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Questioning Arnold's Convention
Remarks & Behavior
From Evan Augustine Peterson
III, September 4, 2004
To: governor@governor.ca.gov
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger:
Please know that I'm one among many Californians who are deeply disappointed
in your increasingly-boorish gubernatorial misbehavior, which at best
lacks ethical integrity, and at worst cannot stand the light of further
public scrutiny without seriously tarnishing California's reputation.
I will offer you two illustrative examples.
First, you've already betrayed the trust of your California constituents
by breaking your much-ballyhooed pre-election promise: namely, that you'd
never accept what are, in your own words, essentially bribes from moneyed
special interests. Then, as soon as you were elected, you proved that
you were only lying to us by: (1) promptly accepting large "donations"
from Chevron, among other corporations, thus making yourself politically
beholden to the moneyed special interests; and (2) even worse, accepting
$350,000 from corporate donors merely to attend the Republican National
Convention in NYC!
Governor, do you mistake us for naively-inattentive toddlers? Did you
really think the citizens of California wouldn't notice this fraudulent
betrayal of your sacred public pledge, which was merely an expediently
made pretext to propel yourself into a political office that you never
could have earned through the normal electoral process? Sadly, you've
already become a corrupt special-interest slot-machine: "Just slide
those dollars into The Governator, then wait for whatever legislation
you want!"
Second, your polarizing speech at the Republican Convention was filled
with unnecessary inflammatory comments, such as: (A) your irresponsible
remark which denigrated the United Nations; and (B) your embarrassing
reiterations of silly Hollywood lines like "economic girlie-men."
Concerning the latter, inquiring minds everywhere still want to know exactly
what that thoughtlessly puerile utterance is supposed to mean: if a man
loses his job due to corporate outsourcing, is he then rendered a "girlie-man"
within your troglodytic mind? Finally, your speech's biographical comments
crossed over the line by undiplomatically maligning your country of origin
with gross historical falsehoods (link by clicking here): Austrian
Scholars Question Arnold's Homeland Remarks.
Governor, these xenophobic expressions of ultranationalism do not establish
you as a patriot, but rather expose you as a diplomatic dunce who's clearly
not ready for primetime. Did you think you could just self-servingly declare
yourself to be the über-immigrant-who's-made-good, wrap yourself
in the flag, wave the bloody shirt of 9/11, then falsely implicate Iraq
in 9/11, and that we "simpletonians" wouldn't notice that you're
irresponsibly engaging in divisive acts of demagogic salesmanship, rather
than in unitive acts of gubernatorial statesmanship?
Sir, a growing number of California's loyal citizens fear that you're
well out of your depth, not only due to your lack of political experience,
but also due to your glaringly-obvious intellectual and emotional immaturity.
Therefore, unless both your hamfisted-palooka demagoguery and your integrity-negating
unethical behavior undergo drastic modifications forthwith and posthaste,
please be advised that a well-financed statewide gubernatorial recall
effort will commence against you shortly, through which your entirely-undeserved
brief reign of errors will be brought to a screeching halt. As in: "All
those who live by the recall shall perish by the recall!"
Quite Sincerely,
Mr. Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.
Loyal Citizen Of The Great State Of California
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