SHAME ON THE GOVERNOR?

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arnold5jul05,0,5054369.story?coll=la-home-center

 

The article cited above from the Los Angeles Times reports that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger travels by private jet and stays in luxury hotels on his many trips on behalf of the citizens of California.  The point of the story is to report that this travel is billed to a private non profit group.  The article suggests that the Governor may be abusing use of this tax exempt group and we, as taxpayers of California, are somehow being abused by the tax exempt dollars that are going into the Governor's travel.

 

I am sorry but I fail to see how the people of California can be suffering from this so called "charity" particularly when one considers that the Governor serves without pay and at his own expense.  If we Californians are going to adopt such a narrow view, it seems to me that it is time we really looked at the over paid, over spent and over empowered legislators and California State employment dollars that we spend for plain unadulterated  incompetence.

Near the end of the article (page 2 of the on line report)  the Governor's service without pay is acknowledged, "Schwarzenegger declines to take his state salary, and he does give to charities. From 2002 through 2004, for example, he reported $2.5 million in charitable donations and about $55 million in total income. Also included is another dig at the Governor's willingness to take advantage of the "people of California, "The governor's other charitable activities include his sponsorship of nonprofits that provide recreation programs for children."

 

And our politicians to the "left" wonder why talk radio succeeds?  It succeeds because "fairness in media" does not exist and talk radio is the only source for people to actually have an opportunity to speak out. Talk radio achieves what no amount of governmental "fairness" could hope to achieve.