CANDIDATES PLUG AWAY DESPITE POSTPONEMENT.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services As a federal appeals court postponed California's Oct. 7 gubernatorial recall, Gov. Gray Davis and candidates vying to replace him continued campaigning and raising money while the courts decide when to hold the election. ``I'll continue to make my case to the people that a recall is not good for them,'' Davis said after appearing with former President Clinton at a school dedication in Compton. ``We will continue our campaign until there is finality in the courts,'' said Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, the only major Democrat vying to succeed Davis. Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] also promised to continue campaigning. He flew to Lancaster on Monday evening for a $250-a-plate fund-raising dinner at the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. that drew more than 1,300 Republican donors and civic leaders, grossing $350,000. Wearing an open-collared white shirt and a black suit, the Republican repeated his standard campaign themes, saying he would reduce state government spending Government spending or government expenditure consists of government purchases, which can be financed by seigniorage, taxes, or government borrowing. It is considered to be one of the major components of gross domestic product. , repeal the vehicle tax increase, protect funding for eduction e·duce tr.v. e·duced, e·duc·ing, e·duc·es 1. To draw or bring out; elicit. See Synonyms at evoke. 2. To assume or work out from given facts; deduce. and reform California's expensive workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. system. ``We have to turn this around, the madness they have created in the last five years,'' Schwarzenegger said. ``That's why 1.6 million people signed the recall petitions. They are basically saying, We are mad as hell and we won't take it anymore.'' Conservative Republicans in the crowd said they support Schwarzenegger despite his support for abortion rights and other stands. ``Nobody's going to agree 100 percent,'' said Billy Pricer, who runs an anti-gang counseling center and described himself as anti-abortion. ``I don't call it a compromise. There are things I don't agree with with (Republican) Tom McClintock Thomas Miller "Tom" McClintock (born July 10, 1956 in White Plains, New York) is a California State Senator. He ran for Governor of California in the 2003 California recall election of Gray Davis and finished third out of 135 candidates with 13.5% of the overall vote. . You just have to pick the best, and I think Arnold's it.'' Schwarzenegger was repeatedly interrupted by applause and received a standing ovation at the end of his speech. ``We have the most diversified economy. We've got innovative businesses. We've got hard-working people. We've got everything but leadership,'' he said to bursts of applause. ``We have a tremendous vacuum of leadership.'' About 30 Democrats stood outside the fairgrounds waving signs against the recall and for Democrat Bustamante. Earlier on Monday, Davis and Bustamante made a scheduled appearance with Clinton in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . It was the governor's second day with Clinton, the first of many high- profile Democrats campaigning against the recall this week. Davis joined Clinton and Bustamante at the dedication of the William Jefferson Clinton elementary school in Compton and later at a fund-raiser at the home of financier Ron Burkle. The school appearance came two days after state Democrats held an emergency meeting to address their campaign strategy, re-emphasizing their opposition to the recall while endorsing Bustamante to replace Davis should the recall succeed. Also on Monday, in a bid to soften his image with women voters, Schwarzenegger assured talk show host Oprah Winfrey that reports of a salacious sa·la·cious adj. 1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious. 2. Lustful; bawdy. [From Latin sal , party-hard past were more tall tale than truth. The action movie star wants to appeal to women, ``The Oprah Winfrey Show's'' primary audience. Polling has shown that a smaller proportion of female voters have a favorable view of Schwarzenegger, compared with male voters. In the show's season premiere on Monday, Schwarzenegger assured Winfrey, a friend, that old magazine articles reporting everything from marijuana use to group sex reflected his strategy during the 1970s to pump up interest in bodybuilding bodybuilding Developing of the physique through exercise and diet, often for competitive exhibition. Bodybuilding aims at displaying pronounced muscle tone and exaggerated muscle mass and definition for overall aesthetic effect. , the sport that made him famous. ``We really were out there doing crazy things. We were trying to get the attention,'' he said. ``At that time I didn't think I was going to run for governor.'' Before Schwarzenegger took the stage, Winfrey asked his wife - television journalist Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family - whether she had been raised to look the other way if her husband was a womanizer wom·an·ize v. woman·ized, woman·iz·ing, woman·iz·es v.intr. To pursue women lecherously. v.tr. To give female characteristics to; feminize. . ``You know that ticks me off,'' Shriver shrive v. shrove or shrived, shriv·en or shrived, shriv·ing, shrives v.tr. 1. To hear the confession of and give absolution to (a penitent). 2. told Winfrey's Chicago studio. ``I am my own woman, I have not been bred to look the other way. I accept him with all his strengths and all his weaknesses, as he does me.'' |
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