His finance proposals failed but he did win state election reforms that, over time, have made it harder for extremists in both parties to gridlock decision-making.īut passing those reforms consumed almost all of Mr. As governor, he promised to overhaul the way state budgeting decisions were made. Shriver was in tears.Ī 55.4 percent majority of voters elected to recall Mr. “I let my mouth speak for itself,” he said, still laughing at his delight when it said he was running for governor. He was undecided until Jay Leno ushered him onto his couch on the “Tonight Show” and a cheer erupted. He said his now ex-wife, Maria Shriver - whose public accounts have echoed his recollection - was loath to drag their family into the political spotlight. Davis had stood him up at a meeting where he had hoped to lobby for his signature cause, after-school programs. He had not planned to run, even though Republican leaders had begged and Mr. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and blackouts. Davis, a liberal Democrat unlucky enough to have been in charge during the dotcom bust, the Sept. Schwarzenegger came to Sacramento at the expense of Mr. I sometimes wonder if that gravelly Austrian accent might be the voice of Republicanism Without Trump.”Ī global star with a wife from the Kennedy family, Mr. “It may be a rare and a dying breed and it certainly doesn’t reflect the party leaders, but it does reflect something about the character of ordinary Republicans in California. Waldie, a Southern California author and cultural historian, said. “He speaks for a certain kind of California Republican,” D.J. I don’t encourage anyone - or discourage anyone.” “I tell people what the landscape is and what my experience was.
“I have had everyone that is interested in it get in touch with me about it, and talk to me about it, and get advice about it,” Mr. Newsom or any rival or taken a position for or against a recall. He offers advice on the political dynamics, but he has not endorsed Mr. He sees them in person, or on FaceTime or Zoom - “I want to see people’s faces,” he said, brandishing his iPad. Schwarzenegger confidentially for counsel, according to his advisers. Newsom, including some Democrats, have come to Mr. A fire crackled in an outdoor fireplace the size of a real Austrian tank.Īs California’s Republican-led recall campaign has advanced toward a probable November ballot, about a half-dozen prospective challengers to Mr.
It was morning, but he had already exercised and visited with his daughters, who had come by to play tennis. His black zip-up jacket had a governor’s seal patch. Schwarzenegger was serious and funny, brutally honest and wily. In a three-hour interview at his home days before the Newsom recall effort officially qualified for the ballot, Mr. He leaped from the recliner and demonstrated a golf swing and a tennis volley. “Elderly statesman” is how he describes his role now. None of this, he said, is about ever running again for public office. And the environmental summit he is hosting this summer in Austria. There is his Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy at the University of Southern California. The seven-minute video has drawn nearly 78 million views on his social media alone. Schwarzenegger posted a speech comparing their actions to the 1938 Kristallnacht sacking of Jewish neighborhoods by European Nazis. Trump’s false claims of voter fraud stirred a mob to storm Congress, Mr. During the election, he spent $2.5 million in eight states to keep polling places open. He raised millions of dollars last year for protective health gear, anteing up $1 million of his own. Schwarzenegger persuaded past and present governors to join him in an ad touting face masks, and drafted his pets, children, staff and girlfriend, a West Los Angeles physical therapist, into helping produce public service announcements on social distancing and handwashing. “But seeing him out there this year reminds me that Californians also have an ability to forgive and forget.” “As a state, we are drawn to personalities who, like him, speak with clarity about what they stand for and who they are - and have a sense of humor about it,” said Mark Baldassare, president of the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.
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