NOTEBOOK: PATAKI LENDING A HAND TO ARNOLD'S CAMPAIGN.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Republican New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Gov. George Pataki's fund-raising team is planning a $1,000-a-person event in Manhattan to benefit Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign to become governor of California The Governor of California is the highest executive authority in the state government, whose responsibilities include making yearly "State of the State" addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced. . The event is tentatively set for Sept. 18. Invitations were sent by Robert Wood Johnson IV
Robert Wood Johnson IV (born April 12, 1947 in New Brunswick, New Jersey), nicknamed Woody Johnson , an heir to the Johnson & Johnson health-care fortune and owner of the New York Jets An adviser to Pataki said the governor expected to head to California in late September to campaign for Schwarzenegger. On Aug. 11, Pataki's fund-raising team staged a private ``prospecting'' luncheon for Schwarzenegger at the posh Four Seasons restaurant in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , where he met with potential major donors. Rudy and the recall Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is likely to endorse Schwarzenegger, a source close to Giuliani said. Giuliani last year endorsed Republican businessman Bill Simon William Edward Simon, Jr. (born June 20, 1951), best known as Bill Simon, is an American businessman and politician. In 2002, Simon campaigned unsuccessfully for Governor of California as a Republican against Democratic incumbent Gray Davis. , who lost to Gov. Gray Davis in the regular gubernatorial election last November. Simon dropped out of the recall election on Saturday, although his name will still appear on the Oct. 7 ballot. No thanks Some Republican leaders on Monday continued to call for the GOP to unite behind one candidate or risk losing the race to replace Davis, after a poll showed Schwarzenegger trailing Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante with the Oct. 7 recall election just six weeks away. ``Without prejudging who the strongest candidate is, what I'm sure of is that four weeks from now, if we still have three active Republican candidates, then Cruz Bustamante will finish first in the recall ballot test,'' Senate Minority Leader Jim Brulte Jim Brulte (born April 13, 1956) is a Republican U.S. politician, who served as a California State Senator representing the 31st district, from 1996 to 2004. He also served as the Senate Republican leader from 2000 to 2004. , R-Rancho Cucamonga, told The Associated Press. But Republican businessman and former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth told reporters in Sacramento on Monday that he had no intention of leaving the race, and state Sen. Tom McClintock recently said the same. |
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