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May 30, 2005
Fixing A Hole
"I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in, and stops my mind from wandering where it will go... And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong, I'm right where I belong, I'm right where I belong
-- The Beatles, 1967
Republican poster child and favorite wolf in sheep's clothing Arnold "See? We're Not All Extremist Right Wing Wackos" Schwarzenegger apparently wanted to show the people of California just how serious he is about fixing up the state's roads and getting more money for transportation in California. How serious is he? Serious enough to have crews go into a San Jose neighborhood and create a pothole on a street that didn't have one, just so the Governator could be photographed filling it.
"For paving the streets, it's a lot of lighting,'' said resident Nick Porrovecchio, 48, motioning to a team of workmen setting up Hollywood-style floodlights on the street to bathe the gubernatorial podium in a soft glow.
But their street, he noted, didn't even have a hole to pave over until Thursday morning.
"They just dug it out,'' Porrovecchio said, shrugging. "There was a crack. But they dug out the whole road this morning.''
"It's a lot of money spent on a staged event," said Matt Vujevich, 74, a retiree whose home faced the crew-made trench that straddled nearly the whole street.
Creating a problem where there is none, then claiming public credit for solving it. Sounds like a Republican, all right.
