Schwarzenegger Cuts Ties With Arnold’s Classic Bodybuilding Competition

The ASSociated Press has Schwarzenegger Cuts Ties With Competition.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has cut business ties with an annual bodybuilding competition that bears his name, taking another step to distance himself from makers of nutritional supplements.

The governor was paid a fee each year to attend the bodybuilding event called the Arnold Classic, where dietary supplements are heavily promoted.

“That financial relationship is over,” spokeswoman Margita Thompson said Saturday. “He wanted the people to know he’s focusing on governing and didn’t want this to be viewed as a distraction.”

The truth is there has been no real conflict of interest and no quid pro quo for any California legislation. Like a true Hollywood type though Arnold is adverse to confrontation and any appearance of impropriety.

This FLAP is much ado about Nothing.

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