<p>“(07-14) 14:03 PDT Sacramento (SF Chronicle) – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger faced new questions Thursday about his financial involvement with two body building magazines that promote nutritional supplements after the publications revealed that they will pay him about $8 million over five years for his role as a consultant and executive editor.”</p>
<p>He did this contract two days before he became governor…and then vetoed a bill that would have effected some of the advertisers in those magazines, while he get’s a percentage of advertsing $$ from magazines…</p>
<p>Oh please, this post is right up there with the current commercial featuring a very ernest looking “teacher” claiming that Arnold is “blaming” her for the state of education in our great state.</p>
<p>The Dems must really be getting desperate to go after Arnold on this. </p>
<p>“Financial disclosure statements filed this weekend with the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder by Arnold Schwarzenegger appear to indicate a personal fortune of conservatively $200 million, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times (2003)”</p>
<p>And he’s married to a Kennedy. And he continues to get royalties on this films. Arnold has been associated with these magazines and the Weiders for years. </p>
<p>Let’s revisit Hillary’s financial corruption - "In 1979, Clinton’s trades in cattle futures contracts generated criticism regarding conflict of interest. Her initial $1,000 investment generated $100,000 (a 10,000% return) when she stopped trading ten months later. Chicago Mercantile Exchange records indicated that $40,000 of her profits came from larger trades initiated by Clinton’s lawyer and friend, James Blair, an experienced futures trader and outside counsel to Tyson Foods. According to exchange records, Robert L. “Red” Bone, the commodities broker that facilitated the trades on behalf of Ray E. Friedman and Co. (Refco), reportedly because Blair was a good client, allowed Clinton to maintain her positions even though she did not have enough money in her account to cover her activity. Refco was fined for violating Chicago Mercantile Exchange rules governing margin trading. "</p>
<p>Come on people, you must KNOW this doesn’t look right, not matter who else you bring into, focus on Arnold, but since you can’t seem to do that, well, shows me that you think, </p>
<p>Lets talk about Arnold shall we, or or do you just want to deflect the issue…</p>
<p>So instead of talking about a possible conflict of interest, you decide to talke about Mrs. Clinton from 1979…nice dodge</p>
<p>citygirlsmom, you are not incorrect. He keeps making money.
And? What do you want for Cali? Where should Arnold find the money to right the wrongs afters the Dems have wrecked the state?</p>
<p>And to veto legislation that effected an industry that will provide him with a minimum of $1Million dollars a year seems pretty interesting to me…</p>
<p>Focus on Arnold can you? I guess its okay to be getting a million dollars a year from an industry he veteod legislation on that would have regulated that industry</p>
<p>I get it now…so he can play by his own rules</p>
<p>I’m not shocked by anything Arnold does or says. We somehow elected an Austrian bodybuilder as our governor. Was anyone really expecting him to turn out to be the new John Adams?</p>
<p>One good thing about Arnold’s election: he showed how easy it is in California to throw out a sitting governor.</p>
<p>Soozie, what I want to know is what Arnold and Hillary were doing with the XL bedsheets.</p>
<p>Zagat, the Dems didn’t wreck anything. California is politically dysfunctional due to a combo of Prop 13, the incumbent protection gerrymandering of legislative districts mutually agreed to by both Dems and Reps, a 2/3 requirement to pass budgets that gives the tyranny of the minority and is worse than any other state, and term limits, which has shifted the relative power from the legislature to the lobbyists and the bureaucracy. The Dems get half credit on the mutual gerrymandering.</p>
<p>Reading some of the comments on CC from our Blue State friends, I can only thank G-d that Bush won and that Republicans control the House and the Senate. That Bush will be appointing at least two Supreme Court Justices. That Republicans hold Governorships in CA, NY, FL, and Texas. </p>
<p>Given that this thread was started to bash Arnold, can someone please detail Gray Davis’s independence from the unions, the teachers, and every other special interest group in California?? </p>
<p>Arnold is trying to do his best for everyone in California - given his wealth and fame, does anyone really believe that he will kowtow to special interests?</p>
<p>Well, Arnold came in saying he was going to be different, made a HUGE deal of not accepting a salary, now we know why!!!</p>
<p>ANd he reallly isn’t doing a great job, he wants to do a Texas switcharoo and re-align districts to shift power…what the people want seems to be irrelevant</p>
<p>And, gee he is kowtowing to special interests.</p>
<p>Teachers are special interest groups? My mom is a teacher and she worked like a dog for 30 years…don’t you DARE denigrate teachers, oh yeah and those nurses running amok…</p>
<p>PS He never told the public what he was getting paid, this came out AFTER the magazines reported it to the SEC…</p>
<p>So if there was nothing wrong, why not share info, and after being so out there with not accepting a salary, this just looks bad…be an editor, fine, but to take money from an industry that he makes gubernatorial decisions on, well, gee, that looks straight and honest</p>
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