# Governor Schwarzenegger!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303 "2003-12-06T03:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/1 "2003-12-06T03:03:00Z")
I have to admit the whole California Governor’s race thing really didn’t seem real to me until I stumbled across the California Government’s web page and there he is, the _Governor_! Maybe it’s just me, but it’s \*really weird \* looking at it. It’s real! It’s fake! It’s two dissonant concepts in one! It’s like I’m looking at a movie poster that’s real. I don’t really know how to describe the impression. It’s just odd, _really_ odd. It’s a double, double take. Take a look! [Arnold Schwarzenegger, The People’s Governor](http://www.governor.ca.gov/state/govsite/gov_homepage.jsp) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/2 "2003-12-06T03:08:22Z")
That’s so wrong. Everyone knows the The Rock will be the People’s Governor. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/3 "2003-12-06T03:24:20Z")
CAN YOU _SMELLLLLLLL_ WHAT THE ROCK IS LEGISLATING?! ---
**Author:** ![\_possum\_stalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b77776/32.png) [@\_possum\_stalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_possum_stalker)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/4 "2003-12-06T03:37:08Z")
Did Arnie eat a fistful of Valium before they took that picture? ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/5 "2003-12-06T03:44:50Z")
Scroll down a bit…look to the right. “Other resources, First Lady Maria Shriver”. Yep, just keeps getting weirder & weirder. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/6 "2003-12-06T04:38:07Z")
Did anybody else read his intro in the classic Arnie voice…? Anybody? /crawls back under geek rock… ---
**Author:** ![Siegfried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Siegfried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siegfried)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/7 "2003-12-06T04:42:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fugazi \* > \*\*Scroll down a bit…look to the right. “Other resources, First Lady Maria Shriver”. Yep, just keeps getting weirder & weirder. \*\* Very last thing under “Other Options”? The “Car Tax Rate Calculator.” Betcha that one’s not going to be there much longer if Governor Schwarzenegger gets his way. On the plus side of this whole thing, at least I’ve finally arsed myself to learn how to spell “Schwarzenegger” correctly. Now if I could only manage to pronounce it without tripping over my tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/8 "2003-12-06T04:44:03Z")
I was going to post exactly that! I kept cracking up! Hello, my name is Ahhnold, your friendly actor turned guv’nor. I looks like he had gotten lucky some 30 min before they took that picture. ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/9 "2003-12-06T04:49:38Z")
By exactly that i meant emperor penguin’s post ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/10 "2003-12-06T04:50:32Z")
I was absolutely floored when he won (I thought he would get a couple of thousand votes at best), I knew some folks that lived in San Diego and when the “governator” won they moved to North Carolina! unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/11 "2003-12-06T05:36:04Z")
Indeed, with Herr Gropenfuehrer in office one wonders just who will be the next Man in the High Office. Montana has in Judy Martz a moron who needs to be replaced, and I think we should shop around for famous actors. Hell, enough of them vacation here anyway, we might as well rope them into the political system. Here’s a few options I have in mind: [ul] [li]Jack Nicholson: Spooky psychopath taking a baseball bat to partisan politics and smashing the windshield of the establishment![/li][li]Ted Nugent: Hell, this is what the rest of the world thinks we’re like anyway. He’ll get all of Montana’s gun laws repealed and we’ll hunt wild game on the streets of the major cities.[/li][li]Joey Ramone: Missouri can elect a dead guy, so can we. We can set Ashcroft up as a candidate so he can, once again, be judged less competent than a corpse.[/li][li]Sylvester Stallone: If we can’t understand him, does that mean we get to ignore him?[/li][li]Ronald Reagan: Only if he makes the state of the state addresses himself, unaided. “My fellow Americans, we should all kill the damned Commies! Bomb! Bomb! Mr. Gorbachev, tear the motherfuckers down!”[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/12 "2003-12-06T07:53:48Z")
**unclviny** wrote > [@](#): > > I knew some folks that lived in San Diego and when the “governator” won they moved to North Carolina! Good riddence. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/13 "2003-12-06T15:07:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\* > Sylvester Stallone: If we can’t understand him, does that mean we get to ignore him? Let’s see how it works out with Callyfornya’s governor first. If they can ignore him with no real problems, I say go for it! ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/14 "2003-12-06T17:14:30Z")
This does seem surreal. But at least one friend is happy about saving $300 in car tag renewal fees. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/15 "2003-12-06T18:37:19Z")
So far, he’s not doing a bad job. To bad nobody will notice that under all the partisan crap. He repealed the car tax the day he was swore in, and later that week the head of the DMV “resigned” over it, since the man had decided to play a little power game. He lost, the citizens of Calli win. Good on the gov. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/16 "2003-12-06T18:39:49Z")
Yeah, except now you don’t have any money. When the government can’t provide basic services because of the gigantic deficit, ask yourself then if the citizens have won. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/17 "2003-12-06T20:42:54Z")
Hey, you’re talking about my boss darnit ( in a convoluted sort of way) Okay, I stook up for him, carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/18 "2003-12-06T23:42:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*Yeah, except now you don’t have any money. When the government can’t provide basic services because of the gigantic deficit, ask yourself then if the citizens have won. \*\* For what it’s worth, the California government barely filled that niche before. And we didn’t have any money before either. This government has been deficiet spending for something like 10 years now, and it’s finally catching up. I wonder if Arnie will have the House and Senate arrested after they fail to sign a budget on time, as mandated by our law? That would be great, and guarantee him votes next time. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/19 "2003-12-07T02:14:32Z")
The thing is, I believe a lot of folks were voting for the Not Davis candidate, that for whatever their reason, people just wanted someone new. Whoever got the job was going to be at a disadvantage anyway; it’s not as if they’re taking over from a successful administration, right? It’s an uphill climb. But if you guys are honestly better off when this term is up, more power to him. ---
**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303/20 "2003-12-07T03:57:25Z")
I’ll take what I can get, I hope we get solutions and competence and good use of tax money. Right now, still on the existing budget, it is eight weeks and counting since the Special Registration Unit of the Dept. of Motor Vehicles in the state capital received the paperwork to correct the reg. to reflect the right license plate, on the car I am trying to sell They take the paperwork in order received. I’druther just pay the fees and get the service. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/governor-schwarzenegger/217303.md?page=2)