Mr. Austrian Beefcake is seeling Stones tickets

[Pinko]

Superstar California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wil be seeking to cash in on a Rolling Stones concert later this month, the governor's office confirmed Thursday.

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[HeeBGBz]

1. Look out, Mick!

The Terminator wants to be your sweet Neocon!

[Fridays Child]

2. And, if the winner is female, the sexual harassment is free.

But, even if she encouraged him, Arnold would still be the bigger whore.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Reduced...

To ticket scalping. How unseemly.

[USA_1]

4. Scandals

With all of the scandals that ArNUT SchwASSenegger is involved in, will there be recall movement as there was when a Democrat was in the governor's office?

[Divernan]

5. Ahnuld aims to raise $50 mil for his "political war chest"

But what might the Gropinator spend all this cash on?
Does he have higher political aspirations, like being on the national ticket, or buying an ambassadorship?

The article says Ahnuld's aid confirmed A plans to raise 50 million dollars for "his political war chest", and that the money will be used to back referendums in an election next November to back "reform propositions".

But here's the deal regarding "political war chests". These are an individual's campaign funds. The monies attach to the individual, not the office. When an individual leaves office, he or she keeps control of any unspent money remaining in that fund. Officially, the money has some strings on how it can be spent., but those strings are pretty long and stretchy. For example, $$ cannot be spent on plain old luxury vacations. But, if a trip is designated to "study" or "investigate" some issue which has any political significance, a retired politician can jaunt anywhere and stay in the most luxurious accomodations and pay out of this fund.
An individual can also donate any portion of this fund to another politician for use in THEIR campaign. This allows politicians to buy/bribe each other. At the state House level, someone who wants to run for leadership within their caucus, buys votes of support from other members with contributions from his campaign fund to the others' campaign funds.


At the national level, after Tom Ridge was elected governor of Pennsylvania, and began auctioning off the state's resources to the highest bidders (for example, he gutted the workers' comp program at the behest of many large employers/insurers; and PA. became the deposit for more out of state garbage than any other state in the Union - can you say Waste Management/mob connections?)he amassed a "war chest" of enough millions of $$$, to reasonably expect to win the Republican presidential nomination. Unfortunately for him, and the rest of the world, W amassed many hundreds of more millions and could vastly outspend Ridge to buy support from the GOP. If Arnold can raise $50 mill from the public, and then get much more in private contributions, he could be a contender for say the VP slot on the next ticket. Or even the top slot - we know he's interested in that, and there has been talk about changing the law so he could run.

At the international level, you all pretty much know that the top tier of ambassadorships - at all but the third world country - are rewards given by presidents to big donors. Maybe Arnold plans to buy the German ambassadorship from the next president, if the GOP stayed in power.
So you see there are many ways this money could be spent. But I've never heard of a sitting governor auctioning himself off to the public like this. Until now, it's always been done in private.