Arnold has $120 million goal for re-election campaign

[Judi Lynn]

Arnold has $120 million goal for re-election campaign
Record spending forecast despite new funding rules
Sunday, February 19, 2006

By Mark Z. Barabak and Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times

Trailing in the polls and facing friction inside his own Republican Party, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has set a fund-raising goal of more than $120 million for the November election. The sum rivals the amount raised and spent by the entire field of candidates in the 2002 California governor's race.

If Mr. Schwarzenegger succeeds, the money raised -- along with tens of millions of dollars that Democrats are likely to spend -- would also shatter state and national campaign finance records.

"We think it's doable and necessary," said Rob Stutzman, a strategist for the California Republican Party. He cited the battering the governor took in last year's special election, when opponents spent more than $100 million to defeat four Schwarzenegger-backed ballot initiatives. "There's no reason to think that much can't be spent again, if not more, to try to beat the governor."
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06050/657284.stm

[maseman]

1. All the Governator has is money

He's pissed off the nurses, the teachers, the liberals and some of his own base. The moderates think he is weak. What else does he have besides money? I think he'll go down in flames.

[AndyTiedye]

19. But They Are Going to Put In DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINEZ

McPherson is going to try to do a Blackwell on us.
If those machinez get in, all bets are off.

[Texacrat]

24. The election race is a dead heat right now

Arnold may pull a Bloomberg ...

[saltpoint]

2. I'm with maseman on this one. For a lot of Californians, the thrill is

gone. The novelty's worn off, and they're stuck with a bad actor who's turned out to be a bad governor.

The California State House goes blue in November.

[TomInTib]

3. Stupid effing ForniCalians ( I live there) what did they expect?....

I live in a very liberal district (Marin County) and I still cannot understand how people got in a big enough huff over Davis to allow such a clown (Arnold) to grab a toe-hold in Sacramento.

Well, yes I do.

Read the little blue line below.

[saltpoint]

6. Hi, TomInTib. Liked your post and also the Twain quotation in your

signature line.

While Davis was far from ideal, Arnold is really a wash-out. A miserable excuse for a public servant.

It's not your fault. Keep on keepin' on out there -- you live in a beautiful place -- and do whatever you can to vote a bad governor out.

We'll root for you.

[lapfog_1]

11. Uhh... the "huff" was engineered..

by the repukes... starting back when the repukes privatized the utilities. Combine that with enron (and it's ilk) gaming the market... and you had rolling blackouts and huge electric bill increases.

[TomInTib]

12. I know- I was writing a little a little "off bubble"......

I moved to Marin right before the Ahhnuld elekxsions.

Moved here from (look away,now,) Dallas.

At least it was fire-to-frying pan.

[TomInTib]

4. Stupid effing ForniCalians ( I live there) what did they expect?....

I live in a very liberal district (Marin County) and I still cannot understand how people got in a big enough huff over Davis to allow such a clown to grab a toe-hold in Sacramento.

Well, yes I do.

Read the little blue line below.

[TomInTib]

5. And I am, obviously, too spaz on the trigger.

[maseman]

7. Hey TominTib

At least for Whittington Cheney only pulled the trigger once...or did he?

:D

[high density]

8. Donald Sutherland is a riot.

Love that guy.

[johncoby2]

9. Yea right. And I have a goal of having a 10 inch......

[johncoby2]

10. Unlike Arnold, I have reached my goal......

[Buck Rabbit]

22. I see you have a firm grasp on this.

Actually I hope he does reach his goal too. Spends it all and he still loses.

[joefree1]

13. Hee hee

Looking forward to seeing Aunald getting creamed in the next election. Bring it on.

[jackbourassa]

15. Didn't I read somewhere that Arnold had no money in the bank?

And isn't the election this year?

How on earth will he raise $120 million in 9 months?

I mean no one, including those running for President, has ever done that before.

This is more Arnold huff and puff.

[BrotherBuzz]

16. He's only $410,000 in debt. LOL

Gov.'s Campaign Is in Debt

On eve of election battle, Democratic rivals and union foes have more than $50 million.

By Dan Morain and Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writers
01 Feb 06



SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is entering his reelection campaign $410,000 in debt, while his Democratic rivals and union foes are armed with more than $50 million.

He also continued supplementing his aides' government salaries by paying them additional sums in campaign money, according to campaign reports filed with the state Tuesday.


Schwarzenegger spent $8.2 million of his own money, and tens of millions more of his contributors' money, on his ill-fated special election effort to change state government. Altogether, his campaign cost more than $45 million, depleting his accounts.

Although his opponents spent almost $100 million to defeat the initiatives Schwarzenegger championed in the November vote, many of them emerged with hefty bank accounts.

Controller Steve Westly and Treasurer Phil Angelides, who are competing in the Democratic primary to face the Republican governor next November, started the new year with $24 million and $17.1 million respectively, their reports show.

At $59.8 million, the California Teachers Assn. was the biggest spender in 2005, leading the effort to upend Schwarzenegger's special election initiatives. But the union, which represents more than 330,000 public schoolteachers, nevertheless started the new year with $11.6 million.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-money1feb01,0,846266.story?coll=la-headlines-politics

[Labalanza]

17. But with friends like these...

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1006-08.htm

http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/13/news/buffett/?cnn=yes

...wouldn't that help his competitiveness?

[AndyTiedye]

20. That was in 2003. Buffet Backed Kerry and the Democrats in 2004.

Maybe he realized he'd been had.

[jackbourassa]

21. Arnold won't raise $120,000,000.00

It's impossible. Besides the fact that not even Presidential contenders raise that much money, Arnold looks more and more like a loser. And no one wants to support a loser.

Plus many republicans are angry with him.

Arnold will be lucky if he raises $12,000,000.00.

[frylock]

14. rotfflmao..

:rofl:

[lakeguy]

18. he should save his money...

unless he plans on buying the diebold machines for CA.

[zann725]

23. Wonder if it iany came from CA Workers' Comp Program Cut-Backs?.

OR similarly-related Noe contributions that Ahnalld allegedly "returned."

[EFerrari]

25. That's $12 for each of his failed programs. Idiota. n/t