While he's at it he'll show up at a small breakfast Wednesday morning where he is expected to pocket $150,000 for his 2006 re-election campaign kitty.

This despite his repeated insistence that he won't make up his mind about running until sometime next spring.

"I have no idea. I don't even think about it," he told CNN's Larry King.

That, however doesn't appear to have stopped him from getting his prospective re-election campaign in good financial shape.

The governor's chief fund-raiser, Marty Wilson, told the Mercury News that the Texas breakfast fund-raiser for the "Schwarzenegger 2006" account doesn't mean that that the governor's political team is gearing up for a re-election.

He appears to have said this with a straight face, considering that the Mercury News has reported that Schwarzenegger has raised more than $20 million since taking office, with more than $1 million earmarked to pay for political events, travel and – until this month – the $6,000-a-month bill for the governor to bunk at the Hyatt hotel in Sacramento in the absence of a governor's mansion in Sacramento.

As NewsMax.com has reported in Arnold and Maria: Still No Home in Sacramento, the hotel bill is now being picked up by a new private foundation established to pay the tab for the governor's Sacramento digs.

Not surprisingly, Democrats don't accept Schwarzenegger's denial that he hasn't decided if he'll run again.

Bill Carrick, a Democratic consultant, told the Mercury News the out-of-state fund raising is just further evidence that Schwarzenegger is getting ready for a re-election bid.

"My sense of this is he's running – period. I don't care what he says," Carrick said. "His people are all gearing up."

Dallas is an ideal place to raise political campaign contributions, being known for its mix of old money from energy businesses and new money from a growing telecommunications and high-tech industry.

"Business leaders in other states know that for the nation's economy to do well California's economy needs to do well," Wilson told the Mercury News. "Gov. Schwarzenegger certainly has that as his Number One priority."

Despite the money the Dallas contributors are kicking in to the campaign fund, the newspaper noted that not everyone among them is enthralled by Schwarzenegger's moderate political views.

While his economic policies mesh with those of Texas state leaders, he parts ways from them on such social issues such as abortion and gay marriage and has said it would be "fine" with him if voters legalized same-sex marriage, at a time when the Texas Legislature is poised to take up a constitutional ban on gay marriage in its upcoming session.

"He'll be welcomed graciously and go home with some money, but as far as the real Republicans are concerned, he'll be held at some arms length," political scientist Cal Jillson of Southern Methodist University in Dallas told the Mercury News. "They'll leave a check, but it doesn't mean their hearts are necessarily in it."

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