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Schwarzenegger Talks Like a Winner; Interview With Bryan Quinn
Aired October 02, 2003 - 09:33 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.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Now to California and a shift in strategy. Arnold Schwarzenegger is talking as if he is already governor even though the election isn't until Tuesday. But there's a controversial article now about the front runner this morning in "the Los Angeles Times."
Bob Franken is live in Los Angeles. Bob, I'm sure you've read it, and wondering what the reaction is out there.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, so far, of course, as early in the day as it is, people's reaction is to sort of look at "The Times" and read it a second time. "The L.A. Times" is reporting interviews with six women, most of them identified, who say that in the decades 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and the year 2000 they were in separate incidents groped by Schwarzenegger on the movie set or off the movie set in some circumstances.
Now the Schwarzenegger spokesmen say he will not be available. Spokesman Sean Walsh says that the charges are untrue. Went on to say, "We believe Democrats are using this to try and hurt Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign." Schwarzenegger is beginning a tour of the state, a bus tour where reporters will be involved. So, of course, they will be asking. We do not know if Schwarzenegger will change his mind and comment on the article.
Now Schwarzenegger made a speech yesterday which many are taking as a sign from him that with the polls so much his favor, he believes that he's pretty much already won.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIF GOV. CANDIDATE: We are ready to take action, and we are ready to return California to the people.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FRANKEN: He said that would happen when he took office. Comments that were described by the people in the Gray Davis camp, Davis of course trying to avoid recall, and the spokesman called the Schwarzenegger comments presumptuous. They were out campaigning wit the latest Democrat, national candidate du jour who is Wesley Clark, who was campaigning with Davis in Los Angeles yesterday.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
WESLEY CLARK (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: ... all of you who agree with me that you must vote no on this recall. 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's going to have to be the real strategy for the Democrats and those opposing the recall, a massive and successful get-out-the-vote campaign. Because if the polls are any indications, Davis has a lot of work in the five days remaining -- Heidi.
COLLINS: Bob, just wondering, could this newfound confidence, or some people are calling it, as you say a little presumptuous, could it turn some voters off? Or do you think they're really going to like the way that he's speaking now?
FRANKEN: Probably yes and yes. There's probably a little bit of both in California. And it is so hard to figure how the voters are going to react. And the analysis is that people are just so fed up that sometimes the normal political considerations just don't apply and people are going to watch very closely if that's the case in this recall election.
COLLINS: Bob Franken in Los Angeles, thanks so much.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: It may not have much of an impact on the recall vote, but six candidates including some you know already, appeared yesterday on a game show called "Who Wants to be Governor of California?" There's Gary Coleman.
When it was over, three left standing, including porn star Mary Carey, she's one of them. Another one is Bryan Quinn, a 20-year-old student and a Republican. He joins us live from Sacramento. Nice to see you, Bryan, good morning to you.
BRYAN QUINN (R), CALIF. GOV. CANDIDATE: How you doing, Bill?
HEMMER: I'm doing fine, thanks. How did this show work?
QUINN: Well basically it was a show where they took six candidates that had some unique thing about them. some unique aspect. I was one of them because I'm the youngest candidate on the ballot. And basically they went through, you gave an opening statement, you answered some questions, gave a 10-second sound bite that you thought would make the papers, they judged you on it and then basically who whoever had the points at the end gave a one minute schpiel, if you will. And hopefully people liked mine and vote on mine.
HEMMER: What's you 10 second sound bite, Bryan? QUINN: I spun the wheel and got gay marriage and I said, Hey, I don't want to be the guy that turned my back on them. Turned out pretty good, got some good laughs, and I was able to walk away with the highest score.
HEMMER: Sounds like a politician already. What's in it for the winner?
QUINN: The maximum allowable donation the Game Show Network will make to your campaign which is just over $21,000.
HEMMER: Wow, will that help you?
QUINN: Oh, that helped me a lot. I'm a college student and I have a lot of stuff to do with that money.
HEMMER: Who's your toughest competition?
QUINN: I think it's be depending who votes online. Looking at the demographics it's mostly women and very few women are going to vote for Mary Carey because of her extracurricular activities. But I think Nate Walton is going to be a very tough competitor, he's a very smart guy. But I think hopefully in the end people will see that I'm the one who actually has a platform. I have an economic platform, an education platform and an energy platform. And I think people will realize that I'm the one who has the best shot of actually running this state.
HEMMER: The economy is probably the No. 1 issue in this recall. What's your platform for the economy?
QUINN: My platform has to do what New York did back in the 1970s and declare the state of California insolvent. I think this would work for us and I think it's the only key to California's return to prosperity.
HEMMER: So California says it's bankrupt is what you're saying, right?
QUINN: Yes, it's kind of like a quasi-bankruptcy, exactly.
HEMMER: Listen, who you voting for next Tuesday?
QUINN: I've actually already voted, took a bunch of pictures. I voted for myself, but I am -- if I look at the serious candidates, I do root for Arnold Schwarzenegger. I am a Republican, I am partisan politics and hope to see a Republican in office and I think he has the best shot of winning.
HEMMER: Shocker, you voted for yourself.
QUINN: I had to.
HEMMER: Hey, Bryan. Thanks, you're a good sport. Bryan Quinn, a candidate for governor in California.
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Aired October 2, 2003 - 09:33 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Now to California and a shift in strategy. Arnold Schwarzenegger is talking as if he is already governor even though the election isn't until Tuesday. But there's a controversial article now about the front runner this morning in "the Los Angeles Times."
Bob Franken is live in Los Angeles. Bob, I'm sure you've read it, and wondering what the reaction is out there.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, so far, of course, as early in the day as it is, people's reaction is to sort of look at "The Times" and read it a second time. "The L.A. Times" is reporting interviews with six women, most of them identified, who say that in the decades 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and the year 2000 they were in separate incidents groped by Schwarzenegger on the movie set or off the movie set in some circumstances.
Now the Schwarzenegger spokesmen say he will not be available. Spokesman Sean Walsh says that the charges are untrue. Went on to say, "We believe Democrats are using this to try and hurt Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign." Schwarzenegger is beginning a tour of the state, a bus tour where reporters will be involved. So, of course, they will be asking. We do not know if Schwarzenegger will change his mind and comment on the article.
Now Schwarzenegger made a speech yesterday which many are taking as a sign from him that with the polls so much his favor, he believes that he's pretty much already won.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIF GOV. CANDIDATE: We are ready to take action, and we are ready to return California to the people.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FRANKEN: He said that would happen when he took office. Comments that were described by the people in the Gray Davis camp, Davis of course trying to avoid recall, and the spokesman called the Schwarzenegger comments presumptuous. They were out campaigning wit the latest Democrat, national candidate du jour who is Wesley Clark, who was campaigning with Davis in Los Angeles yesterday.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
WESLEY CLARK (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: ... all of you who agree with me that you must vote no on this recall. 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's going to have to be the real strategy for the Democrats and those opposing the recall, a massive and successful get-out-the-vote campaign. Because if the polls are any indications, Davis has a lot of work in the five days remaining -- Heidi.
COLLINS: Bob, just wondering, could this newfound confidence, or some people are calling it, as you say a little presumptuous, could it turn some voters off? Or do you think they're really going to like the way that he's speaking now?
FRANKEN: Probably yes and yes. There's probably a little bit of both in California. And it is so hard to figure how the voters are going to react. And the analysis is that people are just so fed up that sometimes the normal political considerations just don't apply and people are going to watch very closely if that's the case in this recall election.
COLLINS: Bob Franken in Los Angeles, thanks so much.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: It may not have much of an impact on the recall vote, but six candidates including some you know already, appeared yesterday on a game show called "Who Wants to be Governor of California?" There's Gary Coleman.
When it was over, three left standing, including porn star Mary Carey, she's one of them. Another one is Bryan Quinn, a 20-year-old student and a Republican. He joins us live from Sacramento. Nice to see you, Bryan, good morning to you.
BRYAN QUINN (R), CALIF. GOV. CANDIDATE: How you doing, Bill?
HEMMER: I'm doing fine, thanks. How did this show work?
QUINN: Well basically it was a show where they took six candidates that had some unique thing about them. some unique aspect. I was one of them because I'm the youngest candidate on the ballot. And basically they went through, you gave an opening statement, you answered some questions, gave a 10-second sound bite that you thought would make the papers, they judged you on it and then basically who whoever had the points at the end gave a one minute schpiel, if you will. And hopefully people liked mine and vote on mine.
HEMMER: What's you 10 second sound bite, Bryan? QUINN: I spun the wheel and got gay marriage and I said, Hey, I don't want to be the guy that turned my back on them. Turned out pretty good, got some good laughs, and I was able to walk away with the highest score.
HEMMER: Sounds like a politician already. What's in it for the winner?
QUINN: The maximum allowable donation the Game Show Network will make to your campaign which is just over $21,000.
HEMMER: Wow, will that help you?
QUINN: Oh, that helped me a lot. I'm a college student and I have a lot of stuff to do with that money.
HEMMER: Who's your toughest competition?
QUINN: I think it's be depending who votes online. Looking at the demographics it's mostly women and very few women are going to vote for Mary Carey because of her extracurricular activities. But I think Nate Walton is going to be a very tough competitor, he's a very smart guy. But I think hopefully in the end people will see that I'm the one who actually has a platform. I have an economic platform, an education platform and an energy platform. And I think people will realize that I'm the one who has the best shot of actually running this state.
HEMMER: The economy is probably the No. 1 issue in this recall. What's your platform for the economy?
QUINN: My platform has to do what New York did back in the 1970s and declare the state of California insolvent. I think this would work for us and I think it's the only key to California's return to prosperity.
HEMMER: So California says it's bankrupt is what you're saying, right?
QUINN: Yes, it's kind of like a quasi-bankruptcy, exactly.
HEMMER: Listen, who you voting for next Tuesday?
QUINN: I've actually already voted, took a bunch of pictures. I voted for myself, but I am -- if I look at the serious candidates, I do root for Arnold Schwarzenegger. I am a Republican, I am partisan politics and hope to see a Republican in office and I think he has the best shot of winning.
HEMMER: Shocker, you voted for yourself.
QUINN: I had to.
HEMMER: Hey, Bryan. Thanks, you're a good sport. Bryan Quinn, a candidate for governor in California.
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