Well, it turns out our Governator is deeply engaged in the standard conflicts of interest we’ve come to expect of our leaders.  On March 6th 2004, less than 4 months after his swearing in as Governor of one of the largest economies on the planet, Arnold signed a 5-year contract giving him a whopping 1% of ad sales (minimum $1 million) for a monthly column and a position as "Executive Editor" which I assume is double-speak for "allow his name to be used".

Maybe I’m backward, but I have an expectation that a $1,000,000/year job might take a bit of time to fulfill. But it turns out Arnold was so capable of saving the state, that he was able to do it with one hand while penning columns with the other.  Columns so brilliant each was worth more (possibly much more) than $80,000!  Who knew the man was such a brilliant writer?

Clearly the supplement industry understands the value of the written word, when he earned them millions of dollars of sales of probably unsafe supplements to high-schoolers by penning the lucrative word "veto" on the legislation designed to protect those kids.

I’m just amazed he didn’t see that this would be a problem.  Perhaps steroid use affects the brain more than we think.

Sigh.  At least California hasn’t invaded any foreign countries yet (Seattleites perceptions notwithstanding).  But Bush started out small too.