Todd Harris Quotations

So far, this campaign has been very one-sided; the only thing the people have heard about the governor's reform agenda is what they heard from union bosses. Now, they will hear from the governor and learn why he believes these reforms are critical.

Monday-morning quarterbacking that you see at a political convention.

I don't think anyone would dispute that the campaign to oppose these reforms has been led by the union bosses. If anyone wants to argue that it is $96 million or $100 million, wait a few days. The unions have shown no sign of slowing down.

He has stated all along that he will do everything he can for the Republican Party and for Bush, but he will not help to raise soft money.

Here's the problem, ... If your people had shown a modicum of respect when you came to our events, if you hadn't come with bullhorns and been screaming, I wouldn't really have a problem with it.

Our internal data paints a very different picture, ... We also continue to believe that Gov. Schwarzenegger is our best messenger for the reform message and that is evidenced by the fact that we have him playing a prominent role on TV ads.

It doesn't help party unity and it's a slap in the face of party unity.

Most public school teachers are great, but everyone knows there is a small percentage that, frankly, don't belong in the classroom,

We no longer need that part of our Web site and had in fact never even accessed it. Therefore, we took it down.

We had to weather the beating that we took.

Virtually every penny was spent to fight against the governor's reforms. It's very clear by watching those ads and reading the press releases that the ads were targeting the governor and his initiatives.

We are doing a huge absentee ballot and voter turnout program. It is one of the largest in the history of California politics.

There is a tipping point. We believe the union bosses have far surpassed the tipping point.

The proliferation of signs diminishes our landscape and has become a kind of visual pollution. I personally find campaign signs obtrusive, so you won't be seeing my name plastered all over the village.

What is the point of having an election if party bosses in the back rooms can ultimately control the outcome?

To say we're not strained right now would be a mistake, ... We are strained.

The governor thrives on the momentum that he is feeling from the crowds, from the strength of our campaign.

The public has a very complex relationship with this governor.

We always knew we'd be up against deep pockets. Thanks to the F.E.C., the pockets got even deeper.

The public will be given a stark choice,

We felt something this serious deserves a very serious forum.

felt it was very important to let the people of California know this governor plans to be around for the long haul.

There's no question that independent voters are an important part of our winning formula.

Our team was really a combination from a variety of different teams. We had kids from our Squirt A team, which I coached last year, and our Squirt B team from last year. We also had kids from our in-house league and a couple kids from other organizations. The core group came from Squirt A, and the rest came from the other places. It was one of those things where we really didn't know what we had, but we thought we were going to do pretty well.

Coach, I know you get second-guessed all week long. How come you didn't go with anything when you have two time-outs left in the half?

Compared to others in the recall campaign, we were like choir boys.

This campaign is going to offer voters a choice between real reform and moving the state forward or the status quo and more of the same old broken system. I am confident that come Election Day, Californians will be voting for reform.

This is an all hands on deck struggle for reform. We need every reform minded-supporter pounding the pavement.

There were people who didn't lift a finger to help in the fight for reform who will now take great joy in pointing out what we should have done differently.

It's a huge, scary in-your-face reminder of how out of touch the Legislature is,

It's not a 24-month job, it's a five-year job and he intends to see it through to the end.

It's too early to judge, but it certainly creates a vehicle for Dan Page to contrast himself with his opponent.

ever even accessed the form. There are so many egregious examples of this we never even needed to.

It often takes sometimes up to 48 hours for a television station to change your ad rotation after you ask them. Campaigns change their ads all the time to lead up to Election Day, and this is nothing more than that. We will change our rotation again before Election Day, and we will have other spots that feature the governor.

I'm not going to put any stock in a poll that asks voters what they think of a hypothetical ballot matchup that is 14 months and three statewide campaigns away. We've got to get through the special election, the Democratic primary and then a hypothetical general election.

If people are happy with the way things are running in Sacramento, they should vote 'no' across the board. But if they want to send a message that business as usual ain't going to cut it anymore, then they should vote 'yes' on all four of these measures.

Californians are not happy with the way things are in Sacramento, which bodes well for whichever side is campaigning for change. Given the political environment, I would not want my campaign message to be, 'Let's leave things exactly the way they are,' which is what our opponents' message will to be.

I don't put any stock in any of this. Right now, the public is only hearing one voice on TV, which is the voice of the special interests who are opposed to the governor's reforms.

If he wants to shadow us around the state, telling people the Legislature are heroes, then I'll pay his gas money.

The union bosses who control the teachers are like a bunch of teenagers with credits cards. They've simply run all around the state charging up massive debts, massive obligations.

The union bosses have spent all year saying this is an election about nothing. It provides no motivation at all for their base to turn out and vote on Election Day.

All of these union bosses are terrified that the governor's reforms are going to take power and influence out of Sacramento and give it back to the people of California, ... The debate over the special election is a simple one - vote yes on the governor's reforms if you want real change, vote no if you are happy with the way things are.

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They've been very helpful. They allow voters to cut through the din and clutter of the $100-million smear campaign the unions have been waging against the governor, and they allow voters to hear directly from the people who are for change and from people who are against change.