Action Arnold at War with Graz Mayor!
Arnold Demands Graz Stadium Name Change!
Reported By: TheARNOLDFANS.com Staff
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Over the last few weeks, TheArnoldFans.com has been flooded with emails from Austrians who are completely embarrassed by Graz's Mayor's actions lately. The new Mayor, Siegfried Nagl, of Arnold's old Austrian homeland has never been much of an Arnold fan and has been conducting a personal war with The Oak for some time tells our many Austrian residential reporters.

For the past week, the Mayor has been telling the press that he and his small girly band would like to see Arnold's name removed from the local sports stadium. This was a childish threat since many people in the mayor's camp knew that The mayor would not get the support to do such an act.

However, sick of the mayor's threats and lies, and the embarrassment of such a shameful Mayor, Arnold gets the last words!

Schwarzenegger demanded his name be taken off a stadium in the Austrian town of Graz, following harsh criticism of his refusal to reverse the death sentence of a former Los Angeles gang leader.

"To spare the leadership in Graz further embarrassments, I withdraw with immediate effect the right to use my name in connection with stadium," the Austrian-born Republican governor wrote to the mayor of Graz, Siegfried Nagl, in an open letter published by the Austrian press.

The former actor agreed in 1997 to lend his name to the new stadium in the southeastern town of Graz, the state capital of Styria.

In his letter, Schwarzenegger said he was "disappointed" by local criticism following the execution in California on December 13 of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the former gang leader sentenced to die in 1981 for a quadruple murder he denied ever committing.

"It is quite likely I will have similar difficult decisions to make during my remaining time as governor," he added in his letter.

Without supporting the initiative, Nagl said he was "disappointed" Schwarzenegger did not consider his own request that Williams be pardoned.

It is rumored that Human rights groups and the Green party have asked the stadium be renamed Stanley-Williams. However the the fans who have been writing us say they are embarrassed for their Mayor but are sad to see Arnold's name be removed from the stadium. Austrians are hoping that Arnold will reconsider... after all, it is the Mayor's war of words and not their own.

Born in July 1947 in Thal near Graz, Schwarzenegger emigrated to the United States in the late 1960s.