4-18-07 by Court
The lawyer from Ecuador who is prosecuting Chevron for its crimes against the Amazon has written Arnold Schwarzenegger, asking the Gov to get tough with Chevron, which has kicked in more than a half million to Schwarzenegger’s political committees.
Peter Nicholas of the LA Times wrote the story. For those of us who have watched Arnold work, it’s hard to imagine that letter will get answered.
Schwarzenegger has not lifted a finger to challenge oil company profiteering and, as Nicholas himself reported recently, Schwarzenegger’s environmental record is pretty shady… despite Arnold Inc.’s marketing effort to position the Governator as the second coming of Al Gore.
Bobby Kennedy, the environmental lawyer, is brother-in-law to the Gov, but I doubt even he can defy political reality and get Arnold to criticize one of his top donors. Schwarzenegger’s last chief of staff was actually a former Chevron lobbyist. The inconvenient truth is that oil companies are the wind beneath Arnold’s political wings and he won’t be ruffling any feathers soon.