Graft and Privacy

Nostradamus asks for my opinion on news that California's favorite son took money from supplement companies while vetoing legislation restricting the sale of supplements. I see this as a miniature version of the Big Problem (for me) with Arnold: he's a self-serving egomaniac with dubious respect for democratic norms, many of whose political positions I nevertheless agree with. The bans and attempted bans on prohormones, ephedra, and other supplements are a shameful example of Drug War posturing bleeding into hitherto untouched areas of private life, and vetoing this nonsense was the right thing to do. On the other hand, it's baffling that Arnold was either 1) so obtuse as to see nothing wrong with receiving an effective kick-back from companies whose legal standing he presides over, or 2) so much of a prick that he thinks he's just entitled to pull these numbers.