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in San Jose Vietnamese Community & Interested News:
Oct. 31,
2003: Bellwether
elections loom in South. Governor races often
predict outcome in battle for White House. For strategists trying to
forecast next year’s presidential election, the odd-year gubernatorial
contests in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana have served as pretty good
leading indicators. Kentucky and Mississippi hold gubernatorial elections
next Tuesday, while Louisiana votes on Nov. 15. In the nine gubernatorial
elections in those states since 1991, six times the party that won the governor’s
office carried the state in the presidential election one year later. More
NBC.
Oct. 30, 2003: Firefighters dig in around two areas. BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif., With towering flames bearing down on Southern California mountain towns, firefighters dug in to protect hundreds of homes Thursday while looking for help from drizzling rain and lower temperatures. More NBC.
Oct. 29, 2003: California fires burn more homes. More Southern California communities were likely to be evacuated Wednesday as more than 13,500 firefighters prepared for the possibility that shifting winds could create unpredictable paths for wildfires that had already killed 16 people and destroyed more than 1,800 homes. More NBC.
Oct 11. 2003: $80 million in contributions in 75-day recall campaign. Business groups, labor unions, Indian gaming tribes and other donors spent more than $80 million in the recall campaign, nearly as much as was spent during the entire 2002 gubernatorial general election. More SF. Chronicle.
Oct 10. 2003: Diverse team of advisers. California Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger introduces the head of his transition team Republican Rep. David Dreier during a press conference in a Santa Monica. Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday unveiled a 68-member transition team, an eclectic group that includes the Democratic mayors of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina and the producer of ``Animal House.'' More SJMN. The rest of the team. Including Viet Dinh, Vietnamese American and a former assistant attorney general in Bush's Justice Department.
THE VOTES: Updated election results | GRAPHICS: Prop. 54 | Statewide results
U.S.
signs aviation deal with Vietnam.
HANOI - The United States and Vietnam initialed a milestone aviation agreement
Thursday that clears the way for direct commercial flights between the two
countries for the first time since the Vietnam War ended.
Though it will be a boon to U.S. cargo carriers, the five-year deal appeared
to be a mixed blessing for Bay Area passengers, including the many Vietnamese-Americans
who make regular flights back to their homeland. More
SJMN.
Oct. 8, 2003: Here's Arnold....The Morning After: Schwarzenegger vows to tackle budget deficitGovernor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger answers a question during a post-election press conference at a Los Angeles hotel. (AP) In his first public address since handily winning California's historic gubernatorial recall election, Arnold Schwarzenegger today reiterated his intention to be the ``people's governor.'' More SJMN.
Here's what happens next. The new governor likely won't take over for at least 28 days and potentially as long as 39 days. Before results are final, local election officials are given 28 days to canvass the vote and up to seven more days to report to the secretary of state, who in turn has up to four additional days to declare the election official. Once certification is complete, the governor can be sworn in. If there is no legal challenge, that would occur no later than Nov. 16. More SF. Chronicle. THE VOTES: Updated election results | GRAPHICS: Prop. 54 | Statewide results
THE NEW GOVERNOR So Familiar Yet So Unknown. Californians have never known less about a new governor. We've never seen him hold office. We don't know what programs he'll cut, how he'll balance the budget, how he'll negotiate with recalcitrant legislators or how he'll manage the state's bureaucracy. More LA. Times.
Isolation, Caution Cost Davis Dearly.
Oct. 06, 2003: Arnold arrives at boisterous S.J. rally. With less than 24 hours to go before the polls open on California's unprecedented recall election, Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger surrounded himself with women at an energetic rally today in San Jose, Calif., as he struggled to put momentum-killing sexual misconduct allegations behind him. More SJMN.
Oct. 1, 2003: Arianna Huffington announced her decision to withdraw from the gubernatorial race during an interview with talk show host Larry King. THE CALIFORNIA RECALL Actor gains at expense of governor in new poll Huffington drops out and urges supporters to vote no on recall More SF. Chronicle.