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...Bush is paying a team of lobbyists, including former House majority leader Dick Armey, $50,000 a month to help fortify his state's 21 installations. Presumably, Jeb has George's cell number, but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the chief bullet biter. That's why California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger buttonholed him at January's presidential Inauguration; the Golden State has 62 bases to protect. The Governator has also enlisted former Democratic Congressman and White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, who says, "Having a California Governor who campaigned for this President spells political power...
...environmentalists and drew up a blueprint that would protect not just the pygmy owl but a total of 55 threatened species--while leaving room for housing development in nonsensitive desert regions. "We believed it was better to be at one table rather than have a huge fight," says Bill Arnold, one of the county's biggest Realtors. "Everyone was a winner...
...close, Arnold Schwarzenegger seems not quite real, an animatronic version of himself. His skin is waxworks smooth, his hair untroubled by gray, his accent so often imitated that the real thing sounds like someone goofing on Ahhnold. He speaks informally-there is no hortatory political baloney to him-but we are not really having a conversation. The Governor of California has his lines, and he recites them, just as he did onscreen, with a knowing, ironic clumsiness. All of which tends to undercut his current message, which is quite radical. After a year of trying to negotiate with his state...
...that politicians avoid because they arouse fanatic opposition from entrenched interests and inspire massive gusts of apathy from the public. "This stuff is about as sexy as campaign-finance reform," says Dan Schnur, a Republican political consultant. "Voters aren't ready to go to the ramparts over them, but Arnold realized that these were the things standing in his way if he was really going to change the system. Unlike most politicians, he hasn't spent 20 years working his way up the ladder, waiting for the chance to be Governor. If he's not successful in passing some...
...Asked a prominent California Democrat disgusted by the hold the teachers have on his party but unwilling to say so publicly because "I'd be f______ dead. I disagree with Arnold on a lot of things, but you've got to give him credit for this. Everyone dances around the perimeter of these issues because we're so scared of the unions...