Slimeball consultants running the Schwarzenegger campaign.
[Arnold’s got himself a gaggle of slimeball consultants that specialize in negative campaigning and lousy ethics. Just what the state needs. -Thomas]
California Confidential
Who are the mystery men behind the recall push?
By Max Blumenthal
The American Prospect
Wednesday 13 August 2003
“It’s a victory. A total victory!” Howard Kaloogian exclaimed on the right-wing Worldmag.com after hearing that the petition to recall the election of California’s embattled Gov. Gray Davis had gained enough signatures to qualify as a ballot question. Kaloogian, a former Republican California legislator, had plenty of reason to cheer. Because while the media have presented Rep. Darrell Issa (D-Calif.), the wealthy car-alarm magnate, as the man who drove the recall, he’s actually been little more than a useful idiot for a stealthy group of GOP operatives who laid the groundwork. Months before the recall was even a blip on the media radar, this consultant cabal began manipulating California’s idiosyncratic electoral system, creating a muscular funding mechanism and exploiting it for its members’ own ends.
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