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Rival to Schwarzenegger Sidesteps Key Question in California Race.

By Dawn C. Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 22--LOS ANGELES--At a campaign event where he signed a "no new taxes" pledge, Republican businessman Bill Simon Thursday was dogged by ...uestions about whether he'll stay in the race.

Simon, who lost to unpopular incumbent Gov. Gray Davis in last November's general election, was asked repeatedly by reporters whether he is under pressure to withdraw to make way for the party's current front-runner, moderate Arnold Schwarzenegger, or whether he felt he was pla

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