I posted this at my Fishwars blog but nobody reads it, so I thought I’d offer it here as a diary. I found this on an obscure newspaper’s web site (Rocklin and Roseville).
To access links to sources, please visit http://fishwars.blogspot.com/2005/07/a-team.html#comments I’m not very good with html. Thanks.
Schwarzenegger’s political arm, California Recovery Team, has a Web ad on news compendium ‘Rough and Tumble’ that seems to compare him to former Govs. Hiram Johnson and Edmund G. ‘Pat’ Brown.
Rocklin and Roseville Today quotes (in the bottom section of their web page) Tod Harris, CRT spokesman:
‘I don’t know that we’re comparing Gov. Schwarzenegger to Governors Johnson and Brown but . . . there have been important reform-minded governors in the past and that is the model Gov. Schwarzenegger looks to,’ said CRT spokesman Todd Harris.
Asked how Schwarzenegger is similar to Brown, a Democrat known for expanding California’s government, Harris said, ‘They both have ‘A’s in their names.’ “
First, I’m outraged that they’d use Pat Brown’s image in a Schwarzenegger ad and second they don’t seem to know why they used it. That’s an actual quote about them both having “A’s” in their names. I didn’t make that up.
I apologize for not figuring out the href thing.