Ist Benefit Is Set for New Gov. (Arnold)

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-money4nov04,1,6709966.story?coll=la-headlines-california

1st Benefit Is Set for New Gov.

Invitations are mailed for Schwarzenegger fund-raiser two weeks after his swearing-in.

By Dan Morain
Times Staff Writer

November 4, 2003

SACRAMENTO — Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, who as a candidate vowed not to take special interest donations, has scheduled his first fund-raiser as governor aimed at tapping contributions from Capitol insiders, an invitation sent to Sacramento lobbyists Monday shows.

In an event set for Dec. 3, two weeks after his swearing-in as governor, Schwarzenegger is soliciting donations of as much as $21,200, the maximum he can accept under Proposition 34 campaign finance restrictions.

Despite campaigning as a populist who decried politics as usual, Schwarzenegger took out bank loans totaling $4.5 million and raised $11.9 million from donors during the recall campaign to oust Gov. Gray Davis, who ran afoul of voters in part because of his frequent fund-raising.

At least one lobby firm that received the invitation Monday represents a public employees union. Lobbyists are barred from donating directly to state officials. However, their family members and their clients can make donations.

The invitation says donors giving $21,200 are entitled to two tickets for dinner, plus a "reception with photo opportunity" with Schwarzenegger. Donors giving $10,000 are entitled to a single ticket to the reception "with photo opportunity," plus 20 tickets to a general reception. People giving $500 may attend the general reception, but not the private dinner or host reception.

[tom_paine]

1. What a surpise! A Bushevik lied!

You could knock me over with a feather!

:puke:

Ahnold will lie as frequently as Bunnypants*. Who will stop him? Who will call him on it? Even if they do, how will people even hear about it, given that it won't be widely published in Corporate TV Pravda?

Who will stop the Party-Loyal Right-Wing Sub-Media from spraying their toxic cloud of mylarized obfuscation until most people just throw their hands up in confusion?

[realFedUp]

2. lol...

no one can ever put one over on you tom_paine!

[onehandle]

3. He'll lie as often as Rove pulls that particular string.

Dance you nazi-loving, sexual predator!

[zbdent]

4. The dittofreeps have already lined this up as a no-lose

Right-leaning Parade Magazine (in the Sunday Akron Beacon Journal) was asked how Ahnuld would fare.

Without actually saying RINO, they said that Ahnuld would act like a Democrat with the Repub party money.

Therefore setting up - If California pulls through, it's a Repub win. If CA dies, it's the RINO's fault. Spin away.

They must have been seething, because another questioner begged for an answer to a Barbara Streisand question with "all politics aside". The answer, suprisingly, was non-venomous.

[yankeeinlouisiana]

5. Doesn't he have other

issues to attend to??

A fund raiser to pay back his loans?? This is disgusting!! I would have expected more from Maria!!

[realFedUp]

6. Wonder what Maria is up to lately?

Shopping for that $4 million pink diamond or
negotiating a new contract with NBC...