Todd Harris
Todd Harris
Todd Harris is a play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports and the NBC Sports Network...
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What is the point of having an election if party bosses in the back rooms can ultimately control the outcome?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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We had to weather the beating that we took.
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Most public school teachers are great, but everyone knows there is a small percentage that, frankly, don't belong in the classroom,
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It doesn't help party unity and it's a slap in the face of party unity.
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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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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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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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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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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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The public will be given a stark choice,