Schwarzenegger approval rating tumbles on special election campaign

[Bluebear]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's call for a special election and a new advertising campaign to promote his agenda have failed to arrest his slide in popularity, according to a new statewide poll.

According to the Field Poll released Tuesday, 37 percent of registered California voters approve of Schwarzenegger's job performance, a drop of 18 percentage points since February.

Continuing a trend that began in January, 53 percent of registered California voters said they do not approve of Schwarzenegger's performance. That's a jump of 18 percentage points since February....

"In many ways, this poll was a reaction to the call for the special election," said poll director Mark DiCamillo, who noted that the seven-day survey began June 13, the same night Schwarzenegger announced his decision to call the special election. "I was surprised," he said. "Usually, you would think there would be some positive spin coming out of an event like that, but not here."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/ap_on_re_us/schwarzenegger_poll

[Cleita]

1. Did you hear that he threw a woman out of an event he was

speaking at because she was wearing a nurse's uniform. She didn't do or say anything. I heard it on AAR this morning but haven't found a link yet. But can you imagine this authoritarian bull shit?

[Bluebear]

2. Unreal!!!

What the hell is happening in this country?

[nicknameless]

6. Here's one link to it:

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=76&ItemID=7365

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Schwarzenegger's version of Howard Dean's scream came in December in Long Beach. As the nurses barracked him during a speech, he denounced them as one of the "special interests" and said, "I'm always kicking their butt." This witty response from the breast-grabber got plenty of play, and did the nurses nothing but good. At a January Capitol protest in Sacramento the nurses carried coffins and had a New Orleans jazz group play a death march. During the Super Bowl they flew a small plane over the steroid-swollen Governor's party at his Santa Monica home. When he was in Washington they took out a full-page ad in Roll Call flaying his record. During a Schwarzenegger speech in a Sacramento hotel, nurses held up a banner saying RNs Say Stop the Power Grab.

On February 15, when Schwarzenegger and his platoons of body guards and flunkies trooped into a screening of Be Cool, 300 nurses demonstrated. Kelly DiGiacomo, 46 years old and 5'2", a nurse at a Kaiser hospital near Sacramento, had a ticket. She ensconced herself in the fourth row, wearing her nurse's scrubs.

A bodyguard rushed up, and under the pretext of a possible meeting with the governor, led her to a room with a California Highway Patrol cop at the door and began to grill DiGiacomo. A few days later a CHP investigator called. DiGiacomo asked why she should be considered a threat. The investigator replied, "Well, you were wearing a nurse's uniform." "Oh, sure, the international terrorist uniform," DiGiacomo scoffed. Californians scoffed with her when they saw the news stories. At least Bush and Cheney can claim they're being targeted by hairy men from the dark side of Mecca. Here's Arnold hiding behind his goons from the woman who cares for you when you're in the hospital.

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[Cleita]

8. Good find and thanks. I couldn't find anything on google

or the main news agencies. I guess I didn't use the right words.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. What a jackass

Ugh! I hope they get rid of him!!!

[EVDebs]

3. Arnold is a shill for Globalization, Outsourcing of jobs, capital

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3911118&mesg_id=3911282

Arnie won't tax multinational corporations but he will see to it that the taxes multinationals should be paying...YOU pay instead. He's an elitist in populist's clothing.

[Deja Q]

4. Well, I can hear the Acme(tm) anvil falling...

[Bluebear]

5. An excellent visual aid.

:toast:

[nicknameless]

7. Lots of info about Ahhnold misdeeds

can be found at http://www.arnoldwatch.org

[Cleita]

9. Thanks for the link to that site.

Fantastic. I have to argue with people occasionally about Ahnold. It isn't that they are crazy about him,however, they still think he's a good businessman and a liberal except fiscally. In other words they believe what the Republican propaganda machine wants them too.

[nicknameless]

12. BTW, Ahhnold’s real purpose in having a special election this year

is to circumvent California’s requirement for voting machines paper-trails, which doesn’t go into effect until January, 2006.

The public’s input about problematic voting machines (Diebold, of course, is the worst) is being accepted through June 30th.

Here’s a link to a thread full of helpful info:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x378741



To non-Californians who might be reading this:
Input from election-reform activists from ALL states is welcome! ;)

[Bluebear]

10. Terrific link, nick