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...sissy is what I'm saying. He's a scaredy-cat." RICHIE ROSS, political strategist for Democratic Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, on why Arnold Schwarzenegger hasn't yet agreed to participate in a debate of recall candidates...
...Everybody had been surprised by [his poor showing], including him," says a G.O.P. strategist. Democrats, meanwhile, appeared to be gaining as they coalesced around what is known as the "no-yes" approach: asking voters to cast a ballot against recalling Governor Gray Davis but in favor of Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante as his successor if Davis is ousted. It seems to be working--at least for Bustamante. In a Los Angeles Times poll released Sunday, bustamante had a 13-point lead over Schwarzenegger among likely voters asked whom they would vote for to replace Davis...
Squat, round and balding, Cruz Bustamante is the first to admit he's no swashbuckling political rock star. As lieutenant governor of California, he has duties that are largely ceremonial and unnoticed. Just before he was reelected last November, a poll showed that only 59% of California voters knew who he was, despite his six years in the state assembly and four years as lieutenant governor. But because of a quirk of electoral politics--and because no other Democrat wanted to take the plunge--Bustamante, 50, became the "just in case" candidate for his party in the current recall election...
...Candidate was one of several dozen vying for that responsibility. Among the others on the ballot: socialite turned populist cable pundit Arianna Huffington, ex--baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, pornographer Larry Flynt and porn star Mary Carey. Representing the et tu, Brute wing of Davis' party is his Lieutenant Governor, Cruz Bustamante...
...that yesterday?s dramatic upheavals in the recall campaign against Gov. Gray Davis were, well, earthshaking. Voters woke up Thursday morning to a completely different race. Arnold Schwarzenegger?s shock-and-awe style announcement on The Tonight Show that he would run was the top headline, but Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante?s decision to jump into the race was just as big. It gave the signal that the Democrats have abandoned Davis, deciding it?s better to cut the Governor loose and run a candidate to replace him than be dragged down with him. Undoubtedly there are more aftershocks...