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California voters line up to decide on `Terminator`s` fate
Los Angeles, Oct 08: After more than 30 movies, he may have one of the world`s most famous faces, but even action star Arnold Schwarzenegger had to give his name in order to vote for himself as California`s governor.
Los Angeles, Oct 08: After more than 30 movies, he may have one of the world's most famous faces, but even action star Arnold Schwarzenegger had to give his name in order to
vote for himself as California's governor.
Going by the book, a poll worker required the superstar to show identification and say his name before casting his ballot in the historic vote to oust and replace embattled Governor Gray Davis.
In posh pacific palisades, a swarm of local, national, international and even entertainment journalists buzzed before dawn outside the private home serving as the polling place where Schwarzenegger and his Kennedy-clan wife Maria Shriver voted. Director Sidney Pollack arrived early and had to pass through the gauntlet of reporters before going in to cast his ballot in the celebrity-heavy neighborhood.
Schwarzenegger acknowledged the press on this way out, saying: "I want to thank you for following the campaign."
But Schwarzenegger was not so popular at one Hollywood polling place. Miguel Gomes said he cast his vote against the recall.
One voter who declined to give her name also said she hoped the Democrats would stay in power.
"The other one, coming from Germany or whatever, he don't know nothing," she said in heavily accented, broken English. "These immigrants coming in taking over, I don't like this."
Bureau Report
In posh pacific palisades, a swarm of local, national, international and even entertainment journalists buzzed before dawn outside the private home serving as the polling place where Schwarzenegger and his Kennedy-clan wife Maria Shriver voted. Director Sidney Pollack arrived early and had to pass through the gauntlet of reporters before going in to cast his ballot in the celebrity-heavy neighborhood.
Schwarzenegger acknowledged the press on this way out, saying: "I want to thank you for following the campaign."
But Schwarzenegger was not so popular at one Hollywood polling place. Miguel Gomes said he cast his vote against the recall.
One voter who declined to give her name also said she hoped the Democrats would stay in power.
"The other one, coming from Germany or whatever, he don't know nothing," she said in heavily accented, broken English. "These immigrants coming in taking over, I don't like this."
Bureau Report