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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Body Builder,
Actor,
Governor?
By,
Lauren Jones
The Body Builder
• Considered one of the world’s most important body builders
• “Arnold Classic” body building award created after him
• Won 5 Mr. Universes and 7 Mr. Olympias
The Actor
• “Hercules” in Hercules in New York
• Most famous for The Terminator movies
• Schwarzenegger’s switch to acting from body building was tough because of his thick Austrian accent.
• In “Hercules”, his producers were worried that audiences would not be able to understand him
The Politician
• Registered as Republican, which is opposite of most actors
• Announced that he was running in the 2003 California Recall election in August, 2003
The Recall Election
• Democrat Gray Davis- former governor before Schwarzenegger
• In this election, 900,000 signatures of registered voters were needed (12% of total votes in November state election)
• 1.6 million votes were gathered in this process
Recalled
• Gray Davis was blamed for an energy crisis that had been occurring in California
• People blamed him because of a triple in energy bills
• He promised to pay energy companies , inflated prices
The Other “Candidates”
• The election brought about some other “crazy” candidates:
Two of the Candidates
• Larry Flynt: Publisher of Hustler magazine
• Leo Gallagher: Comedian
More Candidates
• Garrett Gruener: Creator of ask.com
• Gary Coleman: Actor
Really Outrageous
• Kurt E. “Tachikaze” Rightmyer: Sumo Wrestler
• Mary “Mary Carey” Cook: Porn Star
The Results
• Schwarzenegger wins with 48.6% of votes for him; 4,206,284 votes
• Second Place was Cruz Bustamante; 31.5%; 2,724,874 votes
• Third Place: Tom McClintock; 13.4%; 1,161,287 • Fourth place: Peter Camejo;2.8%; 242,247 votes• On the ballot, two questions were asked: 1.
should the present governor be recalled? 2. who should replace him?