The Governor Attends a Debate

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Well, I’ve just come home from the Recall debate at CSUS, and I have some preliminary thoughts:

  1. Huffington and Schwarzenegger really don’t like each other.

  2. Huffington and Chwarzenegger really have trouble staying on topic.

  3. Camejo has a tendency to go over the time limits.

  4. The two people who’ve given this the most thought (Camejo and McClintock) are the most ideological extremes.

  5. This debate managed to stay focused (more or less) on budget issues, such as the VLF.

  6. There was quite a bit of debate involving the two propositions on the ballot.

  7. Huffington kept seeming as if what she really wanted to do is to run for President.

  8. I would feel really sorry for both McClintock and Camejo on their first days in the office, when they discover that the legislature has minds of its’ own.

Anyone else with thoughts?

2

Did they televise it at all? I completely missed it. I heard that Huffington and Schwarzenegger got personal at times and had to be reprimanded. Classic. Do you have a brief synopsis of their views? (or can you point me to a link?)

3

Yes, Stan Statham (former state Assemblyman and head of the CBA) did repremand them, it did get personal, and they did televise it all.

I’d give you the synopsis I wrote for my Government class, but it’s three pages long.

4

I think Stan Statham won the debate. He was hilarious. Odd suit though.

5

No worries. I’d be interested in what you thought about the results, though.

6

What I thought of the results? Well, out of all the candidates, Schwarzenegger and Huffington (in addition to often going at it with each other) had an annoying tendency to shift the subject to whatever they wanted to talk about, and Bustamante really failed to leave any sort of an impression (it didn’t help much that, a couple of times, he basically said “me too” to proposals by other candidates). Therefore, it seems to be basically a tie between McClintock and Camejo.