Adult film star visits church
Porn star Mary Carey went to church on Tuesday ““ to
vote.
One of 135 replacement candidates on the ballot to succeed Gov.
Gray Davis, pending his being recalled, she cast her ballot against
the recall at the First United Methodist Church in North Hollywood
and noted she hadn’t been to church for a while.
She dressed for the occasion in a tight pink halter top and
short skirt ““ to make herself “˜”˜look
innocent,” she said.
By virtue of her day job, Carey has enjoyed more name
recognition than many of the other candidates with scant chance of
winning. But she was already preparing for the end.
“˜”˜If it looks like I’m losing in the
polls,” she said, “˜”˜I”˜”˜ll be
giving a concession speech.”
One voter at the polling place, 40-year-old Vic Miyahira, said
he hadn’t voted for Carey but added, “˜”˜I do have
one of her DVDs.”
Bustamante’s father has some fun at the
polls
FRESNO ““ Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante’s father had a
little fun at his son’s expense while scanning the list of
135 replacement candidates on Tuesday’s recall ballot.
“˜”˜I’m looking for Arnold. Where’s
Arnold?” the elder Cruz Bustamante joked at the
polling place in Fresno, where the lieutenant governor, the
grandson of Mexican immigrants, lived for many years.
“˜”˜You want to sleep outside tonight, for the rest of
the month?” responded Bustamante’s mother,
Dominga.
Bustamante, who brought his parents to the polls, said
regardless of the outcome of the first question on the ballot
““ whether to recall Gov. Gray Davis ““ he’ll be
able to work with a Gov. Schwarzenegger, if need be.
“˜”˜When the battle is done, you have to be able to
work for the people of California,” he said.
“˜”˜One way or another, win or lose, I’m going to
be at work tomorrow morning.”
Schwarzenegger likes title
Even though Arnold Schwarzenegger had to put on glasses to read
the ballot, he said he had no trouble finding his own name among
the 135 candidates to replace Gov. Gray Davis.
“˜”˜Instead of going through two pages I just went
through 10 pages and you always look for the longest
name,” Schwarzenegger said as he cast his ballot with
his wife, Maria Shriver, in the garage of a mansion in the Pacific
Palisades neighborhood.
The voting had hardly begun Tuesday before a voter addressed him
as “˜”˜governor,” prompting a poll worker to
bark “˜”˜No electioneering!”
Asked how he felt about that title, Schwarzenegger said,
“˜”˜Good, sounds good.”
Davis reluctantly casts vote
Gov. Gray Davis grudgingly acknowledged Tuesday he voted for
fellow Democrat Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante on the second part of the
recall ballot.
The governor had declined throughout the recall race to endorse
his lieutenant’s “˜”˜no on recall, yes on
Bustamante” campaign theme. He had indicated he would
reveal his choice 10 days before the election, but he never
did.
Reporters pressed Davis when he visited a phone bank of union
workers making get-out-the-vote calls. After Sharon Davis said she
voted for Bustamante, Davis said that he’d voted for
“˜”˜the most qualified Democrat” on the
ballot’s second half.
Asked if that meant Bustamante, he said
“˜”˜yes.”
Davis had wanted Democrats to stay out of the race to replace
him in the event of a recall, and he and Bustamante had a chilly
relationship long before Bustamante broke his promise not to run
and entered the race.
Reports compiled from Daily Bruin wire services.