Arnold Schwarzenegger : California Reporting

Arnold Schwarzenegger attacked single mothers in 2001, but the speech didn’t hurt him. He announced running for Governor of California on August 6, 2003 during an episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Schwarzenegger declined to participate in several Governor debates. He was preparing to look into the California Senate race of 2010. Arnold Schwarzenegger could have become President of the United States if he had been born in the United States and not Thal, Australia. I took my brother and cousin to Thal in the early nineties and we actually workout in an Austrian hotel weight room as a joke to say we lifted weights were Arnold was from. The package was part of a tour. We waltzed through Vienna, Salzburg, and road chartered buses to Italy and Germany. The bus stopped in Thal, Austria for the night. I have written about Arnold Schwarzenegger ties to painters and artist that have a Conservative lean towards Nazi symbolism in a few of my books. California Republicans were ready to put Arnold in the White House. Suddenly a few days ago, the Governor’s wife left him. Separated, split, public announcements about a potential divorce were replacing the news. Then the comet from space hit the ground again. As I write this sentence, Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted to fathering a child from a sexual affair ten years ago. His wife never knew. His children had no idea. His party of Republicans were caught off guard by the hypocrisy. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a Conservative member of the GOP. He was the California choice as Republican Governor. In 2001, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was considered the job as Governor of California, the actor railed against single-parent families by shouting this speech at a fund raising event, “The parents are the single most important influence on a child, followed by education and the peer group. The number of single parents in the U.S. has quadrupled since the '60s, and there has also been an increase in violence and school shootings. All that stuff has increased largely because of a lack of parenting, and many households only have one biological parent -- so many of them are fatherless. It really creates a big problem.”