Arnold Schwarzenegger

Body Builder,

Actor,

Governor?

By,

Lauren Jones

The Body Builder

• Considered one of the world’s most important body builders

• “Arnold Classic” body building award created after him

• Won 5 Mr. Universes and 7 Mr. Olympias

The Actor

• “Hercules” in Hercules in New York

• Most famous for The Terminator movies

• Schwarzenegger’s switch to acting from body building was tough because of his thick Austrian accent.

• In “Hercules”, his producers were worried that audiences would not be able to understand him

The Politician

• Registered as Republican, which is opposite of most actors

• Announced that he was running in the 2003 California Recall election in August, 2003

The Recall Election

• Democrat Gray Davis- former governor before Schwarzenegger

• In this election, 900,000 signatures of registered voters were needed (12% of total votes in November state election)

• 1.6 million votes were gathered in this process

Recalled

• Gray Davis was blamed for an energy crisis that had been occurring in California

• People blamed him because of a triple in energy bills

• He promised to pay energy companies , inflated prices

The Other “Candidates”

• The election brought about some other “crazy” candidates:

Two of the Candidates

• Larry Flynt: Publisher of Hustler magazine

• Leo Gallagher: Comedian

More Candidates

• Garrett Gruener: Creator of ask.com

• Gary Coleman: Actor

Really Outrageous

• Kurt E. “Tachikaze” Rightmyer: Sumo Wrestler

• Mary “Mary Carey” Cook: Porn Star

The Results

• Schwarzenegger wins with 48.6% of votes for him; 4,206,284 votes

• Second Place was Cruz Bustamante; 31.5%; 2,724,874 votes

• Third Place: Tom McClintock; 13.4%; 1,161,287 • Fourth place: Peter Camejo;2.8%; 242,247 votes• On the ballot, two questions were asked: 1.

should the present governor be recalled? 2. who should replace him?