Arnold's Stogies Terminated & More!
The Oak apologizes for border comment!
Reported By: TheARNOLDFANS.com Staff
Sunday, April 24, 2005

A bill approved Wednesday by an Assembly committee would ban Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others, from lighting up cigars in the Capitol courtyard.

The panel approved a measure to ban smoking in enclosed courtyards of state buildings, including the one where Schwarzenegger put up a "smoking tent."

Schwarzenegger's office said he hasn't taken a position on the bill. California already bans smoking inside public buildings and within 20 feet of an entrance to those facilities.

In other Governator news, Arnold Schwarzenegger just apologized for his recent border comment. Blaming his faulty English, Gov. Arnold said he misspoke when he suggested that California's border with Mexico should be closed to help solve the nation's illegal immigration problem.

In his remarks Tuesday, Schwarzenegger told journalists: "Close the borders in California and all across Mexico and in the United States. Because I think it is just unfair to have all those people coming across, have the borders open the way it is, and have this kind of lax situation."

Schwarzenegger made the remark while speaking to newspaper editors and publishers Tuesday. He said he intended to say the border should be secured.

"Yesterday was a total screw-up in the words I used," the Republican said at a news conference. "Because instead of closing, I meant securing. I think maybe my English, I need to go back to school and study a little bit."

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TheARNOLDFANS.com Staff