Opinion: While governor sleeps, a terrified California awaits his next move

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(UPDATE below.)

Now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has finished his visit to an international technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany, will he come home to California? To his people?

Will the Republican chief executive visit his native Austria?

Will he take a quick jaunt by jet to the Iberian Peninsula or the United Kingdom?

Well, fact is, nobody knows for sure where the Gov is going next when he wakes up tomorrow morning. Maybe not even the governor. Yet.

“Here’s what I know,” Schwarzenegger’s press secretary Aaron McLear informs from Sacramento.

“The governor is in Hanover as we speak. He’s going to bed. When he wakes up in the morning, we will probably know what he is doing next.”

So, stand by your laptop, folks. Or sit. Your call. We do know the gov is due in Ohio on Friday for the start of the “Arnold Classic,” his annual bodybuilding competition. And no one would want to miss a March visit to Columbus, Ohio, where the sun will return in just a few weeks.

But don’t worry about any official lollygagging. “Regardless of where he is,’ Maclear assures the world, ‘he will be doing the people’s business.” So now you know how uncertain the situation is. Try to carry on a normal life. The search will resume at sunrise.

(UPDATE: OK, get out your maps. Word just in from the OGT’s (Official Governor Trackers) that Schwarzenegger has just now popped up in Geneva, Switzerland, where he apparently fled during Tuesday night local time. No one seems to know what he’s seeking there. Chocolate? Another broken leg skiing? But Maclear describes Wednesday as a ‘private day’ for one of the world’s most famous cinema faces. Good luck with hiding out there.)

-- Michael Rothfeld

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