{hint: to view in larger font hold down the ctrl and hit the + keys on your keyboard.] november, 15 2005 dear governer schwarzenegger, i would never have imagined i'd be writing you. i have watched many of the movies you've acted in, the most memorable to me being conan and those in the terminator series. i remember spending many hours enjoying your accent and muscle bound adventures. i was a youngster then and it never even occured to me how much of an illusion films were. as an adult i have learned that you were actually a professional body builder from another country, whose muscles and accent were very real. however, the schwarzenegger persona presented on countless reels of cellulose were written, produced and directed by (i believe) persons other than yourself. i have discovered the art of pretending sometimes referred to as cinematography. i will not be pretending with you. i voted against you for governor. i also voted no on many of the propositions you decided to create a special election for. your presence in the governor’s office has not been particularly inspiring to me. what i can say i respect is your work with the after school programs that i believe you’d been working on prior to your becoming governor. nonetheless, all may not be lost. by all, i am referring to the days in your current term as governor. i feel encouraged that finally there is a concrete opportunity for you to show what you are really made of. i feel like i and so many others will not necessarily be able to summarily write you off as the governor who was anti-californian. even though it will go down in history that many of us took issue with your motives, ideas and actions, there could be a semi-colon added. following that punctuation could be words like compassionate and humane. for this, you do not need a balanced budget. more appropriate would the sentencing of yourself into your own personal solitary confinement. a place away from every one, including arnold schwarzenegger: the bodybuilder, actor, politician, husband and father. you need to make this decision. it needs to come from the most un-manipulated part of yourself you can find. i call that part of myself my heart, my spirit or my soul. what ever you happen to call it, i pray that you will find it and be brave enough to spend as much time as you need there, from now to the dawn of december 12th. come the 13th all eyes will be on you. i wonder what i will see. home |
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