SACRAMENTO -- As Governor Schwarzenegger cruises around California in his air-conditioned campaign bus, his advice to regular Californians on how to escape California's crushing heat wave is: eat popsicles.

"Arnold's comprehensive energy policy for California is to eat popsicles," said Crystal Strait, CYD President. "Arnold has engaged in three years of governing by photo-op ... now it's governing by frozen dessert."

Today, CYD put the Governor's energy strategy into action and handed out free popsicles to Schwarzenegger's staff and other Capitol workers.

There's 6 Million potential young voters in CA and boy do we seem to be popular...

Today's Oak Trib featured an article about the "new" focus on young voters.

Most of the article is a regurgitation of what we've been talking about for a while: young people do want to vote and they care about the same issues everyone else cares about!

The Young Republican's said they were going to focus on mail to young people, and my response quoted response was:

Television ads and direct mail are fine, said the group's president, Crystal
Strait of Sacramento, but to engage and mobilize young voters, there's no
substitute for "having young people from a community talk to young people of
that community about why it's important to vote and what's at stake."

Voting and party membership are learned habits, and Strait said the
general wisdom is that "if you get a young person to vote in three elections,
you have them for life."

In case you missed it, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger joined Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist at the Sacramento Press Club this afternoon to show his support for the anti-immigrant border vigilante Minutemen Project.

Schwarzenegger attended dressed in a colonial Minuteman costume to underline his support for the anti-immigrant group and carried a sign saying, “Thank you Arnold for supporting us anti-immigrant border vigilantes.”

At least, we think it was Arnold. It sounded like him, anyway.

In a CYD exclusive interview at the event, “Arnold” said:
“I’m here to support my good friend Jim Gilchrist and to show my support of the Minutemen Project. If you look at my administration, we have consistenly been anti-immigrant, and anti-Latino, as Sen. Abel Maldonado has recently pointed out.”

“Arnold” went on to note that he has supported the Minutemen for a long time, apparently referring to his 2005 comments in support of the border vigilante group:

“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, just a week after apologizing for suggesting California should "close the borders,'' warmly praised the Minutemen project -- an armed citizens group -- on Thursday for doing a terrific job of stopping illegal immigration from Mexico.

“Although President Bush has criticized the group as vigilantes, Schwarzenegger said, ‘They've done a terrific job.’” (San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2005)

Video footage of “Arnold’s” appearance can be seen on YouTube.

Angelides Leads Schwarnegger in Polls

A Rasmussen Reports poll released today shows Phil Angelides with a 2 point lead over Governor Schwarzenegger. Monthly polls from Rasmussen have shown Angelides consistently improving - in April the Governor held a 13 point lead, in May the race was a dead heat, and the June poll released today shows Angelides with a small lead over the Governor in spite of over $10 million in TV ads from Schwarzenegger.

California Governor: Angelides (D) 46%, Schwarzenegger (R) 44%