Huffington Weighs Quitting Race, Backing Bustamante

[ElsewheresDaughter]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0930-04.htm

Independent commentator Arianna Huffington said Monday she is strongly considering leaving the recall race, signaling a growing fear among the political left that Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger stands a good chance of becoming California's next governor.


Arianna Huffington is worried the GOP will bring "disastrous economic policies."

Huffington, appearing at a campaign event in San Francisco, said she would decide as soon as today whether to urge her supporters to oppose the recall and possibly back Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante -- reflecting the view that in a close race, votes by progressives for Huffington and Green Party candidate Peter Camejo could help elect Schwarzenegger.

"I'm talking to a lot of supporters and people who are part of the campaign.

I'm going to make a decision later this week," she told reporters.

"What is very important . . . is to make sure that the state does not go to a Republican who is going to bring to the state the same disastrous economic policies we have in Washington," she said. "That is a very important consideration."

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[LibInternationalist]

1. Please, please let her do this

[Guaranteed]

2. What a lady! :) n/t

[lazarus]

3. dupe