What a guy
Bob Morris @ Jul 15th 2005 23:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
Schwarzenegger severs ties with magazines, keeps money
Archive for July 15th, 2005
It doesn’t look good for Karl Rove
Bob Morris @ Jul 15th 2005 12:57 - Category: Unfiled ;
From John Dean, Counsel to the President during Watergate. He told Nixon, “there is a cancer on the presidency.”
Only the special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, and his staff have all the facts on their investigation at this point, but there is increasing evidence that Rove (and others) may have violated one or more federal laws.
As Rove goes down (and he will and richly deserves it too), let’s not lose sight of one important fact. If Kerry was in the White House, things would have gone much the same. A blundering war gone very bad. Lies and deceit to cover it up. Don’t let the partisan attacks fool you. The Democratic leadership wants this war just as much as Bush, and like Bush, would have (and have!) done whatever was needed to continue the war.
Rove testified he learned CIA agent’s name from Novak
Bob Morris @ Jul 15th 2005 10:51 - Category: Unfiled ;
The person [who leaked this] works in the legal profession and spoke only on condition of anonymity because of grand jury secrecy, told The Associated Press that Rove testified last year that he remembers specifically being told by columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame, the wife of a harsh iraq war critic, worked for the CIA.
If it can be proven otherwise, then Rove could get indicted for perjury. And of course, were it actually true, then Rove would have been saying all along he got the info from Novak. But he hasn’t.
Hey Novak, there’s your reward for loyalty. Getting stabbed in the back.
"No special interests" Arnold?
Bob Morris @ Jul 15th 2005 08:40 - Category: Unfiled ;
Gov. Schwarzenegger, who spends inordinate amounts of time bleating about he’s not beholden to special interests, is being paid millions by a special interest, a body building magazine company.
Asked if the governor had any other outside deals, Stutzman said no. “He spends very little time on this,” the spokesman said. “It’s something he would essentially do in his spare time. These are magazines he’s had a relationship with throughout his entire career in bodybuilding and fitness.”
This makes it even more suspect. He gets 8 mil and says he does very little to earn the money. Uh huh. In the real world of politics that would be a very unusual ocurrence indeed.
The agreement holds that Schwarzenegger — referred to as “Mr. S” — must “further the business objectives” of Weider and make himself available to the company outside business hours, to avoid interfering with his job as California governor.
Under the governor’s agreement, he gets a fee based on 1% of the advertising revenue of various health and fitness magazines.
Much of that revenue comes from makers of nutritional supplements, and the governor vetoed legislation last year to impose restrictions on them.
A conflict of interest if there ever was one.
Update: 7/16
Gov. cancels magazine contract
The action comes amid complaints of a conflict of interest. An aide says Schwarzenegger won’t return money already received under the deal.
For a governor, Arnold is politically tone deaf. A more astute politician would have given back the money as a way to defuse criticism.
And he’s gotten himself into yet another mess too.
Schwarzenegger has gotten a special election called for November. One of the ballot initiatives concerns redistricting. Now the State AG is suing to block the measure - and for good reason too.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration knew about legal problems with the proposed redistricting ballot initiative at least a week before the secretary of state’s office was contacted and the matter was publicly disclosed.
[State Attorney General] Lockyer filed a lawsuit last week seeking to disqualify the measure because the document sent to the attorney general’s office to launch the petition drive was not identical to the one used to collect voter signatures.
Lockyer, through a spokesman, blasted the Governor’s Office and leaders of the initiative drive for untimely disclosure.
“If true, these new revelations are very disturbing,” said Tom Dresslar, Lockyer’s spokesman. “It’s particularly disturbing that the proponents and other parties knew about this problem and let the secretary of state certify this measure for the ballot. That’s outrageous.”
