Posted on 11/01/2005 6:37:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will share the special election spotlight this week with a couple of Hollywood counterparts from the opposite side of the political fence.
Warren Beatty, an outspoken critic of the governor, and Rob Reiner are working with groups opposing the governor's agenda to campaign against his initiatives. Both are actors and directors who have long supported Democratic causes.
Beatty has taped a radio ad for the California Nurses Association that calls on voters to turn out next week and turn down Schwarzenegger's "year of reform" initiatives.
Reiner, meanwhile, will staff a phone bank in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening in an effort to convince voters to vote against Proposition 75, an initiative that seeks to reduce the money public employee labor unions can raise for political purposes.
Beatty said he believes the special election has been orchestrated by the governor and his supporters so that most voters will not participate and give Republicans a better chance of passing their agenda.
"To me, it's a misuse of the initiative process," Beatty told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "It's a clear device to circumvent the Legislature and spend a lot of money on oversimplified descriptions of these propositions and hope that the Trojan horses, (which) each of these are, will deceive a bored and not well-enough-informed public into staying home or vote in a way that is against their own best interest."
Beatty's ad, which he wrote, runs 60-seconds and will play on radio stations in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is promoting the union dues measure and three other initiatives on the Nov. 8 ballot: Proposition 74, which lengthens the probationary term for new teachers; Proposition 76, which imposes a cap on state spending and gives the governor authority to make midyear budget cuts; and Proposition 77, which gives authority for drawing legislative and congressional districts to a panel of retired judges.
Reiner is promoting an initiative of his own for 2006, a proposal to provide preschool for every California child.
On Wednesday, he will make telephone calls as part of a get-out-the-vote effort, along with other members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, said Chad Griffin, Reiner's political consultant.
In a campaign appearance last month, Reiner said the union dues measure was designed specifically to stifle political speech of unionized workers.
"The things I care about - education, health care, energy, environment - I need, we all need, to have everybody's voice heard," Reiner said. "If a democracy is to work properly, we must not, we dare not, have any voice suppressed."
Schwarzenegger defended the initiative Tuesday on a San Diego radio program, saying the state's public employee unions have too much influence over the Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats.
"It is wrong for the politicians to go and ask the union bosses whether to make a move or not," the governor said.
Who was it that said "Washington DC is Hollywood for the ugly and Hollywood is Washington DC for those of small intellect," or words to that effect?
Let me see, I don't think there is any contest here! Arnie has my attention over the other two!
My oh my, Dumb and Dumber have teamed up against the Govinator.
Vote Yes, 73,74,75,76,77
dumb and meathead up against Arnie? I'll take Arnie.
Ned Beatty is the old fat guy from Deliverance, Warren Beatty is Shirley MacLaine's brother and Annette Benning's Husband.
We treat murder of babies today like it is nothing. God help those that do that. Wow. That's gotta be the ultimate in sin. I'm having a great deal of trouble accesing my dictionary. I click on Edit..scroll down to dictionary, type in a word and I never get a meaning. It's happened too many times. I must be doing something wrong or the dictionary is not working properly. Anyway, what does coprohagic mean? Corporate hemoraghing or something to that effect? Help.
Main Entry: co·proph·a·gy
Pronunciation: k&-'präf-&-jE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -gies
: the eating of excrement that is normal behavior among many especially young animals but in humans is a symptom of some forms of insanity
—co·proph·a·gist /-&-j&st/ noun —co·proph·a·gous /-&-g&s/ or cop·ro·phag·ic /"käp-r&-'faj-ik/ adjective
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