Boy, Davis just gets funnier and funnier![:-]
-------------------------- Anger Over Schwarzenegger Quip
Tue September 9, 2003 10:22 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - First Gov. Gray Davis didn' t think Arnold Schwarzenegger was saying enough about California' s issues. Then he didn' t like the " Terminator" mentioning the state at all if he was going to use that funny accent.
And now amid a chorus of criticism that he was being anti-immigrant, Davis says he was only joking.
Davis, fighting to defeat a voter recall on Oct. 7 that could bring the actor to the statehouse, quipped about Schwarzenegger' s Austrian-tinged accent during a campaign appearance on Saturday.
" You shouldn' t be governor unless you can pronounce the name of the state," Davis told a voter on Saturday about the way Schwarzenegger says " Kah-lee-fohr-nyah."
California' s Republican Vice Chairman Mario Rodriguez demanded an apology. " Gray Davis owes every Californian an apology for his insensitive remarks about immigrants who come to this country speaking with an accent," said Rodriguez, a Mexican-American.
" Davis' s ethnic slur is an affront to the millions of immigrants in California. It is preposterous to suggest that non-native English speakers and those with accents are unqualified to lead our state."
Asked for reaction, Davis' s campaign referred to his comments to reporters on Sunday.
" We were just kidding around in a private discussion," Davis said. " But it' s no joke when Arnold Schwarzenegger says the first thing he wants to do is repeal the bill I signed allowing immigrants to drive to work."
Davis signed a bill on Friday allowing illegal immigrants to receive drivers licenses, a measure seen as an effort to boost Davis' s appeal to the state' s Hispanic electorate.
Also on Sunday, Republican Schwarzenegger referred to comments by Davis, who recently complained that people do not always laugh at his jokes.
" He doesn' t like the way I say the word California because I say Cal-ee-fornia rather than Cal-a-fornia," Schwarzenegger said. " But there' s many other words that he doesn' t like, Lost jobs, he doesn' t like that word. He doesn' t like blackout. He doesn' t like energy crisis. And he definitely doesn' t like recall."
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Arnold may not be the " perfect conservative" , and his daddy might have been a Nazi, and he might have partook in a few Hollywood parties, and he may say " California" with an accent, but let me tell you what his opponent Gray Davis is. He is a phony who has decimated the economy of one of the greatest states in the union. He is a liberal jerk who knows no other way than to spend and tax this state into the sorry state that it finds itself in. I don' t blame Gray Davis. I blame the fools that put him where he is. I watched Berkeley during the 60s. I was in San Francisco during the worst of it. I know what the minorities added to this dismal political scene. California has been struggling in this liberal cesspool ever since. The " silent majority" (remember that??) in California needs to punt this SOB like a football. They need to go to the polls instead of sneaking home to their suburbian meccas....AND VOTE!
i heard on tv ( not fox news , local station ) that if elected bustamante wants to raise taxes be $8 billion dollars , is this correct ??? did i hear right ??? if i heard that right ( which i' m questioning ) , how on earth are the poorer people suppose to live ?? and the mom and pop type shops suppose to stay open ??
You heard right whelen. bustamante (davis jr.) wants to raise taxes by $8 billion. He keeps telling people how he' ll raise taxes on the rich and conveniently forgets those same taxes will also be raised for the working people in this state.
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No wonder why the politicians in California are trying so hard to ban guns, and have already banned most ' assault rifles' - they have a genuine fear of a revolution in the state because the continue to trample on the citizens and treat them like expendable dirt.[:@]
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Well, at least Arnold can speak English!
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