why did america elect  arnold shewer as govenor of cali?
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He was going to kick the aassss of eveyone who did not vote for him.hear mmeee nnnooowww and listen to mmeee llaaatttuuurr girlymon.
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and Republican politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California.
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Actually, the suggestion that the Constitution be ammended to allow foreign born persons to be elected President seems to have come out of Mr Schwartzeneger's supporters. The idea was that there are people being held in Guantanamo who have the right to RUN, so why shouldn't Arnold be able to  also? I think the time window for this idea has closed, simply because the Governor's personal popularity has sunk since assuming power.
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None... this is his bio from the mayor's page\n\nAntonio R. Villaraigosa is the 41st mayor of Los Angeles.\n\nHe was elected on May 17, 2005 and sworn in to office on July 1, 2005.\n\nVillaraigosa is known for his exceptional skill at building broad bi-partisan coalitions and is considered one of the leading progressive voices in the country. His mayoral platform emphasizes finding solutions to the major issues facing Los Angeles including education, transportation, public safety, economic development and ethics.\n\nBorn Antonio Villar on January 23, 1953, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, he is the oldest of four children raised by a single mother, Natalia Delgado. Villaraigosa graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School and attended UCLA, where he received a B.A. degree in history. He is a graduate of the People’s College of Law.\n\nAt the age of 15, Villaraigosa began his lifelong involvement with the labor movement as a volunteer with the farm workers movement, later he served as a field representative/organizer with the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). He also is a past President of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Federation of Government Employees.\n\nIn 1994, Villaraigosa was elected to the California State Assembly; four years later, his colleagues elected him the first Assembly Speaker from Los Angeles in 25 years. While Speaker, Villaraigosa oversaw passage of landmark state legislation including the modernization of public schools, the toughest assault weapons ban in the country, the largest urban neighborhoods parks initiative in\nAmerica, and the “Healthy Families” program that provides healthcare for over a half a million California children.\n\nHe ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 2001 and narrowly lost the election. He then was appointed a distinguished fellow at UCLA and USC, where he helped write “After Sprawl” a policy blueprint for addressing the issues facing many urban centers.\n\nIn 2003, he won the 14th District Los Angeles City Council Seat. During his tenure on the City Council, he championed many of the issues he is addressing today as Mayor and is widely credited with resolving the MTA transit strike, creating the largest passive park on the Eastside and Los Angeles, and protecting funding for the Arts.\n\nHe is married to the former Corina Raigosa, an educator (Villaraigosa is a combination of the surnames) and is the father of four children.
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He is an American isn't he?Do you care that Arnold is the Guvernator?
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Arnold "The Govenator" Schwarzenegger\n\n\n>Arnold may not have been born an American, but there is already a movement underway to amend the constitution.
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Anybody but someone picked by Mexico's President to be Governor of California.. Bastamante was a hand picked choice of President Vincente fox but he did not make it the last time.... Once President Fox gets his man in, California is gone.
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Ted Kennedy probably runs the New England States more so than California. Schwarzenegger? Run California? Like elected officials would let that happen. The bureaucracy is so overwhelmingly on a power trip that nobody has power except for corporations and special interest lobbyists.
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Because people didn't vote for him!\n\nGet over it!\n\nIt's just a TV show!
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Going to go to school? A Republican I know wanted to defraud the State of California out of non-resident tuition at U.C.Berkeley, so he contacted a friend in CA and arraigned to start receiving mail there a year ahead of time. Then made a trip out and got a library card and driver's license.\n\nWorked for him. Works for the "Governor" now.
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Arnold Schwarzeneggar. :) He has nothing to hide and doesn't play stupid political games. He's the only politician that I have any real respect for. Unfortunately he wasn't born in America so he can't be president.
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Califorina have been in the Republican Party back pockets for years. So beating up the poor and middle class is second nature to them. So why are you so suprise about how badly Republican thinking people are treating the people that have been fooled into voting them into position of power....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1952\n\nnot much, it was a landslide\n\nTo placate the party's conservative wing, Eisenhower chose as his running mate Senator Richard Nixon of California, best known for his pursuit of Alger Hiss.
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state politics are decided by state constitutions.  The states can put whatever requirements they want on their Governor.  The Federal constitution, however, states that foreign born folks cannot be president.\n\nNo, Arnold cannot be VP.  To take that seat, he MUST be eligible for the presidency.  (There was a question a few years ago about Bill Clinton using the VPs office as a backdoor to a third term, but it was impossible)
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If Arnold can serve as Governor, I suppose Al Franken can serve as Senator. He is very clear in his stance. I'm sure there will be quite a debate should he actually choose to run!
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Because California likes to be the experimental Utopia of the United States. And it does seem to be two separate groups agitating for both. \n\nI think California in the 70's and 80's used to have a lot of conservatives who leaned libertarian. Now a lot of them have moved elsewhere (Colorado has more than 1 million people living here who were born in Caliornia) or have been overtaken by those liberals who boreder on socialism.
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Another war for independance.\n\n\n Dont' think it couldn't happen - the ELECTED officials in southern cali are plotting as we speak how to BREAK THE LAW FURTHER from anything up to and including ARMED REVOLT if Congress doesn't give them everything they want hands down.