Schwarzenegger Becomes the GOP's Green Candidate

[Judi Lynn]

September 7, 2003


THE RECALL CAMPAIGN
Schwarzenegger Becomes the GOP's Green Candidate
He's in step with many voters, but not Bush, on environment. He may retrofit his Hummer.



By Kenneth R. Weiss and Miguel Bustillo, Times Staff Writers


Arnold Schwarzenegger, long associated with one of the least environmentally friendly cars, is talking about retrofitting his Hummer to run on clean-burning hydrogen. The move is symbolic of a platform intended to appeal to voters in a state that has been at the forefront of environmental protection.

With Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation's most prominent environmental activists and a cousin of Schwarzenegger's wife, advising him on strategy, the film star is crafting a set of positions at odds with the Bush administration on a broad range of issues, from logging in the Sierra Nevada to controlling greenhouse gases from cars and trucks.

As the leading candidates in the Oct. 7 recall election articulate where they stand on a variety of environmental issues in California, Schwarzenegger's views are closer to those of liberal rivals than of his two Republican competitors.

Peter V. Ueberroth, for example, has distanced himself from a new state law, embraced by Schwarzenegger, that will require cars and trucks to emit less carbon dioxide to combat global warming. Ueberroth argues that the new pollution controls "would make automobile ownership more expensive." (snip/...)

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-enviro7sep07000421,1,7615990.story?coll=la-headlines-politics

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[Ardee]

1. interesting take that .....

I wonder when repugs will start calling him a democratic plant and a spy? by the by I heard him brag once about owning nine Hummers...if you can even imagine that ........