Arnie terminates Clint's day job!

Clint Eastwood, former Mayor of Carmel, California, got a day that he wasn't expecting to pan out the way it did. Arnold Schwarzenegger had decided that his actor pal and mentor could be replaced on the State Parks Commission. All because Clint is against a plan to build the Foothill South toll road through San Onofre State Beach, a park in Orange County that is popular for its surfing and scenery. The project was defeated by the California Coastal Commission in February.

Arnie may think a six-lane highway will help global warming, but I would have thought that Eastwood had more in the way of local support. But if you've got opposition, why not "terminate" them? Eastwood seems more bemused than annoyed. "I think it was just somebody got a bee under their bonnet at the right moment, so there we are," he said. Of the governor, he added, "I guess he felt we were going to be guys who were going to be obstructionists for anything through state parks."