Schwarzenegger brings Bush strategist to 2006 campaign

[davidinalameda]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/19/BAGTQGPLPB1.DTL

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, steeling for a tough 2006 campaign, has tapped another top White House veteran to join his re-election drive -- hiring Matthew Dowd, a lead architect of the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign to be his chief campaign strategist, sources said Wednesday.

The addition of Dowd, a confidant of top White House aide Karl Rove, Bush's former chief pollster and a former senior adviser to the Republican National Committee, is expected to be announced shortly. The GOP strategist heads ViaNovo, a management and communications firm in Austin, Texas.

Dowd will join the campaign in February, but sources close to the governor said Wednesday that Mike Murphy, the political strategist who headed Schwarzenegger's 2003 recall victory -- and last year's devastating special election defeat on ballot initiatives -- will continue to advise the governor.

"Mike is a brilliant guy ... who has decided to move beyond the day-to-day managing of political campaigns,'' but will play an important role in the governor's 2006 election effort, said a source close to the Republican governor who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

is this an offer of red meat to the cons to make up for his move left

[rocktivity]

1. "Never tell your enemy he is making a mistake." --Napoleon Bonparte

Aligning with Bush is the LAST thing that will win over Cali voters!

:headbang:
rocknation

[FrannyD]

2. I'm glad

Bring the whole team, because we all know they didn't win that election. Their cheating tactics hopefully won't be as easy to accomplish in California.

[Tiggeroshii]

3. We have to keep on fighting here

We need to work as hard as we can to get these machines out of California and promote as much open source code law as possible if we hope to keep the state true to it's electorate.