Gov.'s Allies Upset at Enemy Within
Friday, April 14, 2006, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Few people have worked harder than Joe Nuñez to sabotage Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's political fortunes. A high-ranking teachers union official, he helped engineer the governor's embarrassing defeat in the special election last year.
So to Republicans, it was nothing short of infuriating and confounding that Schwarzenegger would appoint Nuñez to the state Board of Education. He handed a Democrat and avowed enemy one of the most prestigious patronage jobs in government.
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Governor to push global warming fight
Friday, February 17, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle
Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is expected this month to release a plan to combat global warming that recommends raising petroleum prices and requiring industries to report, for the first time, their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Kennedy May Be More of a Liability Than Help to Gov.
Monday, February 13, 2006, Los Angeles Times
This probably was not what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had in mind when he signed up Democrat Susan Kennedy to be his chief of staff.
You've got to wonder, however, what exactly he was thinking. It looks like yet another case of political naivete.
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Gov.'s Top Aide Was Paid by Developer
Susan Kennedy is pushing to fix the state's water system. In 2005, she consulted for a firm with an aquifer project.
Friday, February 10, 2006, Los Angeles Times
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new chief of staff, who is spearheading a $9-billion plan to improve California's water system, was paid $120,000 last year by a Los Angeles developer seeking to build a massive water storage project under the Mojave Desert.
According to interviews and her financial disclosure statement, Susan P. Kennedy earned $10,000 per month in 2005 as a consultant to Cadiz Real Estate, operated by her longtime friend Keith Brackpool.
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GOP divide over governor widens
Still, no consensus has formed around the notion of withdrawing the state Republican Party's endorsement of Schwarzenegger.
Thursday, February 9, 2006, Orange County Register
SACRAMENTO – Republican activists are gaining ground in a bid to get their party to denounce Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's spending policies, but there's no agreement between factions on their most contentious proposal: getting the state GOP to yank its endorsement of him in the November election.
The chairman of the state party has agreed to help get three draft resolutions against the governor's budget, public-works and minimum-wage-increase proposals a "full and fair hearing" at the Feb. 24-26 GOP convention in San Jose. After discussions with party Chairman Duf Sundheim over the weekend, two of the resolutions' sponsors agreed to tweak their proposals to focus on policy rather than attacking Schwarzenegger.
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Governor's new chief of staff piles it on
Susan Kennedy now also is head campaigner
Sunday, February 5, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle
Susan Kennedy has been described as Satan, a sellout, a traitor, a spy -- and a brilliant political operative.
And if that's not enough, Kennedy -- the Democratic workhorse who has become Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's chief of staff -- has recently assumed one more title: head campaigner.
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“The governor is now adding thousands of new workers to the state payroll and lavishing money on the unions that opposed him.”
Dan Walters
Sacramento Bee Columnist,
February 7, 2006
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It's a big plus for Arnold.
It shows he understood the message from the November election."
Recalled Governor Gray Davis, on
the Susan Kennedy Appointment
(Sacramento Bee, 12/1/05)
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Schwarzenegger praises his old nemesis Gray Davis
Wednesday, December 7, 2005, Reuters
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Former California Governor Gray Davis, unceremoniously ousted midway through his term two years ago by Arnold Schwarzenegger, returned to the capitol on Wednesday at a time his reputation has seen a gradual revival.
Republican Schwarzenegger, who had little good to say about the Democrat during the unprecedented recall 2003 election, praised him at the unveiling of Davis' official portrait.
"Gov. Davis has served this state for more than 30 years," Schwarzenegger said. "He has done an incredible job."
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John Fund Article
Arnold's 'Harriet Miers Moment'
Has Gov. Schwarzenegger jumped the shark?
December 5, 2005 in the Opinion Journal
Arnold Schwarzenegger stunned California last week by selecting the former deputy chief of staff to Gray Davis, the Democratic governor ousted by the recall that brought Mr. Schwarzenegger to power, to be his own chief of staff.
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Facts About Susan Kennedy
- Cabinet Secretary and Deputy Chief of Staff in the administration of Governor Gray Davis
- The highest-ranking member of the governor's office reported to be aware of the Oracle contract. (C|Net)
- Executive Director of the California Democratic Party
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