—7:30 am: Governor Howard Dean has breakfast with the Queen City Rotary Club, Manchester, N.H.
—9:00 am: State Sen. Tom McClintock does radio interview with the Rogers and Morgan Show on San Francisco KSFO
—9:30 am: Arianna Huffington appears on Telemundo's Buenos Dias
—9:30 am: Senator John Edwards discusses preparedness and security with police officers, Rochester, N.H.
—10:00 am: Governor Dean holds a press conference on the environment, Nashua, N.H.
—10:15 am: Tom McClintock does television interview with San Francisco KRON.
—10:30 am: President Bush departs for West Coast trip, Waco, Texas.
—11:00 am: Tom McClintock does radio interview with Ken and Co. Show.
—12:00 pm: Bill Simon holds an event to promote his tax pledge, Fresno.
—12:00 pm: Senator Bob Graham holds an economic roundtable with African-American leaders, Florence, S.C.
—1:00 pm: Governor Gray Davis and Senator Dianne Feinstein attend an event to support reauthorizing the assault weapons ban, Los Angeles.
—1:30 pm: Peter Camejo appears on the Bill Rosendahl Show on So. Cal Adelphia Cable.
—3:00 pm: Peter Ueberroth holds a press availability outside the San Jose Mercury News.
—3:10 pm: President Bush makes remarks at Bush-Cheney 2004 fundraiser, Portland, Ore. Open press.
—5:00 pm: Governor Davis addresses the California Black Chamber of Commerce, Milbrae.
—5:00 pm: Senator Graham holds an economic roundtable meeting, Kingstree, S.C.
—6:00 pm: Bill Simon holds a campaign event, Los Angeles.
—6:30 pm: Senator Edwards discusses preparedness and security with firefighters, Salem, N.H.
—6:40 pm: President Bush makes remarks on his health forest initiative, Bend, Ore.
—7:00 pm: Senator Edwards holds a town hall meeting, Salem, N.H.
—10:00 pm: Peter Camejo meets with peace activists, Long Beach.
—11:00 pm: Congressman Dennis Kucinich appears on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
—1:00 am: Peter Camejo does television interview with Los Angeles KTTV.

NEWS SUMMARY

Arnold Schwarzenegger has no public events scheduled for today. He will hold private meetings with members of his economic advisery team and also receive additional policy briefings, according to his campaign.

Governor Gray Davis will join Senator Dianne Feinstein and dozens of law enforcement leaders at the Parker Center (LAPD headquarters) this morning at an event to support the reauthorization of the 1994 federal assault weapons ban. It begins at 1:00 pm ET.

Later today, Davis will deliver remarks to the California Black Chamber of Commerce in which he will "reiterate his opposition to Proposition 54 and renew his commitment to reforming California's workers' compensation system." He will speak at the Westin in Milbrae at 5:00 pm ET.

Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante has no public events announced for today.

State Senator Tom McClintock does two radio interviews and one television interview today.

Peter Ueberroth as a private meeting with the San Jose Mercury News and then holds a press availability immediately following the meeting at 3:00 pm ET.

Bill Simon holds an event to promote his tax pledge in Fresno at 12:00 pm ET. He has another event scheduled for 6:00 pm ET in Los Angeles, though no details have been given on that yet.

Arianna Huffington appears on Telemundo's Buenos Dias this morning at 9:30 am ET.

Green Party candidate Peter Camejo does a pair of television interviews today and hold meeting with peace activists tonight in Long Beach.

President Bush heads to Portland, Oregon, today for a Bush-Cheney 2004 lunchtime fundraiser at the University of Portland's Chiles Center. He will then go to Bend, Oregon, to attend a fire briefing and make remarks on his healthy forest initiative at the Deschutes County Fair and Expo Grounds. He will spend the night at the Sunriver Resort tonight in … uh … Sunriver, Oregon.

Senator Edwards campaigns in New Hampshire today. His itinerary for the day: breakfast in Somersworth, a meeting with Rochester police to discuss security, lunch in Durham, a press conference on homeland security at a site to be determined, dinner in Hampton, a meeting with Salem firefighters to discuss preparedness, and a town hall meeting in Salem.

Senator Graham campaigns in South Carolina today. He will hold an economic roundtable with African-American leaders in Florence this afternoon and another one in Kingstree tonight. He'll also do a radio interview with the "Urban Scene" program.

Governor Dean campaigns in New Hampshire today with all of his public events in the morning. He'll have breakfast with the Queen City Rotary Club in Manchester. Later, he'll hold a press conference to discuss the environment. He'll tour downtown Nashua and its City Hall. Then, he'll have lunch in Derry with local activists.

Congressman Kucinich appears on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight on Comedy Central.

Reverend Sharpton campaigns in South Carolina today, but specific public plans have not been announced.

Congressman Gephardt has no announced public events for today. Chrissy Gephardt addresses a women's activist group in Nashville, Tennessee, tonight.

Ambassador Braun, Senator Lieberman and Senator Kerry have no public events scheduled for today.

Today in the recall:

--Governor Gray Davis will join Senator Dianne Feinstein and law enforcement leaders to talk about banning assault weapons. Later he meets with the California Black Chamber of Commerce to re-state his opposition to Proposition 54.

--Former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth continues his media roundtables with the San Jose Mercury News.

--An appeal to yesterday's decision not to postpone the recall is expected to be filed soon with the 9th Circuit.

--After addressing the press and meeting yesterday with his economic advisers, Arnold Schwarzenegger stays off the public radar screen today.

The rest of the political world, in other news:

1. USA Today 's Jim Drinkard writes about just how the "GOP has built a better than 2-to-1 advantage" in fundraising over Democrats under the new campaign finance laws. Read it please. Twice. LINK

2. Glen Johnson of the Boston Globe analyzes the Democratic candidates' strategy on criticizing Bush's foreign policy decisions. LINK

Johnson writes, "When it comes to criticizing the commander-in-chief, said Jim Jordan, Kerry's campaign manager, 'tone, modulation, and appropriateness matter an awful lot. The public reacts very badly to the perception of playing politics with foreign policy.'"

3. The AP's Brad Cain previews the president's visit and fundraiser in Oregon today. LINK And the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Robert McClure writes, "As President Bush arrives today in the Pacific Northwest to burnish his record as a friend of trees and fish, documents show that an important part of his environmental policy is being directed by the timber industry." LINK

4. The AP's Leigh Strope loves conference calls, and she reports on what is probably one of her favorites from yesterday, during which Congressman Gephardt picked up his twelfth union endorsement, this one from the 300,000 member Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers union. LINK

"'Our strategy is to either win an AFL-CIO endorsement, which is admittedly a long shot,' said Gephardt campaign manager Steve Murphy. 'Or, get the process concluded relatively early so that we can … get our labor support into play in the early states.'"

5. The Boston Herald reports that John Kerry "next month plans a fund-raising blitz of 25 events nationwide to coincide with his formal campaign kickoff." LINK

"Kerry (D-Mass.) is organizing several large-scale events of 800 or more donors to be held after he formally announces his 2004 White House bid with a four-day trip to key primary states beginning Labor Day."

Not to be outdone, John Wagner of the Raleigh News & Observer reports, "John Edwards vowed Wednesday that he would hold at least 100 town-hall-style meetings with New Hampshire voters before the state's pivotal presidential primary in January." LINK

Please also read:

--The Associated Press reports on the brand new "Fair and Balanced" PAC's launch of this Web site: www.bushrecall.org. LINK

[Note Note to Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Ailes, we're just reporting what the AP reported. We're not using the magic words ourselves.]

--The Associated Press has the details on the fourth of seven planned DNC debates. This one will be at Pace University in New York. LINK

--The New York Post 's Deborah Gregorian reports that Al Sharpton "stiffed a Manhattan travel agency out of almost $200,000 after giving them 'fraudulent credit-card information,' the agency says in a lawsuit." LINK

--Somebody call Jano! David Lightman writes in the Hartford Courant about … Dennis Kucinich? Lightman reports that Kucinich is in "the twilight zone" of candidates between the "top tier" and the "fringe" candidates. LINK

--For all of you presidential campaigners thinking about offering up some sort of health care plan, the Financial Times' Christopher Bowe reports, "Switching to a government- funded health system like Canada's would save the US $200bn a year by cutting administrative costs, enough to pay for all 41m uninsured Americans, according to two new studies." LINK

California recall, Arnold:

After clamoring for Arnold Schwarzenegger to answer questions from the political press since his announcement that he's running for governor of California, journalists got their wish yesterday when the actor held a press conference after a summit meeting with his economic advisers.

The Los Angeles Times' Michael Finnegan looks at Schwarzenegger's plan — cap spending, though sparing education programs from cuts; commission a 60-day audit of the state's finances; enact energy reforms; call a special session of the legislature; and study restructuring the state's debt. LINK

Finnegan also Notes Schwarzenegger's "never say never" comments about raising taxes, the candidate's mention that he's leaning toward not supporting Proposition 54, and Governor Davis' reaction to the plan.

The New York Times ' LeDuff and Broder cover Schwarzenegger's speech Noting the focus on business and attempt to look more like a serious candidate in the race. LINK

"His outlook today was decidedly pro-business. Among the 18 members of his Economic Recovery Council, whom he met with this morning, were titans of business and finance and economics professors. There were no union representatives or consumer advocates."

We also approve of their use of the word "hullabaloo" in a sentence. It came up in reference to the flap Warren Buffett prompted over Proposition 13 last week.

USA Today 's Martin Kasindorf reports that Schwarzenegger offered some specifics and that the "news conference inevitably reflected Schwarzenegger's show-biz background." LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Thomas S. Mulligan and Jerry Hirsch take a closer look at Schwarzenegger's economic kitchen cabinet. LINK

Here's a list of those advisers. LINK

The San Jose Mercury News' Laura Kurtzman and Ann E. Marimow compare the contenders' economic plans and how they're playing with officials in the state. LINK

" … each would require higher taxes or deeper spending cuts than state legislators on both sides of the aisle so far have been willing to accept. And each plan contains savings that experts find fanciful."

Reacting to the speech, Governor Davis said Schwarzenegger should have offered more specifics. And many in the press agreed with him.

The San Francisco Chronicle's Carla Marinucci writes that Schwarzenegger was "light on details" in outlining his economic plan. There are some great Don Sipple comments in this story. LINK

As do the Washington Post 's William Booth and Rene Sanchez. LINK

The San Jose Mercury News' Mary Anne Ostrom also beats the "Schwarzenegger-sounded-good-but-offered-no-specifics" drum. LINK

The Boston Globe 's Yvonne Abraham says he did not provide the policy details that would have contradicted opponents' claims that he is "long on publicity and short on specifics." LINK

The New York Daily News's Helen Kennedy also Notes an absence of specifics. LINK

California recall, the Governor:

The San Francisco Chronicle's Robert Salladay writes about the first of Davis' "Conversations with Californians," in which the governor "is layering on another strategy that is far more personal and a lot more angry." LINK

"Davis may be reaching for some sort of catharsis with voters in which they come to understand his anger about the Republican attempt to unseat him and he accepts their anger about his job performance. He faces deep, almost visceral hostility from a wide range of voters, including a large chunk from his own party."

"The attempt to connect with individual voters may simply be just another tactic as many Democrats abandon him and the media begins focusing more and more attention to the field of replacement candidates. Political analysts, while not making predictions about the race, are pessimistic about his position with just seven weeks left before the election."

Salladay Notes that the structured town-hall settings of the meetings is a tactic well employed by President Clinton.

The AP's Tom Chorneau looks further at that Clinton inspiration. LINK

And Clinton alumni are on the scene in the efforts against the recall. Former White House spokeswoman Ann Lewis has been summoned to California to manage the recall communications shop by DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, AP's Erica Werner reports. LINK

ABC News' Apton reports that according to Davis press secretary Steve Maviglio, the Davis folks did a music change-up for the rope line after last night's appearance. Instead of Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," Davis mingled with the crowd to the strains of James Brown's "I've Got a Good Thing, And I Ain't Gonna Give It Up."

The San Francisco Chronicle's Edward Epstein reports that Senator Feinstein thinks the recall process is "deeply flawed" and "might consider a ballot campaign to persuade voters to alter the state Constitution's recall provisions adopted in 1911." LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Megan Garvey looks at the "fevered efforts" of California labor, which is feeling the pressure to turn out the vote against the recall and for Davis. LINK

The Los Angeles Times' Dan Morain and Jenifer Warren on the competition for Democratic dollars between Governor Davis and Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante: LINK

California First Lady Sharon Davis is getting in on the blogging game, according to the Los Angeles Times' Recall Notebook. LINK

California recall, the chaos and the courts:

The Los Angeles Times' Allison Hoffman, Joel Rubin and Jean Guccione look at yesterday's court action to keep the recall schedule on track, and look ahead to the next decision, expected August 29, over the four counties that need preclearance to consolidate their voting precincts. LINK

The Wall Street Journal 's Jeanne Cummings looks at California's campaign finance laws that cap spending in political campaigns — and don't apply to the recall election. Experts have estimated that more than $75 million will be spent in this race, she reports, and could affect the presidential campaign.

The San Diego Union Tribune's Alex Roth reports that in the last two weeks San Diego "county officials have received more than 11,600 voter-registration forms, about 20 percent more than for the same time frame before last November's gubernatorial election." LINK

California recall, the rest of the field:

A new poll shows that a third of California voters likely to cast ballots in the recall have not decided which candidate they'd support, the San Jose Mercury News' Linda Goldston reports. LINK

The Chronicle's Mark Simon reports that Rescue California "will attempt to link the lieutenant governor to the policies and issue positions recall advocates say have led to the governor's unpopularity." LINK

The AP's Laura Wides reports on Ueberroth's formal announcement where he said "he would cut state spending across the board by 5 percent as part of an $11 billion package of cuts and revenue enhancements." He also said he will hold a series of town hall meetings around the state in coming weeks to discuss his plans. LINK