Gubernador Shuts Door on Latino Reporter
In their continued quest to show Californians that Gov. Schwarzenegger truly (really, honestly, no seriously) is a man of the people, his culturally sensitive campaign team decided not only to carefully select the props…err, I mean audience…for his latest “Town Hall” charade, they also kept out the reporter from California’s largest Spanish-language daily newspaper:
"In front of the K&N Engineering, an air filter company in Riverside where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger held a community meeting with approximately 50 people, there was a series of protests by opponents and another 50 individuals dismayed for being refused entry.
"Members of the Governor’s security team also closed the door to La Opinión, despite the reporter having presented the appropriate city and county press credentials as well as personal identification.
"While the incident took place, two English language media reporters were given access to the event..." (La Opinion, 9/13/05, translation mine)
La Opinion reaches 484,695 everyday and is the second most read newspaper in Los Angeles after the LA Times.
You would think the Team Arnold campaign machine would be pulling out all the stops to attract Latino support for his agenda considering the latest PPIC survey shows more than 73 percent of Latinos disapprove of the Governor’s performance.
But this kind of treatment is nothing new coming from the Governor and his allies on the conservative right:
“The California Republican Assembly that meets monthly in Riverside has not allowed this reporter access to previous meetings either.” (La Opinion, 9/13/05)
It looks like Schwarzenegger’s adviser/press secretary/acting communications director is going to have the Gubernador trot out the old standard “I love Mexico” line to make up for this comportamiento vergonzoso.
"In front of the K&N Engineering, an air filter company in Riverside where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger held a community meeting with approximately 50 people, there was a series of protests by opponents and another 50 individuals dismayed for being refused entry.
"Members of the Governor’s security team also closed the door to La Opinión, despite the reporter having presented the appropriate city and county press credentials as well as personal identification.
"While the incident took place, two English language media reporters were given access to the event..." (La Opinion, 9/13/05, translation mine)
La Opinion reaches 484,695 everyday and is the second most read newspaper in Los Angeles after the LA Times.
You would think the Team Arnold campaign machine would be pulling out all the stops to attract Latino support for his agenda considering the latest PPIC survey shows more than 73 percent of Latinos disapprove of the Governor’s performance.
But this kind of treatment is nothing new coming from the Governor and his allies on the conservative right:
“The California Republican Assembly that meets monthly in Riverside has not allowed this reporter access to previous meetings either.” (La Opinion, 9/13/05)
It looks like Schwarzenegger’s adviser/press secretary/acting communications director is going to have the Gubernador trot out the old standard “I love Mexico” line to make up for this comportamiento vergonzoso.
posted by Roger Salazar & Andrew Acosta at 1:58 PM
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