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11/ @murphymike went on to lose the 2010 Whitman race by 18 points and made millions more. After that he made millions more running the most ineffectual SuperPac in American History, JEB! I founded the Lincoln Project. — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ He signed the most meaningful Climate Change Legislation in American history. ( Pavley AB 32) He did that because he didn’t have @murphymike around. I was proud to play a meaningful role in these achievements. — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ He passed some of the most important environmental legislation in American history and imagined the Green future into a governing vision with Susan Kennedy and Terry Tamminen. He passed Globally important legislation with a Democratic Speaker, Fabian Nunez in an election year. — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ @Schwarzenegger went on to start the rebuilding of California with massive infrastructure investments. His bold political reforms around redistricting and open primaries have insulated California from DC’s insanity — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ @Schwarzenegger won that 2006 race by 17 points and went on to become one of the most important reform Governor’s in California History becoming every bit the peer of Hiram Johnson, Pat Brown and Jerry Brown. None of that would have happened if Murphy stayed involved. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ I travelled the state for months promising donors, looking them in the eye that @murphymike would have no involvement whatsoever. He was that toxic. Of course, it didn’t stop him from credit seeking with hundreds of leaks insinuating his involvement — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ This is when I met and started my partnership with @Schwarzenegger Chief of Staff Susan Kennedy. She was a democrat and we started fixing the @murphymike California Love Canal. — PolitiTweet.org

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5. @murphymike attacked every California Union at once in an election that made him rich enough to buy his own plane. When that disaster ended, @mariashriver asked her close friend Tim Russert if he knew of someone capable of cleaning up Murphy’s disaster. She called me. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ The next thing @murphymike did was architect a politically ruinous series of 4 Ballot Initiatives that was a Pickets Charge of stupidity and greed that wrecked his client Schwarzenegger, less than a year from his re-election. It left Schwarzenegger broke and sitting at 29% — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ @murphymike wasn’t done yet. He hung a GIANT portrait photo of him and @Schwarzenegger on the wall. It was the McCain play gone west coast, but Arnold didn’t play that game, at all. Zero tolerance. He was no McCain. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ @murphymike was the Chief Strategist on the 2003 California Recall Election that @Schwarzenegger won. After winning, the first thing Murphy did was go into the ACCESS Business by leasing the most expensive real estate in Sacramento, directly across from the State Capitol Bldng — PolitiTweet.org

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I have never responded to @murphymike before today. He has called me a Hack. Here is my response below. You be the judge. I don’t live in a world where Murphy has stature but I want to tell others about him. Fair enough? Let’s go. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SteveSchmidtSES: After the McCain campaign, I did one more race, and then no politics for 10 years. I didn’t think anything could be cr… — PolitiTweet.org

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15/ Never once, have I ever taken the opportunity to set the record straight with regard to one of the biggest blowhards and churlish charming, irascible funny, self dealing leakers and loser there has ever been. That would be @murphymike. He’s a Governor level guy. I wasn’t. — PolitiTweet.org

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14/ people who Don’t succeed where you ( ME in this case) have,are often resentful and can be toxic in both real life and in the imagination.@murphymike never made it to the Big Show. Not really. He played in the League but not in the inner rooms like me. That pissed him off — PolitiTweet.org

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13/ less while succeeding and winning where @murphymike failed. He’s older than me and was in many places I eventually worked. It was always clean up and Mike didn’t like it when his one playoff win was eclipsed. He’s dug at me for a long time. I’ve always let it go because — PolitiTweet.org

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12/ Mike had his own plane and was pimping it like Richard Gere in “POWER”. After all this, @murphymike went on to make many more millions running the most ineffectual SUPER PAC - EVER. JEB ! JEB! JEB! Mike made millions while failing in all of these things. I made much — PolitiTweet.org

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11/ that didn’t stop a hundred little leaks and suggestions,from you, that your indispensable advice was what was really righting the ship. @murphymike ran another California Governors race in 2010 for Meg Whitman and made millions by losing by 18 points. This was the era when — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ would have happened if you stayed. I spent the first months of the 2006 @Schwarzenegger comeback traveling the state tirelessly looking every donor in the eye 👁 and shaking their hand with a promise that you would have no involvement whatsoever, which you didn’t. Of course — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ was one of the most important pieces of environmental legislation passed in American history. It is the most significant Climate Change legislation that has yet been passed in the United States. I played a meaningful role making that happen. You didn’t. In fact it never — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ Terry Tamminen. Once the grifting lobbyist crew was out ( YOU ) - Davis= cousins at least) @Schwarzenegger began an epic season of LEGISLATING AND GOVERNING in a BI PARTISAN fashion with ASSEMBLY SPEAKER FABIAN NUNEZ. They passed with Fran Parley, the Bills author,AB 32 which — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ He became the peer of Hiram Johnson and Pat and Jerry Brown. He rebuilt California’s infrastructure and profoundly reformed its politics with redistricting reform and the passage of an Open Primary initiative. @Schwarzenegger imagined the Green Energy future with people like — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ Susan Kennedy who became Chief of Staff. During this period the Governor @Schwarzenegger was re-elected by 17 points in one of the biggest landslides and biggest comebacks in California history. Arnold went on to become one of the most important Reform Governors in Ca. Hist. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ She called her friend Tim Russert and asked if he knew of any Republicans who could clean up your shit show. He said he did. It was me @murphymike. The campaign was broke and dead. It was a disaster. Your disaster. I was very lucky to get to work with a woman named — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ @Schwarzenegger re-election was a year away and he appeared done because of the greed and incompetence of @murphymike who had wrecked him.That is tough to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger. You embarrassed him ethically and politically. This is when @mariashriver found me. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ it staggers the imagination. @Schwarzenegger had just won a SPECIAL RECALL ELECTION. That was the election. Get it. The people (voters) didn’t want another one. They rejected the four ballot measure campaigns Murphy ran and made MILLIONS on. Arnold dropped to a 29% approval. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ lobby. The chief strategist stabbed his candidate in the back by doing the sleazy shit that the candidate, @arnold had pledged to run against. The next thing that @mikemurphy did was plot a ruinous ballot measure campaign that was so deeply stupid as a strategic premise that — PolitiTweet.org

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When @mikemurphy ran @Schwarzenegger campaign in the recall election he won the campaign. What did he do next? He got the most expensive real estate across from the California Capitol and went into the ACCESS business. He put a giant picture of himself with the Governor in the — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ that is paralyzing American politics. @mattklewis is like a Cheri Jacobus of the Palin Truther movement. He’s a little bit grifter and a lot obsessive. He has been on this beat for 14 years of uninterrupted dumb. I’m happy I had a chance to respond. Ire Matt! Be Well. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ What has Matt Lewis ever accomplished? What has he done? He has made a career of embracing Weirdoism as an ideology, philosophy and cash money geyser. He is a lot more Alex Jones than anything else. They are all vegetables in the same crusty, stinky stew of nasty and stupid — PolitiTweet.org