| It looks we have more confirmation of what we already knew: You have to pay to play with Arnold Schwarzenegger. This from today’s SacBee:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called off a fundraiser scheduled for Monday after his campaign found out about an e-mail in which a participant told potential contributors they would have a chance to talk to the governor about a bill that may come across his desk.
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Allison Neves, executive director of the California Society of Facial Plastic Surgery, sent an e-mail to the society's members inviting them to attend the event, saying it would give them a chance to talk to Schwarzenegger about a bill they oppose.
"This event will provide us with a very important opportunity to discuss our opinions about Senate Bill 438 with the governor," Neves wrote in the e-mail obtained by The Bee. (SacBee 8/12/06)
Poor Arnold had to cancel the event, costing him $500K from this particular special interest. It’s getting harder and harder to find special interests in Sacramento now that Arnold has renamed the ones that he likes as “hard-working Californians”, but I guess you get put on the back of the bus if you get busted trying to buy influence. But don’t worry, Arnold will still take your money…he’ll always take your money. You plastic surgeons are still ahead of the teachers and nurses, those are the special interests who Arnold really had in mind when he said he would go to Sacramento and “terminate the special interests.”
Yup, to Arnold, teachers and nurses are the special interests, multi-millionare plastic surgeons…they are hard working Californians. For more information on a better alternative, see GovernorPhil. |
