SF GATE: Arnold hires Rove protege to run re-election campaign

[yurbud]

I hope whoever the Democratic candidate ends up being, they have the good sense to use evidence like this to make Bush an albatross around Arnold's neck.

And of course we need to send out his naked pics posted on rotten.com.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/19/BAGTQGPLPB1.DTL
SACRAMENTO

Schwarzenegger brings Bush strategist to 2006 campaign

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, steeling for a tough 2006 campaign, has tapped another top White House veteran to join his re-election drive -- hiring Matthew Dowd, a lead architect of the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign to be his chief campaign strategist, sources said Wednesday.

The addition of Dowd, a confidant of top White House aide Karl Rove, Bush's former chief pollster and a former senior adviser to the Republican National Committee, is expected to be announced shortly. The GOP strategist heads ViaNovo, a management and communications firm in Austin, Texas.

***

The decision to hire Dowd marks the second recent addition to the governor's campaign team from the White House top political circle. Steve Schmidt, counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney and the White House point man for President Bush on Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, recently agreed to join Schwarzenegger's effort as campaign manager.