IS SCHWARZENEGGER A CROOK? HAVE YOU EVER MET A REPUBLICAN POL WHO WASN'T?

With voters getting wary and weary of all the corrupt GOP politicians sucking up cash from every source they can find-- and with his own approval rating sinking almost as fast and as low as Bush's-- Arnold Schwarzenegger should be more careful. But one thing I learned about rich people: the richer they get the greedier and more avaricious they become -- and the more convinced of their own invulnerability. From Delay in Texas to the entire GOP government in Ohio (starting with Governor Aft and Secretary of State Blackball and sucking up every single statewide office holder and 5 Supreme Court judges!) to the corrupt governor of Kentucky, the soon-to-be-former San Diego Congressman Randy "Duke the bribe-taker and presidential pardon seller" Cunningham to half a dozen other influence peddling Republican congressmen (INCLUDING "Doc" Hastings of Washington the DeLay handpicked head of the House Ethics Committee, whose sole job is to keep DeLay's ethics from being delved into), investigators are being swamped in the worst sewer American politics has spewed forth since Tea Pot Dome. So is this the time for the approval-deficient Schwarzenegger, already under suspicion from his role in the looting of the Ohio Workmen's Compensation Fund, to be taking blatant bribes from one of the many big business groups he has been taking money from and doing favors for?

Although Schwarzenegger is one of the biggest whores to ever have been elected Governor of California, possibly having plotted with Ken Lay and other Enron executives to steal billions of dollars from California while destroying the reputation of an already corporately-compromised Gray Davis and certainly taking money from every special interest willing to cough it up while doing all in his power to sew confusion among voters as to what a "special interest group" is versus a "public interest group," his lust for cash knows no bounds. According the Doug Heller, the respected executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica, "He has broken his trust to the people by vetoing legislation to protect young people from dangerous supplements without ever telling us that he is earning millions of dollars from these companies."

Last year a bill passed in both the State Assembly and the State Senate that would have required high school athletes to pledge not to use performance-enhancing substances, created a list of banned substances and barred supplement makers from sponsoring school events. Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill. He didn't mention that he rakes off 1% of all the advertising revenues-- much of it from those supplement makers-- from two fitness magazines which pay him a million dollars a year and which depend for their existence on those supplement makers' advertisements. Cozy.