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Battle for California: Recall Election Back On
Aired September 24, 2003 - 07:11 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Now to that recall election in California. It will happen. It will take place in two weeks from yesterday. The unanimous ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals put that race back on track officially.
Back to L.A. and Bob Franken for more on what happened yesterday.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The American Civil Liberties Union is giving up its legal fight. No Supreme Court appeal.
DOROTHY EHRLICH, ACLU DIRECTOR: At this point, it is important that the candidates, the campaigns and the voters know that the election will be held on a date that is certain.
FRANKEN: After all, all 11 appeals court judges decided just 16 hours after their hearing that the election should go forward as scheduled; otherwise, "The state of California and its citizens will suffer material hardship."
Now, the state can return to the mad scramble to get this unwieldy election in place two weeks hence. And now, the Republicans can continue to try and untangle their campaign, with conservative Tom McClintock and not so conservative Arnold Schwarzenegger taking votes from each other.
The man who financed the original recall campaign, Congressman Darrell Issa, contends that if the GOP split means the election of Democrat Cruz Bustamante, he's going to reverse himself and oppose the recall.
DARRELL ISSA (R), CALIFORNIA: Both of them can do the math and both of them don't want to be spoilers. One of them has to make the right decision and has to make it in the next two days.
FRANKEN: In fact, the GOP leader of the State Senate, Jim Brulte, is calling on his Senate colleague, McClintock, to pull out, describing him as a third-place candidate. McClintock has been adamant, saying he's in the race to stay. Much depends on how well the candidates do in Wednesday night's debate, the only one Schwarzenegger has agreed to attend.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
And by the way, Bill, Issa has reversed himself on what he said, saying he didn't really mean, really mean that he was going to oppose the recall -- Bill.
HEMMER: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a piece out today, a commentary of sorts in "The Wall Street Journal." What's the message you found in there -- Bob?
FRANKEN: Well, there are a couple of messages. No. 1, he wants to appeal to those who believe that he's really just an empty tank top by showing some intellectual depth. And he also wants to appeal to conservatives.
And in this op-ed piece, where he outlines his economic plan, he manages to drop the names of conservative economists that go from Howard Jarvis (ph) to Arthur Lapler (ph) to the CATO Institute, which is a Libertarian organization. He even talks about Adam Smith, who was the original one who said there should be an absolute lack of government regulations, to say nothing of the more modern Milton Friedman (ph).
So, what he's trying to do is to say that the Republicans, hey, I really am a conservative, just look at the economists that I talk about.
HEMMER: We're on for October 7. Thank you, Bob. Bob Franken in L.A.
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Aired September 24, 2003 - 07:11 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Now to that recall election in California. It will happen. It will take place in two weeks from yesterday. The unanimous ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals put that race back on track officially.
Back to L.A. and Bob Franken for more on what happened yesterday.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The American Civil Liberties Union is giving up its legal fight. No Supreme Court appeal.
DOROTHY EHRLICH, ACLU DIRECTOR: At this point, it is important that the candidates, the campaigns and the voters know that the election will be held on a date that is certain.
FRANKEN: After all, all 11 appeals court judges decided just 16 hours after their hearing that the election should go forward as scheduled; otherwise, "The state of California and its citizens will suffer material hardship."
Now, the state can return to the mad scramble to get this unwieldy election in place two weeks hence. And now, the Republicans can continue to try and untangle their campaign, with conservative Tom McClintock and not so conservative Arnold Schwarzenegger taking votes from each other.
The man who financed the original recall campaign, Congressman Darrell Issa, contends that if the GOP split means the election of Democrat Cruz Bustamante, he's going to reverse himself and oppose the recall.
DARRELL ISSA (R), CALIFORNIA: Both of them can do the math and both of them don't want to be spoilers. One of them has to make the right decision and has to make it in the next two days.
FRANKEN: In fact, the GOP leader of the State Senate, Jim Brulte, is calling on his Senate colleague, McClintock, to pull out, describing him as a third-place candidate. McClintock has been adamant, saying he's in the race to stay. Much depends on how well the candidates do in Wednesday night's debate, the only one Schwarzenegger has agreed to attend.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
And by the way, Bill, Issa has reversed himself on what he said, saying he didn't really mean, really mean that he was going to oppose the recall -- Bill.
HEMMER: Arnold Schwarzenegger has a piece out today, a commentary of sorts in "The Wall Street Journal." What's the message you found in there -- Bob?
FRANKEN: Well, there are a couple of messages. No. 1, he wants to appeal to those who believe that he's really just an empty tank top by showing some intellectual depth. And he also wants to appeal to conservatives.
And in this op-ed piece, where he outlines his economic plan, he manages to drop the names of conservative economists that go from Howard Jarvis (ph) to Arthur Lapler (ph) to the CATO Institute, which is a Libertarian organization. He even talks about Adam Smith, who was the original one who said there should be an absolute lack of government regulations, to say nothing of the more modern Milton Friedman (ph).
So, what he's trying to do is to say that the Republicans, hey, I really am a conservative, just look at the economists that I talk about.
HEMMER: We're on for October 7. Thank you, Bob. Bob Franken in L.A.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
