Wilson chief of staff Bob White functions as a sort of eminence grise, counseling key staffers in the middle of a tension-filled operation,

My contacts inform me that Bob White has been working with Arnold for nearly a decade.

[calcowgirl]

Schwarzenegger's political success relies on two meta-themes:
his stance as an outsider and as a reformer of the political establishment
and his ability to rise above partisanship...

With enough money to keep the spin alive, he appears to be succeeding
(regardless of evidence to the contrary).

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Go Arnoold!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Now he has got to stomp Burton!