Arnie's dinner bill feeds opponents

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Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Thursday February 10, 2005
The Guardian

All major credit cards are accepted. Four photographs of yourself and the governor are included. And you can bring three friends.

For $100,000 (£54,000), Californians are being invited to dinner with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The less extravagant may wish to consider the $10,000 option, although they should be aware that this entitles them only to a single photograph of the governor and no seat at the top table.

The seats are on sale for four events scheduled for the coming months by Citizens to Save California, a group set up to raise money for the governor's latest legislative wheeze: a $50m campaign to place some of his concerns before voters in a special election this year under California's "initiative" system.

But the fundraising has caused a political storm and led to the first meaningful protests against the governor.

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