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	Cruz Bustamante - dKosopedia
		Cruz Bustamante was born January 4, 1953 in Dinuba, California.
		Bustamante's decision to run in the recall election was controversial, as many supporters of Governor Davis had urged prominent Democrats not to run, in an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the event.
		Bustamante is a moderate Democrat, and in the 2004 presidential primary served as California campaign chair for U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman's campaign.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Cruz_Bustamante (603 words)

	Cruz Bustamante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American politician.
		Nao Bustamante, Cruz's youngest sister, is an internationally known contemporary performance artist.
		Bustamante was elected to the California State Assembly in a special election in 1993, and became the Speaker of the Assembly in 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cruz_Bustamante (869 words)

	'MEChA Boy' Reconquista Cruz Bustamante' Antics
		Cruz Bustamante acknowledged in an interview that his controversial campaign during the recall election ruined his dreams of becoming governor, but said he's frustrated with developments at the Capitol and plans to run for another statewide office in 2006.
		Cruz Bustamante pulled some of his television ads off the air and will return up to $177,000 of the $3.8 million that a judge ruled he raised in violation of state campaign finance laws, according to a notice filed in court Monday.
		Cruz Bustamante got credit but did not have to attend a basic speech class at Fresno State in the late 1990s because a professor decided in 15 minutes or less that the Fresno Democrat would have earned at least a C based on his public utterances.
	www.americanpatrol.com /REFERENCE/Bustamante-Cruz.html (3055 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Hispanic Heritage - Biographies - Cruz M. Bustamante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cruz M. Bustamante was born on January 4, 1953, in Dinuba, California, the first of six children born to Cruz and Dominga Bustamante.
		In 1994 Bustamante was reelected as assemblyman of the 31st District.
		Bustamante recalled the tensions between white and Latino children in school and he learned as a child that it was best for him to tread in the middle of the two extremes.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/chh/bio/bustamante_c.htm (2201 words)

	Cruz Bustamante (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cruz Bustamante Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American politician.
		Bustamante was born in Dinuba, California and attended but dropped out of Fresno City College.
		Bustamante drew some criticism during the election for his involvement with the Chicano organization MEChA in the 1970s.
	cruz-bustamante.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (315 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics > Gray Davis Recall -- Bustamante wants to put gas prices on Cruz-control
		Bustamante outlined his gas plan at the start of a busy day in which he sought support from the state's Indian tribes and skirted questions about his involvement with a controversial Chicano student group.
		Bustamante said he would support a new bill by Sen. Joe Dunn, D-Garden Grove, that would simply add gasoline to the list of commodities that may be regulated by the Public Utilities Commission.
		Bustamante suggested afterward that he is willing to eliminate a limit of 2,000 slot machines per tribe.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/recall/20030828-1958-cnscruz.html (1095 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Bustamante: The Racist in the Race? by Lowell Ponte
		The oldest of six children, Cruz Bustamante grew up south of Fresno, California, with his siblings, mother Dominga and father Cruz, a barber and, briefly, local City Councilman.
		Returning home, Bustamante began attending Fresno State University, where he also failed to graduate but immersed himself in local and student politics, including the racial activism of MEChA, a group whose name is an acronym for “Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de AZTLAN,” the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan.
		Fellow Democrats apparently sat Bustamante down and explained that California was not yet Mexico, that the voters would not accept such an obvious banana republic coup d’etat or his shredding and burning of the constitution in front of their eyes.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9325 (2226 words)

	Los Angeles Times: Political Muscle
		Cruz Bustamante certainly has run one of oddest campaigns in California, if not the country.
		Bustamante, right, has made his quest for insurance commissioner almost entirely about his self-described obesity and efforts to lose weight.
		Now, Bustamante is spending the last of his dwindling campaign money on two new TV ads â” about $780,000 worth of airtime as the election draws near.
	latimesblogs.latimes.com /politicalmuscle/2006/10/cruz_bustamante.html (348 words)

	University Journal
		When Cruz M. Bustamante was a student senator at Fresno State in the mid-'70s, student government here was "polarized," but he is credited with breaking through and bringing people together - a skill that has helped lead him to the state's second highest office.
		This distinction for the university is further padded with the reelection of State Senator Jim Costa, a 1974 grad, and the election of Charles Poochigian, a 1972 grad, to replace out-going State Senator Ken Maddy, a 1957 grad.
		Bustamante and his wife, the former Arcelia De La Pena, have three daughters, Leticia, Sonia, Marisa, and a grandson, David.
	www.csufresno.edu /journal/vol2/1116/cruz.html (604 words)

	eyeoncruz's Xanga Site
		Cruz Bustamante is wrong not to speak more clearly to the issues raised by his one-time membership in a Chicano student organization whose founding credo is a mind-numbing amalgam of quaint revolutionary rhetoric and pseudo-mystical racialism.
		Nobody in their right mind believes Cruz Bustamante wants to return California to Mexico, just as no rationale person believes that Arnold Schwarzenegger's ceremonial presence on the board of U.S. English means he subscribes to the sinister sentiments advanced by some of those who lurk among the group's leaders.
		Bustamante also challenged Davis' handling of the crisis, saying he would have quickly reacted to the state's energy crisis by challenging the energy companies he says are responsible for depleting the budget surplus.
	www.xanga.com /home.aspx?user=eyeoncruz (3047 words)

	FOXNews.com - Bustamante Won't Renounce Ties to Chicano Student Group - Politics \| Republican Party \| Democratic Party ...
		LOS ANGELES California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante (search), the grandson of Mexican immigrants who counts improving race relations among his biggest pursuits, refused Thursday to renounce his past ties to a little-known Hispanic organization considered by critics to be as racist as the Ku Klux Klan.
		Some of Bustamante's contemporaries from the group say he was a moderate, not a militant member of the organization.
		Bustamante called it a slip of the tongue, but audience members attending the Black History celebration were stunned at the reference, for which he did not apologize until the end of his 10-minute speech.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,95871,00.html (1082 words)

	OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
		Bustamante and campaign manager Richie Ross frequently confuse the issue by railing against those who oppose "immigrants getting driver's licenses." But the issue is whether illegal immigrants should get a state-issued license to drive.
		Bustamante's parents "would not speak Spanish in his household when he was young" so that he could learn English.
		But having raised the bloody shirt of anti-immigration, Cruz Bustamante should be forced to explain his support for Nativo Lopez, who was repudiated by the very people he claims to represent.
	www.opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110003960 (1144 words)

	Woodalls Open Roads Forum: Cruz Bustamante (Lt. Governor of California) = Racist???
		Bustamante was an active member of "MEChA" a radical Mexican/American Organization which seeks to take back Mexican land lost in the war (Mexican-American war) or sold by Mexico to the U.S. They seek to take back the entire southwestern United States from Texas to California and from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.
		Cruz Bustamante owes his political success largely to the training he received as a Mechista and is unlikely to turn his back on his comrades that gave him his start at Fresno State University.
		Cruz Bustamante belonged to at Fresno State University in the mid-1970s has its roots in a nationalistic protest movement but is better known on college campuses for working to recruit and retain Latino students." Citing the slogan "For the race everything.
	www.woodalls.com /forums/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/7674801.cfm (3640 words)

	OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
		Cruz Bustamante is the front-runner to become governor of California if Gray Davis is recalled next month.
		Bustamante is the first major Latino candidate for governor in 125 years--has gotten him a surprising pass from the media.
		Bustamante as a replacement: "He should run when the right time comes to run, at the end of a term." Hardly a vote of confidence.
	www.opinionjournal.com /diary/?id=110004007 (902 words)

	MEChA Boy Fifth-Columnist Pest Cruz Bustamante (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bustamante made political history by becoming the first Latino Speaker of the State Assembly in 1996, winning nearly 90 percent of the state's Latino vote.
		And after Bustamante broke with Gov. Gray Davis over an appeal of Proposition 187 - the controversial state ballot measure that curtailed social services for undocumented immigrants - he was called "the most courageous politician" in California.
		Bustamante soon learned that he had a penchant for raising money, and was offered a part-time job working as a fundraiser for local Assemblyman Rick Lehman.
	www.americanpatrol.com.cob-web.org:8888 /MECHA/makingofbustamante991030.html (1406 words)

	Full Biography for Cruz M. Bustamante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cruz M. Bustamante was born in the town of Dinuba January 1953, to Dominga and Cruz Bustamante Jr.
		Cruz has served on the Assembly Appropriations, Budget, Insurance, Utilities and Commerce and Higher Education committees, and was also Democratic Caucus Chair.
		Cruz is married to the former Arcelia De La Pena.
	www.smartvoter.org /1998nov/ca/state/vote/bustamante_c/bio.html (339 words)

	Cruz Bustamante. - By Chris Suellentrop - Slate Magazine
		Cruz Bustamante's campaign for California governor boasts what is no doubt the most unwieldy URL in the short history of online politics: www.noonrecallyesonbustamante.com.
		Bustamante is against the people who organized the recall effort (they're "hijacking democracy") but not the people who signed the petitions ("they're not part of some kind of a conspiracy").
		Bustamante was born and raised in San Joaquin.
	www.slate.com /id/2087442 (1455 words)

	Cruising with Cruz
		Cruz Bustamante compares himself to Danny DeVito in his role of Arnold’s twin, but falls well short.
		Republican Tom McClintock is quoted in an interview with the conservative weekly Human Events: "I believe that Cruz Bustamante has a great deal of explaining to do, if he still supports the aims of that organization." At a recent Sacramento news conference, Bustamante sidestepped the MEChA issue.
		Cruz Bustamante, the only prominent Democrat on the Oct. 7 recall ballot, reportedly have received more than $1 million in donations from tribes since 1999.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article2605.html (962 words)

	CNN.com - Democratic unity crumbles in California - Aug. 7, 2003
		Cruz Bustamante, 50, cast his decision as a political calculation on behalf of members of his party.
		Bustamante said he opposed the recall, but said Democrats must face political reality -- that Davis is in political peril.
		Hours later, Bustamante sent out word that he too would be a candidate and he followed up his decision with a news conference Thursday.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/07/democrats.recall/index.html (595 words)

	Cruz Bustamante for Governor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cruz went to school, worked in the fields and studied to be a butcher.
		Cruz's rise from the fields of California's Central Valley to his elections as an Assemblyman, Speaker of the Assembly and then California's Lieutenant Governor was, "the direct result of the lessons I learned about work, honesty and loyalty from my family and my community.
		While others argued over what to do about the energy crisis, Cruz sued the energy companies that were gouging California consumers and sponsored legislation to make their activities a crime.
	www.kerndemocrats.com /Recall/Bustamante?print-friendly=true (457 words)

	USATODAY.com - Lieutenant governor jumps into California race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cruz Bustamante announced late Wednesday he plans to run in the state's gubernatorial recall election, becoming the first prominent Democrat to abandon Gov. Gray Davis' efforts to keep fellow party members off the ballot.
		Bustamante's announcement came hours after Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno that he was running for governor.
		Bustamante, the first Hispanic lieutenant governor in California in more than a century, said in a faxed statement he planned to pick up candidacy papers at 10 a.m.
	www.usatoday.com /news/politicselections/2003-08-07-calif-lt-gov_x.htm (325 words)

	USATODAY.com - Slip of tongue could have been chance to educate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WASHINGTON — Cruz Bustamante had a golden opportunity to break the "fourth wall" of this nation's troubled race relations.
		The epithet slipped out as Bustamante was reciting a list of fl labor groups that came into existence during the last century, some of which had the word "Negro" in their title.
		Bustamante should have told his audience that despite the stellar civil-rights record he's amassed as an adult, he grew up during the '50s and '60s when people were exposed to racial stereotypes and epithets.
	usatoday.com /news/opinion/columnists/wickham/2001-02-14-wickham.htm (708 words)

	Lieutenant Governor Uses Racial Slur in Black History Speech
		Cruz Bustamante, who has made improvement of race relations a cornerstone of his public career, referred to African Americans by a racial slur at a Black History Month speech, a word he characterized as a "slip" and said he regretted.
		Many of the fl labor activists who heard Bustamante use the word walked out of the speech Friday night in Emeryville and were still angry yesterday, saying an apology the lieutenant governor issued at the end of his talk wasn't enough.
		Bustamante, the state's highest ranking Latino, was the keynote speaker at the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists annual awards dinner and scholarship fund-raiser.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/13/MN135375.DTL (837 words)

	Bruce Bartlett on Cruz Bustamante and Gas Prices on NRO Financial
		Bustamante’s problem is that he is only getting about a third of the vote in public opinion polls, despite the fact that he is the only major Democrat running to replace Davis.
		With 45 percent of registered voters belonging to the Democratic party, Bustamante should be doing much better than he is. Hence the appeal to the party’s extremists.
		The danger is that Bustamante’s strategy is going to make middle-of-the-road voters doubt his basic competence for office, thus improving the chances for a Republican candidate to attract enough independent votes to put him over the top.
	www.nationalreview.com /nrof_bartlett/bartlett090303.asp (921 words)

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