Schwarzenegger The Governator

[Luke]

: This was news to me. :

Schwarzenegger the Governator
By MICHAEL McKENNA in Los Angeles
08aug03

SETTING the stage for a blockbuster election, Arnold Schwarzenegger has shelved his movie career for a role in politics.

Schwarzenegger played up his wealth and rise from obscurity as a muscled immigrant yesterday after declaring he will run for Governor of California,
The Austrian-born Terminator star will join up to 200 candidates to contest the October election.

After months of speculation, the 56-year-old Republican stunned even his own advisers, who had confirmed in recent days Schwarzenegger's wife Maria Shriver had vetoed his political ambitions.

Ms Shriver, a niece of assassinated Democratic US President John F. Kennedy, had reportedly expressed concerns about the safety and privacy of the couple and their four children if he ran for public office.

But Schwarzenegger, who last week finished promoting his latest film, the moderately successful Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, said his wife of 17 years had relented.

"She was concerned about the children, but then she said 'I will support you no matter what you do. I know you will do a good job. I know you will have a great impact on the people'," he said.

The former Mr Universe body-building champion, who moved to the US in 1968, said he would have to put his movie career aside "for a while or forever".

The recall election was announced last month after Republicans used a legislative loophole to force Democratic Governor Gray Davis back to the polls after being elected to a four year term last November.

Davis has been attacked for overseeing a record $58 billion budget deficit and faces only the second recall election in US history.

Under the rules, a candidate needs only 65 signatures and $5300 to qualify for the race.

The setting of Schwarzenegger's political debut in California, where voters propelled former B-grade actor Ronald Reagan to the governorship and then the US presidency, is entirely appropriate.

This is a state that favours one thing -- celebrity -- over everything else.

Schwarzenegger -- a fiscal conservative and social moderate, who supports abortion rights and "sensible" gun control, announced his candidacy in typical Hollywood style on a TV talk show hosted by friend Jay Leno.

And the actor -- a muscled testament to America's claims as the land of opportunity -- played on his success, which most recently included a $46 million cheque for Terminator 3, to make an emotive claim for governor.

"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests," he said.

"All of the politicians are not any more making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that. "As you know, I don't need to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself. I will make the decisions for the people.

"I've seen first-hand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it.

"This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was."

Pollsters rate Schwarzenegger, ****ography publisher Larry Flynt and several others as possible winners given the high number in the race.

Schwarzenegger said he was aware his candidacy could expose him to personal attacks.

The actor is reported to have used steroids as a bodybuilder, has been accused of being womaniser and his father was called a Nazi in World War II.

Source: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...255E663,00.html Friday, 8 August 2003

[trayne]

I have a wierd feeling hes going to do better than the normal govenor. then again he might blow something up.

[dark_flarelll]

well if u ask me hes a bit of a nut how ever 58 billion dollars is a BIG budeget oversight and he will probaly b better that the last also he has a large fanbase to help him get elected

[trayne]

true. though i still think hes going to blow something up.

[Luke]

<!--QuoteBegin-trayne+Aug 9 2003, 09:38 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (trayne @ Aug 9 2003, 09:38 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> true. though i still think hes going to blow something up. [/b][/quote]
Hes not some psycho : thats going to blow everything to kingdom kum. :innocent:

[trayne]

he&#39;s just not all there. lol.

[ITH]

wht t f**k is bush problem why is he bieng an a**hole serious look at him he is just a ****en nerd tht trying to kill all iraqies

[Screwloose]

It will just be the same for him as acting is, he will still be reading from a script

He will just be a well know figure head for the puppet masters pulling his strings

[trayne]

bush doesnt know what he&#39;s doing. if he knew anything he&#39;d step down and let a real republican run the US.

[ITH]

if i see him i would shoot his ass down :

[trayne]

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