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Throwing Down the Paddle

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to a challenge from a potential campaign donor. The donor, an 80-year-old Sacramento man, said he would donate to ...

pingpong-2.jpg California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to a challenge from a potential campaign donor. The donor, an 80-year-old Sacramento man, said he would donate to Arnold's campaign -- but only if the governor would play him in a match of table tennis.  (The octogenarian is a ping-pong champ.)

Arnold accepted the challenge, but a date for the Table Tennis Campaign Finance Deathmatch (our words, not theirs) has yet to be set.

Check back next week, when Arnold agrees to a game of badminton with a 90-year-old Oxnard woman.

Zach Patton -- Executive Editor. Zach joined GOVERNING as a staff writer in 2004. He received the 2011 Jesse H. Neal Award for Outstanding Journalism
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