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Lockyer, Angelides first Democrats in [CA] governor's race
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| Contributor | Patrick |
| Last Edited | Patrick Mar 16, 2005 04:07pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | State Attorney General Bill Lockyer and state Treasurer Phil Angelides became the first Democrats to say they will challenge Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should the popular Republican governor run for re-election next year.
Angelides became the first official Democratic challenger to the governor, kicking off his campaign Tuesday by charging Schwarzenegger has broken campaign promises and endorsed "Bush-Cheney policies of debt, division and diminished opportunity."
But Lockyer's comments, coming during a lunch with California reporters in Washington, D.C., caused the greater stir.
First, the attorney general said he plans to run for governor next year, adding "it's not a formal announcement, but that's what I'm working on."
Then, he criticized Schwarzenegger's leadership style, saying "I don't like to dwell on this. But it has a little bit of the sort of the odor of Austrian politics. There's a sort of arrogance of power that bothers me. You know, Arnold is still an Austrian citizen." |
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