Listen to Arnold tell La Raza how nig Sugar Ray Robinson cut a free check for $2,500 to him in the early 70's when Arnold was broke "without even asking if I was here legally." I remember Arnold hitting USA in Playboy mag at least in 1969 if not 1968. He had to beg to nog Robinson after his dual careers had begun in the states?

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...And La Raza has been doing a terrific job for the last 40 years...

...one thing I can tell you, that it is great to speak to the Latino community and to all of you, because the Latinos gave me 50 percent of all the votes when I was running for governor in the recall. (Applause)

But it was great just to walk around today at this convention hall and to see all the great displays, and to see the great booths on health care, on food and beverages, insurance, automotive, military, travel, and entertainment, and to see all those great companies, from General Motors, Ford, UPS, ConAgra and Goya Foods, Disneyland, Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, and the list goes on and on and on. So I want to say thank you to all of those companies for being here today and supporting the Latino community. I want to say thank you very much to all of them. And one thing that I loved—-you can give them a big hand, it’s great to have them here. (Applause)

And one thing that I loved about the displays was the hands-on health van. What a great idea, to have vans like that to take health care to the children, to the local communities, that travel all around the state and provide and help kids with their health care issues. I think it’s a fantastic idea. I think that—I did a movie one time about cloning. I think we should clone this van and have it all over the country. What a great service that is, so congratulations on that.

Now, your work also promotes Latino businesses and families. And your advocacy in civil rights issues is really fantastic, because it talks about inclusion, about tolerance, and also fighting prejudice. And I like also your effort that you make, your outreach, on health care and employment. It’s all about helping people be able to have a better life. And I also want to congratulate you on your almost 40 years of services and creating nearly 300 La Raza affiliates all over the country here with the sole mission of improving opportunities for individuals and for families. You’re basically helping people realize their dream. This is what this is all about, because every person has a dream, and every person ought to be helped in order to make that dream become a reality.

...I’ll just tell you a brief example. I remember when the famous musician Bono from the U2s came to me several years ago and says, “Arnold, can you help me? Can you help me, because I want to do something for debt forgiveness for the Third World countries, and I want to go and get some help from you?” And I said to him, I said, “Bono, don’t make the mistake to just go to Democrats when you go to Washington.” I said, “Go to the Republicans.” I said, “I will set it up for you.” And I connected him, after he said, “Okay, I will do that,” I connected him with Congressman Kasich from Ohio. And Congressman Kasich in Ohio, he received him in Washington and took him around to all the Republicans, Congress and Senators.

And one of the guys that he took him to was Senator Jesse Helms. Now, they had nothing in common, Bono and Jesse Helms, my I remind you, other than that Jesse Helm’s grandchildren loved Bono’s music. That was it. Everything else they didn’t have in common. But what happened was, because he reached out to him, in the end when he couldn’t get everything done that he wanted to get done from the Bush Administration, he called Jesse Helms. He called the Senator and said, “I need your help.” And Jesse Helms called the White House and he said, “If you don’t give him the money that he wants for the debt forgiveness and for AIDS, to help the AIDS children in Africa, I will not sign your bill.” And all of a sudden that money came through and became a reality.

...Thank you very much. Thank you, and I’ll be back. Hasta la vista. Thank you.