Arianna Huffington blasts Schwarzenegger as Bush Republican

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Seeking to defuse the campaign of Republican rival Arnold Schwarzenegger, California gubernatorial hopeful Arianna Huffington on Thursday blasted the movie star as a “good friend of the Bush administration” beholden to special interests.

“Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Bush Republican through and through,” said the best-selling author, who is running as an independent in the October 7 special election to recall Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.

Huffington then ran through a litany of questions she wants the GOP front-runner to answer, focusing on what she described as ties to Enron chief Ken Lay and various Republicans.

The name Enron resonates in California because the failed energy giant — which collapsed amid reports of shady accounting — was accused of taking advantage of the state’s energy crisis in 2001 to make money…{{link http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/14/huffington/ MORE}}

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