Weintraub: "What (Arnold) apparently doesn’t see is that to the outside world, when you say you’re not going to take special interest money and then you do, you look like a hypocrite or a liar. And when you define “special interest” as the other guy’s donors, you just look silly."

Rutten: "No matter how far this recall may stray from the Progressives' original intent, it is producing precisely the kind of election contemporary political reformers dream of — one in which overwhelming public interest produces saturation media coverage and, thereby, reduces the need to raise vast sums of campaign money..."

LAT: Jaime Escalante comes to help Schwarzenegger

Lopez: 'Gray Davis with a receding hairline and a mustache' was my line...

Kaus: Is LAT sitting on Arnold dirt?