Schwarzenegger Announces Gubernatoria Bid

LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger ended the suspense Wednesday and said he would run in California's recall election, awarding Republicans his marquee value in their campaign to oust Gov. Gray Davis. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein ruled out a run, labeling the election "more and more like a carnival every day."

Schwarzenegger's announcement came as a surprise; advisers had said in recent days that was leaning against running in the Oct. 7 election.

http://www.comcast.net/News/GENERAL//XML/1134_Gubernatorial/51fa98e3-2514-4559-a036-cd23da67df28.html

HAHAHA!!!
:big grin:

well why not.. :)

USA had an actor president for 8 long years (Pres. Reagan) and IMO he did a very good job and probably one of the best presidents america ever had (ending the 70s recession, ending the cold war, Star Wars military budget... etc)

but that was Reagan and this is Schwarzenegger ...hehehe

but i think he can win... will he?

ohh and he can never be president coz he is not naturally born american.. right?

hehehe

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030807/ap_on_el_gu/davis_recall&cid=511&ncid=716

But it was the announcement by Schwarzenegger, a moderate Republican and the star of the "Terminator" movies, that may have come as the biggest surprise.

Schwarzenegger, 56, announced his decision during a taping of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (news - Y! TV)," calling it the toughest he's made since deciding to get a bikini wax in 1978.

"The politicians are fiddling, fumbling and failing," he said. "The man that is failing the people more than anyone is Gray Davis."

Schwarzenegger's advisers had said in recent days that he was leaning against putting his name on the Oct. 7 election ballot because of opposition from his wife, journalist Maria Shriver.

Schwarzenegger told Leno that he's not afraid of Davis allies attacking him as "a womanizer" or "a terrible person." "I know that they're going to throw everything at me," he said.

i think he will win and i think he will do a good job.

You know what else? (http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/07/calif.candidates/index.html)

Gary Coleman is running. Larry Flynt is running too (Hustler magazine publisher if I'm right?) Gallagher (comedian) is running too.

what....the....hell? I'm not HUGE on politics - they're fine but get boring sometimes. Though THIS...this should be intresting. I want all these people in the same room. Should be intresting :P

Schwarzenegger imo though has a good chance. People know who he is and know that he works until he gets results.

I live in California, and Schwarzenegger is getting tons of support from all the people in my town. I think he definitely has a good chance. If he does become governor, it could spell the end of the Terminator franchise and the last time we see Arnie kick some robot ***... :cry:

heh, He will be (if succed) just one puppet more...

Ah-nuld for president!! :grin:

according to ZUBi... heres another puppet..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20030807/ap_on_en_ot/calif__recall_coleman

On Wednesday, Gary Coleman (news), the star of the 1980s sitcom, "Diff'rent Strokes," plunked down $3,500 in Alameda County and declared himself a candidate for governor of California. Current governor Gray Davis is facing a recall election Oct. 7.

http://home.t-online.de/home/520096932703-0001/images/sig/Gary.jpg

http://home.t-online.de/home/520096932703-0001/images/fun/coleman.jpg

question to ZUBi...who is controlling these puppets? :D .. i hope i am the one.. hahaha

this is what he looks like now... can't tell any difference hehe!

http://www.comcast.net/apnews/Multimedia/Photo/DAVIS_RECALL_COLEMAN.jpg

isn't there also a porn star running, who wants to put taxes on breast implants and swap guns with adult movies. i can't remember her name, but i saw her on german tv this evening :rolleyes:

i was actually mean to say: 'puppet on the string' :rolleyes:

Ah-nuld will win, because everyone's asking themselves, "why not?" and they can't come up with a valid reason to not vote for Arnie. Which would honestly be pretty cool, provided he officially changes the name of the position to "The Governator".

That would be the hitch.

Originally posted by blugh
Ah-nuld will win, because everyone's asking themselves, "why not?" and they can't come up with a valid reason to not vote for Arnie. Which would honestly be pretty cool, provided he officially changes the name of the position to "The Governator".

That would be the hitch.


btw.. a direct translation from german to english of "Schwarzenegger " is "black-nigger" :ninja:

Originally posted by blugh
Which would honestly be pretty cool, provided he officially changes the name of the position to "The Governator".

That would be the hitch.
Yeah and when he runs again, his campaign slogan will be "I'LL BE BACK" :evil:

(shakes head in dissapointment) Only in America

well what did you expect? he said he'd be back

yup, so he might be the next gov. of California.. the 6th biggest economy in the world btw... :eek:

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20030811/mdf334756.jpg

http://www.yahoo.com/s/102986


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger disclosed on Sunday that whatever shortcomings he might have as potential governor of California, personal wealth is not among them -- he made more than $50 million in two years.

Schwarzenegger's tax returns, made public at a news conference, showed he earned $31 million in 2000 and paid more than $10 million in state and federal taxes. Income dipped slightly in 2001 to $26.1 million, with $9.3 million paid in taxes.

He also made charitable donations of close to $5 million in those two years, including $1.1 million to Proposition 49, the voter initiative that he successfully backed which increases funding for after school programs.

Asked if the Austrian-born star would be the richest California governor yet, campaign legal counsel Colleen McAndrews said his wealth far surpassed that of past governors Jerry Brown, George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson and of incumbent Gray Davis. "I don't think any of them have had substantial wealth," she said.

Most of Schwarzenegger's income came from the film business.

The "Terminator" actor owns stock in, among other companies, Starbucks, PepsiCo, Coca Cola and Roto Rooter and has millions of dollars in municipal bonds and real estate investments.

In his campaign appearances in the run-up to the unprecedented recall vote on Oct. 7, the Austrian-born Republican has insisted he is so rich that he cannot fall prey to special interests. If elected, his investments would be managed by a trust.


this means also no more ARNIE movies !!!!!!!!!!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Why new thread? Is this one not enough? (http://www.movie-list.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6390)

nope its not enough :P ...

c'mon whats with the forums lately... to many uptight people....lol .. hehehe

maybe its cuz there is so many dumb posts

well anyway back to topic...

will he run for president? ..well he cant anyway unless they make amendments to the constitution... which might happen ....

well i like the idea of a very rich person in politics coz what else does a person what.. more power? ...hehehe

Originally posted by tisoy
c'mon whats with the forums lately... to many uptight people....lol .. hehehe

tell me about it!! :rolleyes:


arnies getting old for action movies now. he could always get back into comedy and/or family after his terms. maybe he'll become a president of the USA! :big grin: i think you have to go to a law school for that. :)

Originally posted by radstar
maybe he'll become a president of the USA! :big grin:

"I'll be back....re elect Arnold or machines will be sent back in time to deal with you before you are born."

damn.. i thought this thread had something to do about me :D haha.a.. oh well.. good for arnie... maybe he will prevent judgment day from the inside :P

hehehe ..see no more arnie movies for now

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20030812/ap_on_en_tv/recall_equal_time_1

LOS ANGELES - Arnold Schwarzenegger (news)'s foray into California's gubernatorial recall election poses a dilemma for broadcasters who might be tempted to show his films during the race: Doing so would allow rival candidates to demand equal time.

For that reason, broadcasters in California will likely not air Schwarzenegger movies such as "Total Recall" and the "Terminator" or a repeat of a "Diff'rent Strokes" episode with Gary Coleman (news) for the next few months.

Cable channels are not covered by the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites)'s equal-time provision, which in the past kept reruns of "Death Valley Days" off the air while Ronald Reagan (news) ran for president. A repeat of a "Saturday Night Live (news - Y! TV)" episode featuring Don Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci, on cable, for instance, would not trigger the provision.

Novello, Schwarzenegger, Coleman and more than 240 other candidates have filed to run in the Oct. 7 election to recall Gov. Gray Davis (news - web sites). The equal-time rule kicks in on Wednesday, when the state is expected to officially certify the list of candidates.

The major networks do not have a Schwarzenegger movie scheduled over the next two months, but local stations can make their own decisions about what to air.

The National Association of Broadcasters sent an alert to its California members reminding them about the consequences of the equal-time provision. The provision would also apply to stations in neighboring states that reach a sizable number of California voters.

"It's doubtful Arnold's movies will be shown on local broadcast stations between now and the election," said Dennis Wharton, an NAB spokesman.

Actually, I think a really rich guy became governor of Massachusetts and wound up doing a great job, he got rid of the state SUV's and replaced them with more efficient cars, gave his salary to the state, good stuff...

Originally posted by Stormwalker
damn.. i thought this thread had something to do about me :D haha.a.. oh well.. good for arnie... maybe he will prevent judgment day from the inside :P
Actually, that's what I thought. :ninja:
<img src="http://www.movie-list.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=55911">

Merged threads. :)

lol.... good one Carl

hahha would ya look at my huge gun!

Why not? The Governor of Minnesota is an Ex-pro wrestler.

I'd rather see him make movies, but if being Governor is what he truely wants, than I support and resepect his decision.

i think he should at least finish of the terminator series now that they have left it soo open for a sequel.

I don't know how much more insulting of his famous lines I can take! They don't work as political slogans!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=511&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030824/ap_on_el_gu/schwarzenegger_s_father_1

VIENNA, Austria - It's just a tiny typewritten line tucked away in an immense archive, but it sheds further light on the Nazi past of Arnold Schwarzenegger's father.

The brief entry in one of millions of documents stored at the Austrian State Archives shows that Gustav Schwarzenegger, the late father of the film star now running for governor of California, was a volunteer member of the Sturmabteilung, or SA — the notorious Nazi storm troopers also known as brownshirts.

The father's Nazi Party membership and combat record in the German army are not new, and his son's dismay about it is well known. The revelations of SA membership that emerged a week ago add another strand to the murky story.

The "SA 1.5.1939" listing shows that the elder Schwarzenegger joined May 1, 1939, the year after Germany annexed Austria and six months after the brownshirts played a crucial role in the bloody Kristallnacht riots.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which in 1990 investigated Gustav Schwarzenegger's wartime past at his son's request, plans to conduct new research before the Oct. 7 California recall election to establish what the father's unit did, said Rabbi Marvin Hier.

Whatever it finds out, "We will give it to Arnold, then to the public," Hier told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from the center's Los Angeles headquarters. "Whatever the record shows, so may it show. Should that record have any bearing on Arnold Schwarzenegger himself? In my opinion, absolutely not."

The Schwarzenegger campaign had no immediate comment.

The Wiesenthal Center didn't find the storm trooper reference in its 1990 investigation because that record was sealed until last year, 30 years after Gustav Schwarzenegger's death in 1972.

The new information was "negative," though SA membership is not considered a crime in itself, as membership in the Gestapo or the paramilitary SS would be, Hier said.

"We know what the SA and the Nazi Party stood for," he said. "Arnold knows this, and he's not proud of the fact that his father was a member of the Nazi Party and that his father was a member of the SA. This is a matter of deep embarrassment, but Arnold cannot be judged by his father."


so now they have to find all the skeletons in the closet..

but this should not be such a big deal, i mean a fathers mistakes or past has nothing to do with his children... right?

my grandfather and my uncle were SS officers, but its not a big deal, they were just doin their job

omg! frickin politics.... :rolleyes:

wuz it Arnie??? nooo... it wuz a completely different person. you bunch of jacka@$$es! :) (talkin to whoever came up w/ that story and whoever's making a big deal out of it)

That means that T4 is coming out in 8 years

hey jake, is that pic in ur avatar real?? :huh:

This is fun...

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/arnoldoui1.html

I wonder if this is plus.... like when Clinton had affair with Monica.... it was some kind of plus in his career.

Well, since he's running for governor, of course some dirt about him had to come out. Interesting article from the 70's (not for kids)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/arnoldinter1.html

And this link will only be good today:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.html

:P

http://www.movie-list.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6451&perpage=15&pagenumber=3

:rolleyes:

MERGE, DELete, CLOSE Thread MOD Strube :)

who gives a **** really?...like this would effect anything on the public opinion about this guy...
HE SMOKES ****!...yeah..but so did you? OW! yeah well thats true...but he is a moviestar he shouldnt do that when he was 25!

**** it :D

Use language like that and you'll get banned again. Use a stress ball and calm down. As for the article, it might not go down very well he smoked pot, no matter what age. However, I'm more surprised someone asked what his size is below...

Merged the threads... sorry didn't see the other one, I was posting in a hurry! :P
And I vote for a permanent ban on sander.bronz or whatever he's calling himself these days, he's been nothing but trouble. (Block his IP or something?)

I do have to admit the board were better and quieter when he was banned. Since he came back, he fits a f word in every place he can in his posts.