Major Hollywood Dems Defect to Support the Governator
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Well, color me shocked. According to this piece by Nikki Finke, several major Hollywood Democrats -- including Steven Spielberg and Jeffery Katzenberg (but not, interestingly, the third member of the original Dreamworks SKG triumverate, David Geffen) -- have come out in support of their "friend", incumbent governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, over his Democratic rival, Phil Angelides. Also turning out on the Governor's side of the fence is Haim Saban, owner and founder of Saban Entertainment (which may sound more familiar in its post-Disney-buyout incarnation as Buena Vista Entertainment). Saban, as Finke notes, is a particularly perplexing defector, given the $200K he dropped fighting the recall election that gave Ah-nuld the opportunity to muscle his way to the state's top seat. Finke, who is not what one might call an ardent fan of Schwarzenegger to begin with, questions whether the power players jumping ship on their own party is really about friendship or some ulterior, business-related motive (cue Dr. Evil here, saying, "An eeeeevil motive?")
What say you, Californians? Is this news as shocking to you as it apparently was to Finke? Is the Dems candidate really so weak a prospect that it justifies jumping the party line to support Schwarzenegger? Do you buy the line that it's all the the name of friendship, or do you call B.S. on these fickle Democrats as Finke does?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-07-2006 @ 11:17AM
Richard von Busack said...
One clue: Spielberg supposedly has an enormous gun collection, and he's enormously rich. He'll be jumping to the Republican party soon, if he hasn't already. To this Northern Californian, Schwarzenegger's popularity is more evidence we should divide the state in half.
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8-07-2006 @ 12:21PM
Norm said...
For once, someone in Hollywood voting for the man, not the party?????? Who knew it could happen?
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8-07-2006 @ 12:43PM
Justin said...
Money owns politics
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8-07-2006 @ 1:24PM
The Jeremy said...
Dividing the State in half only serves the interests of the Federal Government.
If anything, California should be its own nation state. After all, our State receives less than $0.50 back per dollar that the Feds receive from our income taxes. If cash cow California left the union, it would force the Feds to adopt fiscally sound budgets for a change. Just imagine the decline in the dollar's value if an independent California created its own currency and pegged it to the euro.
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8-07-2006 @ 1:32PM
Cath said...
Angelides is a great candidate. What's going on here has more to do with money (Spielberg is still hurting over Dems preventing him from developing the Playa wetlands), personal connections, and other political shenanigans that don't belong on this blog.
And Jeremy is right: California is one of the largest economies in the world and leads the nation in innovation.
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8-07-2006 @ 3:17PM
Renae said...
Phil Angelides is such a poor democratic candidate that the only choice (lesser of two evils) is Arnold. At least we know what he will do.
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