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Cyborgs? Try winter in 'Peg, Arnie
Arnold Schwarzenegger (GUILLERMO ARIAS/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES)
AFTER battling evil cyborgs, predatory aliens and California budget hearings, Arnold Schwarzenegger is about to face his toughest environment yet: a Winnipeg winter.
The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce is working on a plan to bring the 63-year-old actor-turned-politician to the Manitoba capital for a fundraising event in the coming weeks, several sources have confirmed.
The two-term Republican governor, who could not run for a third stint in California due to term limits, will be succeeded by Democrat Jerry Brown on Jan. 3, 2011. Governor-elect Brown won 54 per cent of the vote on Tuesday, even though his Republican counterpart, Meg Whitman, spent $160 million on her campaign.
Brown previously served two terms as governor from 1975 to 1983 but is not subject to term limits because they weren't instituted in California until 1990.
It is not clear whether Schwarzenegger will still be in office when he arrives in Winnipeg. It also is not clear who the fundraising event will benefit. Chamber of Commerce president Dave Angus declined to comment.
Another source said details about the event have yet to be worked out. It's expected it will coincide with a visit home by former Manitoba premier Gary Doer, now Canada's ambassador to the United States, who developed a relationship with Schwarzenegger during the last decade.
In 2006, Doer and Schwarzenegger signed a memorandum of understand about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Doer visited Schwarzenegger again in California in 2009 and, after stepping down as Manitoba's premier, hosted the governor at the Canadian embassy in Washington earlier this year.
Despite his celebrity around the world, Schwarzenegger is unpopular in California, where he presided over budget cuts and high unemployment. Commentators in his home state have suggested he would have lost if he were able to run a third time and also suggested his performance contributed to Brown's victory.
Ticket prices and a date for the Schwarzenegger fundraiser are expected to be made public later this month.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 4, 2010 A2
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