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California Recall
Aired October 02, 2003 - 10:07 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: To California now, a spokesman for Arnold Schwarzenegger is dismissing a report that could taint the front-runner just five days before the statewide recall election.
Our national correspondent Bob Franken has been covering the race. He has the latest twist on the final spring toward the finish line.
Bob, good morning.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Only the latest twist, but it is a "Los Angeles Times" article appearing this morning, which features interviews with six women, most of them unidentified, who site instances and claims that the date in the 1970s, 1980, 1990, and the year 2000 Schwarzenegger groped them, unwelcomed advances on movie sets and off.
As you said, the spokesman for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sean Walsh (ph), said the candidate himself will not be responding to this, But Sean Walsh said that this was just part of an effort by Democrats to discredit Schwarzenegger in the days leading up to the election.
Schwarzenegger himself has been campaigning as if the polls are correct that and he's already been elected governor.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA: Here's what I will do in the first days, the first hundred days in office. Day one, I would sign an executive order to repeal the Davis administration.
(APPLAUSE)
The increase is especially hard on the low-income people who just want to go to work and take their kids to day care. I can kill the tax with my signature alone, and I will do exactly that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FRANKEN: Notice the word "will," which the governor Gray Davis forces who are trying to avoid the recall say is awfully, quote, "presumptuous." They are out campaigning, the candidate is, with whatever the Democrat dujour is, the national Democrat who's in town, and yesterday, that was General Wesley Clark, the latest Democratic presidential candidate.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) WESLEY CLARK (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm here to support all of you who agree with me that you must vote no on this recall.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GOV. GRAY DAVIS (D), CALIFORNIA: How are we going to vote on the recall?
CROWD: No.
DAVIS: How?
CROWD: No.
DAVIS: Let's get out and make it happen.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FRANKEN: And that is something that is going to be the job that the Democrats and the labor movement are going to be trying very hard, that is to say to somehow encourage a massive turnout that would turnaround the poll results -- Daryn.
KAGAN: And it seems like the Davis campaign is offended by the kind of language that Arnold Schwarzenegger's using, accusing him of already measuring for drapes, so to speak, at the Capital.
FRANKEN: Well, they are going to see if they can avoid giving him the measuring tape. I will point out, by the way, that Schwarzenegger is doing a four-day bus tour around California the next several days.
KAGAN: All right, Bob Franken. Thank you for that.
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Aired October 2, 2003 - 10:07 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: To California now, a spokesman for Arnold Schwarzenegger is dismissing a report that could taint the front-runner just five days before the statewide recall election.
Our national correspondent Bob Franken has been covering the race. He has the latest twist on the final spring toward the finish line.
Bob, good morning.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Only the latest twist, but it is a "Los Angeles Times" article appearing this morning, which features interviews with six women, most of them unidentified, who site instances and claims that the date in the 1970s, 1980, 1990, and the year 2000 Schwarzenegger groped them, unwelcomed advances on movie sets and off.
As you said, the spokesman for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sean Walsh (ph), said the candidate himself will not be responding to this, But Sean Walsh said that this was just part of an effort by Democrats to discredit Schwarzenegger in the days leading up to the election.
Schwarzenegger himself has been campaigning as if the polls are correct that and he's already been elected governor.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA: Here's what I will do in the first days, the first hundred days in office. Day one, I would sign an executive order to repeal the Davis administration.
(APPLAUSE)
The increase is especially hard on the low-income people who just want to go to work and take their kids to day care. I can kill the tax with my signature alone, and I will do exactly that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FRANKEN: Notice the word "will," which the governor Gray Davis forces who are trying to avoid the recall say is awfully, quote, "presumptuous." They are out campaigning, the candidate is, with whatever the Democrat dujour is, the national Democrat who's in town, and yesterday, that was General Wesley Clark, the latest Democratic presidential candidate.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) WESLEY CLARK (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm here to support all of you who agree with me that you must vote no on this recall.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GOV. GRAY DAVIS (D), CALIFORNIA: How are we going to vote on the recall?
CROWD: No.
DAVIS: How?
CROWD: No.
DAVIS: Let's get out and make it happen.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FRANKEN: And that is something that is going to be the job that the Democrats and the labor movement are going to be trying very hard, that is to say to somehow encourage a massive turnout that would turnaround the poll results -- Daryn.
KAGAN: And it seems like the Davis campaign is offended by the kind of language that Arnold Schwarzenegger's using, accusing him of already measuring for drapes, so to speak, at the Capital.
FRANKEN: Well, they are going to see if they can avoid giving him the measuring tape. I will point out, by the way, that Schwarzenegger is doing a four-day bus tour around California the next several days.
KAGAN: All right, Bob Franken. Thank you for that.
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