Oh my, Arnie on billboards, bringing people in or keeping them out of CA.

[Kadie]

Hype is on the way
Schwarzenegger sells state's business climate in Las Vegas style
By Gary Delsohn -- Bee Capitol Bureau
Published 2:15 am PDT Thursday, August 5, 2004

LAS VEGAS - Unveiling bright new billboards with his beaming visage and the message that "Arnold says California wants your business," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the city of glitz and hype Wednesday to kick off a national ad campaign singing the state's virtues as a place to make money.

The Republican governor, who griped repeatedly during his run for office that California had become a lousy place to do business, employed some of the same elaborately staged promotional gimmicks he mastered long before coming to Sacramento to trumpet his message that California - with him in charge - gets better every day.

Rising through a haze of theatrical smoke from a sunken stage normally used to produce fashion shows on the famous Las Vegas Strip, Schwarzenegger made a brief speech inside a shopping mall and then led an army of reporters and photographers from what he called one "great photo op" to another.

snip...
"He's a very cool guy. I've seen all his 'Terminator' movies. But he should have stayed in California. There's no way anyone who ever gets a taste of this haven will ever go back to California."


more...
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/california/story/10257302p-11177553c.html

[skippythwndrdog]

1. I don't know about Arnie, but the CA cops keep me away

During a recent trip to CA, I stopped a Chippie t ask for directions. What i got before I could ask my question (for all he knew, I could have wanted to alert him to a crime in progress) was a tongue lashing about my "reckless" actions in flagging down a police officer. We were on a straight, flat rural secondary road with no other cars in sight for at least a mile in either direction, yet he stated that I was stupid for flagging him down in the highway because I might get hit by another vehicle. Not once was I addressed as "Sir", but I was addressed as "Man" three times; twice preceeded by "Oh" as in "Oh, man, don't you know better than to stop in the middle of the road?"

Well gee, Mr. Officer (who was younger than most of my socks), I could see for more than a mile in both directions and there was nothing coming from either direction. I guess he figured the tractor in the filed about a half mile away was going to sprout wings and plow us to death from the sky.

He chewed me out for wasting his time and gave me incorrect directions as well. That was not my first unpleasant experience in CA. I've had my orders (yes plural) questioned at restaurants. So I'm a little overweight. Does that give servers the right to question my choice of entree? I also had the ploice called because I opened an inch and a half blade Swiss Army Knife to cut the plastic tag off of an item I purchased at a so-called sporting goods store in Temecula because I figure to leave the trash in the store's receptacle and use the item immediately - sunglasses. The store manager called the cops claiming that I was brandishing a weapon. I guess I could have used one of the knife's accessories and tweezered someone to death.

I could go on, but you get my point.

Before you start thinking that my personal demeanor has something to do with others perception of me; forget it. I'm one of those guys that still operates according to Emily Post in my daily affairs.

[frylock]

2. what a tool..

:eyes:

[mitchtv]

3. I don't know but he is easier to look at, than

listen to. I heard him talking on this issue on tv, he was completely unintelligible