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To: D. Long who wrote (9671)	9/28/2003 4:01:30 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793640

California Insider A Weblog by Sacramento Bee Columnist Daniel Weintraub September 27, 2003 Republican Party directors call emergency meeting The California Republican Party has scheduled an emergency board of directors meeting for Monday at 1 p.m. in Burbank to consider endorsing a candidate in the recall replacement election. It's clear that at least some of the directors want the party to go on record endorsing Arnold. Once again, this bullying of McClintock strikes me as futile. Unless he has sent a signal that he would withdraw if the pary directors endorse Arnold, I don't see how this will change anything, other than to give McClintock one more "backroom deal" to rail against and give his supporters one more reason to consider him a hero. Then again, with Arnold and Cruz running neck-and-neck, if Arnold can somehow take half or more of the 15 percent to 18 percent now backing McClintock, it might provide the margin of victory. I'm just not a fan of political parties, especially when they act this way, so I have a natural adverse reaction to this sort of thing. I still think Arnold gets those votes anyway on Election Day, but doing it this way further polarizes the race and makes it tougher for him to win crossover and independent votes. Posted by dweintraub at 09:01 PM What's next, an endorsement? Final two paragraphs of a story posted today at CNN.Com: "Saturday, Bustamante made the unusual move of praising one of the Republican contenders. Bustamante talked up McClintock, who has been taking votes from Schwarzenegger and could spoil the actor's chances if Davis were recalled -- thus allowing Bustamante a chance to win. "'The one who's really been moving in this race has been Tom McClintock,' Bustamante said at a campaign stop in Los Angeles. 'Tom has done a good job to get up there. ... Tom has a really strong message, and there's a group of people out there who strongly believe in his values.'" Thanks for the tip from reader JT. Posted by dweintraub at 08:01 PM Recall options market moving to Arnold From time to time during this campaign we have checked in with the betting at TradeSports.com, where you can buy futures contracts on the recall and the race to replace. In the latest trading, “recall fails” has dropped from 42 to 23 on a scale of 0-to-100 in just the past few days. A contract on Arnold to win has climbed from 34 to 56. And a contract for Cruz to win has fallen from 31 to 23. McClintock to win: 1.7. The way these contracts work is that you buy them on the trading block at a price set by the market, and if your pick wins, you get back 100. If your pick loses, you get nothing. Caveat: while there are 14,000 of these contracts in circulation, daily trading is quite light and might be subject to manipulation. sacbee.com

To: D. Long who wrote (9671)	9/28/2003 7:17:57 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793640

It is offending a lot of people's sense of propriety for a very small fulfillment of demand. This if from yesterday's Post article. It boggles my mind that either group would want to call people who will just hang up on them or worse. I suppose they're just desperate. <<The two industry trade groups that challenged the registry in court were split on their advice to members about what to do on Wednesday. The Direct Marketing Association, which brought the Oklahoma City case, advised its members to adhere to the do-not-call list even though it is no longer mandatory. "We do not want to call people who say they don't want to get calls," said the group's president, H. Robert Wientzen. DMA represents 4,700 firms in the United States, including many of the publishers, telecommunications firms and financial services firms that use the phone as one way to market their goods. But Tim Searcy, executive director of the American Teleservices Association, which brought the Denver suit, said he is advising his group's members to continue to call consumers after Oct. 1. "From a consumer point of view, I don't think much will change at first," he said. "The judge said it was illegal to create the list, which gives you the impression it's illegal to use the list." The ATA is made up of 650 firms that make phone calls to consumers' homes, often on behalf of other companies. It has aggressively fought the do-not-call list because telephone solicitations are its members' main business. The DMA membership, on the other hand, uses direct mail and other ways to reach consumers.>>