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Schwarzenegger Promotes An Extreme Liberal
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, last Wednesday, decided to shake-up his administration after the resounding special elections failure by promoting Susan Kennedy to be his chief of staff.
Kennedy, a lesbian and long-time activist had been serving as State Public Utilities Commissioner. She is not only one of the highest profile gay politicians in California, but a former director of an abortion rights group.
Dave Gilliard, who headed up the campaign to recall former Governor Grey Davis said, “This makes Schwarzenegger a man without a country. The Democrats will never accept him or embrace him and now he’s breaking with his base.”
Steve Manigilo, spokesman for Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuez said, “It leaves many Democrats, as well as Republicans, wondering if he has any core values at all.”
Newly appointed Chief of Staff, Susan Kennedy, told the Californians not to worry. She said, “I believe in this man and where he’s trying to take California. I think a moderate Democrat and a moderate Republican … there is not a lot of light between us.”
That really clears things up, doesn’t it?
It occurred to me once again that people of faith must be vigilant. And that we must vote our values – always.
Noah Webster, father of American public education and the man who gave us our dictionary also gave us his thoughts regarding the people we elect to public office.
“If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes.”
May we learn from our Founding Fathers.
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Gary Randall
President
Faith & Freedom Network
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Check out Stop Susan Kennedy - What a mess! A COMPLETE betrayal!
Date : Mon, Dec 05, 2005 01:15 PM
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A COMPLETE BETRAYAL - A COMPLETE SELL OUT!
Dear Fellow Republicans:
As I said previously, there is only ONE true Republican and that is Senator Tom McClintock. He is a VETERAN and would have done the job. But the GOP was led astray with 'stars' in their eyes.
If you remember in the RECALL Elections, Arnold and Bustamante were tied in the Polls. Many conservatives chose to overlook their differences with Schwarzenegger because of their desire to get rid of Gray Davis - others decided that his positions on the car tax and drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants were enough to overshadow other areas of disagreement, and some were drawn in by the celebrity* star power* that Arnold radiated on the campaign trail.
It is clear NOW that Republican conservative activists are angrier than they have been in over a decade.
Where is the so called slogan "Restore, reform, rebuild?"
ANSWER: Gone with the wind with his latest appt of Susan Kennedy as his Chief of Staff!
The Nov 8 Elections - the Gov thought he could run on his *star power* and he was proven WRONG (big time!) He was no where to be seen except at the last minute while months of propaganda by the Unions went totally UNabated. Obviously, the Campaign managers he had hired and pocketed thousands of dollars were useless.
We were willing to be in the "team" in the Nov 8 Elections - those Props were after all Conservative Reforms.
Now the appointment of Susan Kennedy is a SLAP in the face to all those who volunteered their time in the Nov 8, Elections. A big kiss off to the Republicans.
We are talking about the CHIEF OF STAFF to a Governor! This isn't some random aide - this is the person tasked with making the Administration run.
Further, this appt tells all that he could not bring himself to find a worthy Republican to take that seat or that there were NO qualified Republicans in his opinion.
What an insult to Republicans!
Go to BED with fleas, and you will get up with Fleas all over you.
Susan Kennedy was at the center of Oracle scandal, the energy crisis, and the budget debacles of the Gray Administration. Furthermore, she has been a a very loud Homosexual activist, being one herself. She is also an associate of Jane Hanoi Fonda and a strong advocate for Abortion. She is without doubt a hazardous gas we must watch in this dangerous mine of Goverment.
Expect a Bond coming out soon that will dwarf ALL others in January/February 2006.
The Republican party in CA is now on life support ( as our Gov swings to the Left)
Now all Arnold has to do is grant clemency to Tookie Williams, and he will win not only the Democrats hearts but their minds too.
HERE is a quote from Campaign for CALIFORNIA Families:
Arnold Schwarzenegger has become a liberal Democrat. By placing a leading homosexual, pro-abortion Democrat activist in charge of his entire administration, Arnold has taken a disastrous turn to the left. Conservative voters who supported him are waking up from their dream and stepping into reality – and the reality stinks. This is like George W. Bush appointing Hillary Clinton to be in charge of his administration. It’s utterly ridiculous. Why doesn’t Arnold get honest and just leave the Republican Party?
"This makes Schwarzenegger a man without a country," said GOP strategist Dave Gilliard, who helped run the campaign to recall Davis. "The Democrats will never accept him or embrace him, and now he's breaking with his base. I don't understand it."
Even some leading Democrats appeared puzzled by the appointment."Any move by the governor to embrace Democratic values is good news for the state," said Steve Maviglio, spokesman for Democratic Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuez. "However, it leaves many Democrats, as well as Republicans, wondering if he has any core values at all."
It is time that we ALL take nothing for granted and pay ATTENTION. There is a growing grassroots outrage to a partisan Democrat being placed in charge of a Republican Administration and hope that YOU will also be part of it by signing the Petition below.
Regards
Shirley Jewett
Chair
California Republican Club
(formerly Bush/Cheney2004)
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GOP in Revolt Against Schwarzenegger; Mel Gibson Touted as Challenger
California Republicans are in open revolt against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger over his hiring of a Democratic operative as his new chief of staff.
And one leading state GOP official is touting actor Mel Gibson as a possible Republican primary challenger to Schwarzenegger. (Not so sure about that as Mel Gibson is against the War on Terror)
Officials with the California Republican Party are said to be furious with Schwarzenegger and have demanded a private meeting with the governor to complain about his appointment of Susan P. Kennedy, who was a Cabinet secretary during the administration of Gov. Gray Davis.
Schwarzenegger was elected governor after an extraordinary effort succeeded to recall Davis in 2003. Republicans note that Kennedy was also an abortion-rights activist and Democratic Party executive. Republican operatives said grass-roots volunteers were so disturbed by the appointment that they were threatening to abandon Schwarzenegger during his re-election bid next year, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Times said the movement to draft Mel Gibson to run against Schwarzenegger in the Republican primary next year is due in part because the success of his movie "The Passion of the Christ" could help his chances among religious conservatives.
GOP board member Keith Carlson told the Sacramento Bee: "The spirit of the recall was to oust Davis and his cronies, and now one of his cronies is back."
Schwarzenegger agreed to a face-to-face meeting with Republican Party officials next week. Top GOP officials are particularly worried about Kennedy getting inside information about their statewide election efforts next year, the Times reports.
The board of directors of the California Republican Party demanded the private meeting with Schwarzenegger because it "strongly disagrees" with Kennedy's appointment, according to an e-mail sent out Monday.
It would be the first-ever meeting of the Republican board and Schwarzenegger over a policy dispute.
GOP Assemblyman Ray Haynes said the hiring of Kennedy has convinced him to rescind his support for the governor. "I spent a lot of time trying to explain what the governor has said and defended it," he told the Times. "I gave him the benefit of the doubt and told people he was going to do the right thing. I am not going to do that anymore." ( THANK GOD for Assemblyman Ray Haynes who is not spineless!!)
Other Calif. Republican operatives say the appointment of Kennedy is a purposeful move to the left to win re-election in 2006 and demonstrates that his wife Maria Shriver, a Democrat, is in operational control of her husband's political future.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mel Gibson is stirring passions again with his latest project - a nonfiction TV movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
Gibson's Con Artist Productions is developing ``Flory'' for ABC, based on the true story of a Dutch Jew named Flory Van Beek and her non-Jewish boyfriend who sheltered her from the Nazis, The New York Times and Variety reported in Wednesday editions.
Critics claimed Gibson's blockbuster film ``Passion of the Christ'' was anti-Semitic, a charge Gibson has denied. Gibson's father also is on the record denying that the Holocaust took place.
``For (Gibson) to be associated with this movie is cause for concern,'' Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Melrose Park, Pa., told the Times. ``He needs to come clean that he repudiates Holocaust denial.''
Gibson was in Mexico working on his upcoming film ``Apocalypto'' and couldn't be reached for comment.
Quinn Taylor, ABC's senior vice president in charge of television movies, had a harsh reply for early critics.
``Shut up and wait to see the movie, and then judge,'' Taylor, who oversaw ABC's Emmy-winning miniseries ``Anne Frank,'' told Variety. ``I'm not about to rewrite history. I'm going to explore an amazing love story that we can all learn from and, hopefully, be inspired by.''
As recounted in the 1998 memoir ``Flory: Survival in the Valley of Death,'' Van Beek and her husband survived the sinking of their ship as they tried to flee Holland, then three years of hiding during the German occupation.
The movie has not been formally green-lighted and wouldn't air until at least the 2006-07 season.
rom LA TIMES
Governor Faces Revolt in GOP
As anger rises over the choice of a Democrat as chief of staff, party leaders demand a talk .
By Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO — With segments of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's political base rising in revolt, directors of the California Republican Party have demanded a private meeting with the governor to complain about the hiring of a Democratic operative as his chief of staff.
The request comes as Schwarzenegger faces sustained opposition from moderate and conservative Republicans over the choice of Susan P. Kennedy. Before serving as a state public utility commissioner, Kennedy was Cabinet secretary for Gov. Gray Davis. She also was an abortion-rights activist and former Democratic Party executive.
In appointing Kennedy last week, Schwarzenegger praised her as an effective administrator who could "implement my vision" and work cooperatively with Democrats who control the Legislature.
But Republican operatives said grass-roots volunteers were so disturbed by the appointment that they were threatening to abandon Schwarzenegger during his reelection bid next year. Others said Schwarzenegger was risking a nasty fight that could cause the party to rescind its endorsement of him during February's convention in San Jose.
There is even a movement to draft Mel Gibson, the actor and director, to run against Schwarzenegger in the Republican primary next year — in part because the success of Gibson's movie, "The Passion of the Christ," could help his chances among religious conservatives. Raised in Australia, Gibson was born in New York and is a U.S. citizen, although he has not expressed an interest in elected politics.
"We need to have a good backup," said Mike Spence, president of the California Republican Assembly, a grass-roots organization that is separate from the state party. Spence's group has set up the website, http://www.melgibsonforgovernor.com . "He seems to be more consistent with the Republican message" than the governor is, Spence said.
Gibson could not be reached. His spokesman, who was traveling Tuesday, did not return an e-mail and a call for comment.
The face-to-face meeting between the governor and Republican Party officials is expected to occur next week. That would follow another closed-door meeting that Schwarzenegger has scheduled with GOP lawmakers to allay their concerns.
Former Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, still an admired figure in his party, told The Times that Kennedy "will make a good chief of staff."
But lawmakers from moderate to conservative have questioned Kennedy's appointment. It was criticized by Assembly Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield and Senate Republican leader Dick Ackerman of Irvine — both important allies of the governor. McCarthy called it a "tragic step backward."
High-ranking Republicans are particularly worried about Kennedy getting inside information about their statewide election efforts next year.
A top aide to Schwarzenegger — longtime Republican Mindy Fletcher — represents the governor on the state party's board of directors.
As deputy chief of staff, Fletcher would report to Kennedy. Fletcher attends private meetings where Republican political strategy is discussed. At the closed-door meeting with Schwarzenegger, party directors are expected to ask the governor: What would Kennedy do with political information she receives?
"What does it mean to have a chief of staff from the other party during a year of reelection?" asked state Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim. "This is one of the reasons we wanted to sit down, to express these concerns."
Kennedy could not be reached for comment.
Margita Thompson, the administration's spokeswoman, said Kennedy and all of the governor's employees "will do what is in the governor's best interest and what is in the state's best interest." She said the governor "looks forward to listening" to GOP officials at the meeting.
For many conservative Republicans, Kennedy's appointment has become the final proof that Schwarzenegger does not represent their interests. The outcry has been loud enough that the Republican Party sent out a special e-mail Monday assuring them that the party was dealing with "the political, philosophical and practical concerns" of the appointment.
The 18-member board of directors of the California Republican Party demanded the private meeting because it "strongly disagrees" with Kennedy's appointment, according to the e-mail. It would be the first-ever meeting of the GOP board and Schwarzenegger over a policy dispute.
"The trouble with celebrities or major politicians is they, by necessity, live in an insular world and their information is limited or distorted," said Shawn Steel, the former state GOP chairman and current member of the party's board of directors. "It's clear Schwarzenegger has been given bad advice."
Administration officials cite other high-ranking Democrats who have worked with Schwarzenegger for years. Kennedy has said that she and the Republican governor agree on almost everything — she voted for all four of his initiatives on the Nov. 8 special election ballot, something even some stalwart Republicans didn't do. All of the measures were soundly defeated.
Assemblyman Ray Haynes (R-Riverside) said Kennedy represents "the canary in the coal mine" — the last chance conservatives like himself are giving Schwarzenegger.
"I spent a lot of time trying to explain what the governor has said and defended it. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and told people he was going to do the right thing," Haynes said. "I am not going to do that anymore."
Conservatives have specific complaints about Kennedy. For one, she was executive director of the Democratic Party in 1992 when an operative, Bob Mulholland, publicly accused Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Herschensohn of visiting a Sunset Boulevard strip club. Herschensohn had been running as the traditional-values candidate.
Amid the controversy, Herschensohn lost the Senate race to Democrat Barbara Boxer, and the GOP was outraged at what it called a "smear campaign." Kennedy suspended Mulholland, but he soon returned to the party.
Costa Mesa attorney Michael Houston, a state Republican Party Central Committee member, said the anger at Kennedy's appointment "is not just from the activists. It's across the spectrum."
"The worry is that if a Democrat chief of staff has someone sitting on the Republican executive committee representing her, that could lead to a stealing or theft of strategy that could be detrimental to the Republican Party," Houston said.
Other Republicans said they might stop working for Schwarzenegger's campaign.
"By selecting somebody who has been such a warrior against the values our members have, those people will say, 'Forget it, I am never going down to the headquarters again.' The true believers will focus on county supervisors and school board races," said Michael Der Manouel, Jr., president of the Lincoln Club of Fresno County and a GOP activist.
Jon Fleischman, a Republican activist who operates a website for conservative commentary, http://www.flashreport.org , has fielded more than 1,000 e-mails and dozens of articles from outraged Republicans. He said he "has not seen this kind of strong reaction on an issue since I have been doing the report, and that is 2001."
"It used to be when Arnold would do stuff that would rankle conservatives, the county chairmen would say, 'I am having trouble with my people,' " Fleischman said. "Now the county chairmen are calling up and saying, "Your problem is not with the people, the problem is with me.' The people who are much more savvy politically have just had it."
* Times staff writer Michael Finnegan contributed to this report.
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