{"id":817,"date":"2005-07-15T01:07:15","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","slug":"clean_your_shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Clean Your Shoes, Governor!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, I actually think the Governator (California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger) is doing much a better job than he’s often credited for in the media. But he’s stepped<\/a> in something squishy and foul-smelling, and he’d better get his shoes cleaned up before he tracks it into the house.<\/p>\n

Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher of health and bodybuilding magazines.<\/p>\n

\nThe contract pays Schwarzenegger 1% of the magazines’ advertising revenue, much of which comes from makers of nutritional supplements. Last year, the governor vetoed legislation that would have imposed government regulations on the supplement industry.<\/p>\n

\nAccording to records filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Schwarzenegger entered into the agreement with a subsidiary of American Media Inc. on Nov. 15, 2003. The Boca Raton, Fla.-based company publishes Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines, among others.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now it gets worse, because the parent of these magazines, American Media, also published the National Enquirer and other tabloids. <\/p>\n

I remember reading an oped in the LA Times suggesting that the tabloids had deliberately laid off of Arnie because of a business arrangement between him and their publisher <\/a>, and dismissing it as implausible.<\/p>\n

It’s not so implausible now, and the Gov. had better get his shoes cleaned quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal supports Gov. Schwartzenegger…but not what he’s doing as a private citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}