Schwarzenegger smoking tent led to flooding in California Capitol

[RamboLiberal]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2004/09/22/state1220EDT7381.DTL

A tent constructed so Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could smoke his cigars at the state Capitol contributed to some of the water damage suffered during a sudden rainstorm Sunday, state officials said Tuesday.

The artificial lawn covering the Republican governor's smoking patio blocked at least one drain during the downpour, helping drench some offices, said Scott Edelen, a spokesman for the Department of General Services.

After taking office last year, Schwarzenegger, a cigar enthusiast, installed a small smoking tent in the middle of the ground-floor patio outside the governor's office. He also had a layer of artificial grass placed over existing concrete.

"At least one of the drains was covered," Edelen said. "The turf impeded the flow of water into it, for sure. But the main contributor was the 2 inches of rain in an hour. ... It was too much rain in an hour."

[hlthe2b]

1. LOL...................

:eyes:

[Carla in Ca]

15. We are a laughing stock!

What will this cost me, I wonder!!!

[donco6]

2. Snort.

What a dick.

[KurtNYC]

3. Jah, he has der special smoking muscles

which must be kept perfectly pumped up to their maximum pumptitude by sucking on phallic shaped objects daily.

[Trajan]

13. LMFAO ....

Ok .. now THAT was fuckin funny ....

[Tangledog]

28. Pumptitude, eh?

My favorite word coinage of the week. Dumbassery, later in this thread, is a good one too.

;-)

[xchrom]

4. he's an ididot

how much did that tent cost the tax payers?

[krkaufman]

16. Yeah, good question.

I was wondering that, myself. Given California's budget woes it seems an unnecessary extravagence. The Governator should be required to pay the damages.

[truthisfreedom]

5. hmph.

[napi21]

6. As much as I think Arnold is an idiot, I can't fault him for this one.

Whoever the fools were who put the grass over a drain are just incompetent. They should get the bill for repairing the rain damage and fixing their mistake.

Arnold isn't capable of very much, but he sure shouldn't have to know how to lay artificial grass.

[brook]

18. I disagree.

Ahnold or one of his minions should have planned, supervised & signed off on the job. You don't have to be a drain surgeon.

Or maybe you do.?

[WhiteTara]

29. smoking in public buildings is and

even if his tent is temporary (which should have been
permitted and inspected) it is still IN a public building
since we the public pay for it, so the gropinator should pay
for it...stinking up the joint with nasty cigars and killing
the rest of us with his nasty second hand smoke.

[Francine Frensky]

32. But what if he insisted it be there???

workman to Schwarz: "we've got a problem, sir. If we lay this grass under the tent, it'll cover up...."

Schwarz: "what kind of girlie-man are you??? I said I wanted a tent with grass, and that's what I'll have!! In Austria, or in Nixon's america, you would be in jail for questioning my orders. Do you understand?"

Seriously, what the gropenator wants, I imagine the gropenator gets.

[StClone]

7. Healthmeister

Is a cigar chomping huffer!

Cigars aren't they a tobacco product and isn't smoking them bad for you?

Isn't Arnold a health advocate? Flippity Flop (Al should Trademark this as I see wingers using it) or hypocrisy.

[KansDem]

8. I thought California passed very stringent "no smoking" legislation...

Do I surmise from this article that "smoking tents" are permissible on public property?

[BrotherBuzz]

21. Yes, and it circumvents the law nicely....

What makes me mad is nobody is squawking about is the fact that the gropenator smokes and makes no attempt to condemn the nasty habit! One would think the governor would want to set an example for all the impressionable young that smoking is not cool, yet he flies in the face of conventional wisdom with this tent...'I do smoke and I'm big and strong and made a lot of money (your money, Ha,ha) making films and and I'm not a Girlie-man, and I'm the Governor'.

[Parche]

9. arnold

WHAT A FLOODING GIRLY MAN

[Cocoa]

10. RECALL!!

if this isn't grounds for a recall, what is.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

11. Recall the SOB!!!

[David Zephyr]

12. Well, The Tobacco Lobby Can Pick Up the Bill for This.

I don't want one penny of my California taxes going to clean up this shit.

Perhaps, Arnold's bootlicker, David "Dottie" Drier, can lend him some funds from his boyfriends taxpaid salary.

[Gothamite]

14. fair is fair

If he's going to insist that the residents of the Bay Area pay overages because they want the new Bay Bridge to not be ugly, he should have to pay the damages that installing his smoking tent cause.

[newyawker99]

17. Hi Gothamite!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[donheld]

30. glad to see you with us

:hi:

[drdtroit]

24. Tabacco lobby? doubtful,

he's smoking those illegal Cubans just like Rush, etal.

[Hard Attack]

19. Arnold had Heart Surgery a while back...

Arnold had heart surgery a while back.

Show me one cardiologist who would say thats its ok to smoke after heart surgery.

Arnold is an all around jerk off just on this issue alone.

[Missy Vixen]

22. Here's a question

>Show me one cardiologist who would say thats its ok to smoke after heart surgery.<

Did he really have "heart surgery", or was that what was announced in the media?

Only an idiot would continue to smoke after a valve replacement, which is the surgery I seem to remember he supposedly had.

Julie

[goclark]

26. Claimed it "ran in his family"

I recall them saying that it was something that his mother,father etc. had too.

We all know it was the steroids.

And, now he smokes cigars and gropes too.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

20. Sucker. And you blow. n/t

[johnfunk]

23. Arnie belongs in the Cigar Afficinado Dumbassery Hall of Fame

That is too funny!

[leesa]

25. This creature is such an arrogant out-of-touch nazi.

[allalone]

27. he needs to suck cigars

cuz you can't suck dick at work

[EST]

31. You can't?!!?

Show me the statute.