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Anti-Schwarzenegger Website Gets Support
Los Angeles Times | November 29 2004
A week after a group set up a website to oppose changing the U.S. Constitution to allow Arnold Schwarzenegger to become president, more than 3 million people have visited the site, and more than $10,000 have been pledged to the campaign.
The money will go toward a campaign by nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Alex Jones and his group Americans Against Arnold to air commercials on radio and cable television to rally opposition to the proposed legislation.
Jones, who lives in Austin, Texas, hopes to put the cable ads on television in California to counter commercials supporting a constitutional change that would allow foreign-born citizens, including Schwarzenegger, to seek the highest office in the country.
"I personally am against a foreign-born person being president," said Jones, a former Republican who is now a Libertarian. "People want their president to be born in this country."
He is also troubled by Schwarzenegger's past, which includes allegations that he groped women, used steroids and schemed about his eventual rise to power. "The guy has all of the classic symptoms of a megalomaniac," Jones said.
A Schwarzenegger spokesman declined to comment.
But Schwarzenegger supporters have sent e-mails to the anti-Arnold site to warn that they are messing with the wrong man.
Said one e-mail: "He will smash you like the girlie men you are."
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