No Love for Boob-Groping Guv

In case you feel left out, it wasn’t just the Times-Standard that underwent late notice that the governator was in town.

Although the Humboldt Herald broke the news that Schwarzenegger had descended upon Eureka High, we did not suffer the same insult landed upon T-S reporter James Faulk, who endured a high school door shut in his face when attempting to “sit in on” the exclusive interview the Guv gave Eureka Reporter editor Glenn Franco Simmons.

Being the bigger man, however, Faulk brushed aside such royal snubbing in order to fulfill the duties of a reporter.

After a break-down on Arnold’s fascination with student work on an engine powering the hated Humboldt hippie-mobile – the Subaru – Faulk shares the pain of working for the paper not owned by Arkley.

The governor, after giving a brief talk to the general media, disappeared behind a closed door with Editor Glenn Franco Simmons of The Eureka Reporter, a newspaper owned by one of Schwarzenegger’s largest financial contributors, Rob Arkley … [while the] reporter from the Times-Standard was turned away at the door, despite requesting to sit in on an interview that was taking place on public school property.

Times-Standard editor Rich Somerville added:

I’m unsure if this exclusionary interview reflects cynical political manipulation by the governor’s office, or merely communications incompetence. It’s certainly ironic, however, that the Times-Standard recently endorsed Schwarzenegger for re-election, while The Eureka Reporter has not made any election judgments, as far as I know.

While “cynical political manipulation” is clearly the culprit, the Humboldt Herald feels no sympathy for suckers who endorsed the gropenator.