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Thanks for posting that. Good to see reader mail getting posted.

I didn’t realize you’d post the entire email, or else I would have tried to be a little more thoughtful and professional with my phrasing, and done some searching for support of the idea that the Democratic party wouldn’t support any party member that runs. I guess I was intending more to suggest an idea for a post, rather than writing a post myself.

I will go ahead and admit that there is no solid evidence that the Democratic party wouldn’t support a candidate. All evidence that points to that is purely circumstantial in that all Democratic officeholders have declined to run, and I would assume that the state party as a whole would stick to that. I could be wrong, of course, especially since Sen. Feinstein, while stating that she will not run, has always been careful to leave an opening: “nothing that I know right now interests me in running…” (emphasis mine).

Thanks, though, it’s always a thrill to see my “name in lights”, so to speak. :)

-JAL

Jason, thanks for the email, I get a few per week that are usually just press releases and it’s easier for me to do the research on it and write the stories. In this case, it would have been unfair to simply try and paraphrase.

I am curious to see if Arnold will run because I think he’s a shoe in if he does, at least gathering the moderates and moderate republicans. Like you mentioned, Camejo only seems to have a chance if Arnold isn’t in this race (even if Dems don’t run out of solidarity, which I don’t see). Another factor is that Arnold threw his weight behind Bill Simon in his original bid against Davis, so that should be worth something.

Uh…maybe i am missing something here. Didn’t Nader have a “socialist agenda” ? He loves to talk about the Chomsky-esque (marxist)mantra of re-distribution of wealth. As long as its not his wealth of 380,000,000$.

How to stop the Republican initiated governor recall.


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When I asked my brother who lives in Southern Cal. what he thought of Arnold running for Governor he replied:

Brentwood has all of the candidates.
Its a hot bed here—that’s also where Gray Davis grew up-People love the idea of shaking the politician thing up.
They are fed up with the stiff guy in a suit giving empty promises—-somebodys gotta pay for the energy debacle.

I think Arnie can win if he can get past all of the critics on his cheating ways he is famous for saying—-i dont cheat on my wife—“only blow jobs” He’s a horny dog with a big appetite—-that is on kidney dialisis once a week for his past steroid use—-ouch

There are some very compelling reasons for both Republicans and Democrats to vote for Arnold in this recall election. He led Proposition 49 last year which expanded afterschool programs for kids (over 1.2M children had the opportunity to take advantage of these programs and stay safe from the streets).