Ventura County Dems kick Arnold's butt in town hall

[lwin]

Finally, the steroid monkey had to face a real town hall, that wasn't stacked with GOP flunkies!!

County activists grill the governor

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LOS ANGELES -- Two Camarillo Democratic activists peppered Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday with the toughest questions he's faced during a special-election campaign in which the governor has mostly appeared before only hand-selected audiences. During a televised town hall forum at the Skirball Cultural Center, however, Schwarzenegger faced hostile questions from a panel selected by a market research firm hired by KNBC. Among those chosen to ask questions were Larry Miller, a member of the Ventura County Democratic Central Committee; Chris Robson, a member of the state Democratic Party Central Committee representing the 37th Assembly District.

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Miller, an elected trustee of the Ventura County Community College District, engaged in such a fierce exchange with Schwarzenegger that at one point, when the governor sought to complete his response, Miller blurted out, "No, I'm not going to let you finish because you're wrong." Miller had challenged Schwarzenegger about Proposition 74, the initiative he's backing that would extend the probationary period for new teachers from two years to five. Schwarzenegger calls it a reform of "teacher tenure" designed to make it more difficult for teachers to obtain "a job for life."

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Robson challenged Schwarzenegger on Proposition 75, the measure that would require public employee unions to get annual written permission from members before spending any portion of their dues for political purposes. Robson suggested the idea behind Proposition 75 is "based on denying free speech to union members. ... It doesn't make any sense."

The questions -- a generous measure of which came from Ventura County residents -- were mostly hostile to Schwarzenegger..

link (registration required) http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_4212056,00.html

[Erika]

1. Ahnold met with Ken Lay while Davis was still governor

Ahnold is a GOP stooge.

[catzies]

2. Woohoo! Ventura County Grassroots Progressives in the house!!

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