Arnold prefers black pavement to green

Looks like developers got to the Governator. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger fired his own brother in law, Bobby Shriver and actor-director Clint Eastwood, both on a California state parks commission because they were against the Governor's disgraceful plan to add a toll road through a state park.

"I had hoped to continue to do this work and continue to protect the park system from developers," Shriver said. "It shows you how strong these developers were that were able to arm-wrestle the governor into firing us."

Shriver, the commission chairman, and Eastwood, the vice chairman, led the panel in its unanimous opposition in 2005 to a six-lane toll road that would cut through San Onofre State Beach, one of Southern California's most cherished surfing beaches.

Shriver and Eastwood supported a 2006 lawsuit to block the toll road and urged the California Coastal Commission to reject the project, which it did last month. That decision is being appealed by local transportation agencies.