Bustamante Death Threats, Etc

California's Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and I share history. We both finished behind Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger [1] in the 2003 Recall Gray Davis election [2].

But since then, Bustamante has been all but invisible. No one has any idea what he does all day long. Insiders swear he is running for state insurance commissioner.
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Yesterday, in a press conference, Schwarzenegger denounced death threats [4] alledgedly made against Bustamante and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

I listened to the conference live and heard this interesting exchange:

Reporter: "Governor, how is Bustamante holding up in light of these threats?"

Schwarzenegger: "You know, I don't know."

Apparently, even Bustamante's boss has no interest in how his number two man spends his day. If Schwarzenegger didn't bother to ask after Bustamante, how much could he care about him?