With a spate of headlines that demonstrate the importance of the Internet as a lever for political and social issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Austrian birthplace of Graz is making a name for itself in a new way: political critic. It started when Schwarzenegger asked that his name be removed from a soccer stadium. The California governor wrote to his hometown earlier this month, requesting that Graz officials stop using his name for promotional purposes after political opponents there denounced him for refusing to stay
the Dec. 13 execution of Stanley Tookie Williams.
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Schwarzenegger’s Spat With Hometown Shows Net’s Political Pull
Posted by: Jennifer LeClaire December 27, 2005 11:36 AMWith a spate of headlines that demonstrate the importance of the Internet as a lever for political and social issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Austrian birthplace of Graz is making a name for itself in a new way: political critic. It started when Schwarzenegger asked that his name be removed from a soccer stadium. The California governor wrote to his hometown earlier this month, requesting that Graz officials stop using his name for promotional purposes after political opponents there denounced him for refusing to stay
the Dec. 13 execution of Stanley Tookie Williams.