Todd Harris
Todd Harris
Todd Harris is a play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports and the NBC Sports Network...
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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.
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It's not a 24-month job, it's a five-year job and he intends to see it through to the end.
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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.
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Compared to others in the recall campaign, we were like choir boys.
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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.
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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.
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We had to weather the beating that we took.
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The public has a very complex relationship with this governor.
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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.
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The governor thrives on the momentum that he is feeling from the crowds, from the strength of our campaign.
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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.
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We are doing a huge absentee ballot and voter turnout program. It is one of the largest in the history of California politics.
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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.
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What is the point of having an election if party bosses in the back rooms can ultimately control the outcome?