Schwarzenegger Is Under the Gun
Rivals Assail the GOP Front-Runner
By Rene Sanchez and William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 19, 2003; Page A15
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 -- With California's recall election in limbo, candidates are biding their time by taking up a new hobby: bashing Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The actor, a front-running Republican in the campaign, has become as much a target of taunts and attacks as the main character in the recall saga, Gov. Gray Davis (D).
The latest ambush came at a candidate debate here Wednesday that featured four prominent candidates sitting next to an empty chair that had been reserved for Schwarzenegger, who has shown no interest in attending any forum but one scheduled for next week in which he and his rivals will know the questions in advance.
After asking repeatedly, "Where's Arnold?" Lt. Gov. Cruz M. Bustamante, the only major Democrat on the recall ballot, proposed that all the leading candidates in the election skip next week's debate and instead try to embarrass Schwarzenegger by holding their own unscripted session outside of the site where the forum will be held.
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