Schwarzenegger Voices New Confidence
SAMOA, Calif., June 7 — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger began his re-election campaign on Wednesday by racing through the state, boasting about budgets and bond issues and expressing confidence that he would defeat the newly minted Democratic contender, Phil Angelides, the state treasurer.
Mr. Angelides beat Steve Westly, the state controller and a former eBay executive, on Tuesday with 48 percent of the vote in the primary. In their race, the two spent the better part of their budgets on television advertising to accuse each other of malfeasance and general incompetence.
Mr. Angelides, the more liberal of the two, had the strong support of a majority of unions in the state and its top-ranking Democrats.
Pretty standard stuff, right? Then comes this line....Mr. Schwarzenegger, whose constituents thought so little of him last winter that it seemed anyone with a bank account and a pulse could remove him, ran without serious opposition in the Republican primary and won nearly 90 percent of the vote. He said he was unafraid of the campaign against Mr. Angelides.
"I'm only afraid of not being able to do the things that I want to do," Mr. Schwarzenegger said in an interview in a restaurant here on the remote northern coast. "And I'm not afraid of that, either."
The governor, looking relaxed, well coiffed and a shade somewhere between sun-kissed and Sunkist, added: "I don't look at it as a campaign against somebody. I'm looking at it much more a campaign for the State of California."Ouch! Pretty unprofessional if you ask me. These things should be reported, but why the snarky language? In any case, does he really look that tan, or orange for that matter, in the photo below taken at the event being reported on?
I think I'll write a letter to the Ombudsman, this seems like blatantly biased (i.e., false) reporting to me.
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