Posted on 11/05/2004 11:47:01 PM PST by calcowgirl
Thirteen years ago, Terry Tamminen was a Malibu pool cleaner and part-time actor with a gift for charming influential people and a resume that chronicled more rambling than a Jack Kerouac novel.
Tamminen had sold condos in Florida, managed a sheep ranch in the Midwest, helped start a bottle recycling program in Nigeria, dabbled in Shakespearean acting and measured chlorine levels for such celebrities as Madonna and Johnny Carson. His peripatetic career had taken him from California to Australia to Europe and back again.
In his 40s and still unfulfilled, Tamminen began moving more purposefully in a direction that ultimately brought him to the attention of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last year, Schwarzenegger appointed him environmental protection secretary. On Friday, he named Tamminen his Cabinet secretary. The $123,000-a-year job makes him chief liaison between the governor and the heads of the major state agencies.
Among the most liberal of Schwarzenegger's advisors — a self-described "tree-hugger," Tamminen has won the Republican governor's confidence for his bipartisan negotiating skills and loyalty to Schwarzenegger's agenda.
(snip)
Tamminen's unlikely rise began in 1991 when he persuaded the late Disney President Frank Wells to finance Santa Monica Baykeeper, part of a national network of environmental groups dedicated to protecting oceans and rivers. The network is headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a cousin of California First Lady Maria Shriver.
The pool-keeper thus became bay-keeper. When Dustin Hoffman later ran into Tamminen at an environmental fundraiser, Tamminen said the actor told his former pool man, "Glad to see you finally cleaning up the big pool."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
ping - More Tamminen!
Is there a more annoying, whiney liberal that RFK, Jr? If so, don't tell me.
Watch this guy stab Arnold in the back every chance he gets and he'll make AS thinks he's getting a massage...
Another shallow thinker who'll really be a stinker; who'll do nothing but tinker and make this state a sinker!!!
non-partisan, bipartisan, whatever, call it 'in the can' for the GReenies as the end result and you know the lefties in the Capital won't fight the GReenGub's agenda on that basis. Even if they are 'losers'. (btw, the Gub was referring to the proposals of the lefties; tax hikes, etc, not them personally.) However, how do you separate the 2? It seems the GUb has that ability , amazingly enough. Must be a special effect thing he brought with him from his Hollywood days.
You mean a floater don't you?
According to some on here it's whatever floats his boat. I'm certainly NOT SOLD ON SCHWARZENEGGER!!! (Or his outrageous appointees!!!)
Yes and I don't get it. I see the arguments in favor of him and I flat don't understand. There are none so blind...
"We, as a team, approached Arnold, and he welcomed us in after he and Bobby spoke at length," said campaign advisor Terry Tamminen, executive director of the Santa Monica-based Environment Now. Tamminen, who launched Santa Monica BayKeeper, has a long association with Kennedy. (snip)Vague on many issues until now, Schwarzenegger, who has been lampooned by rival candidates for driving around in a gas-guzzling Hummer, asked voters to trust him on the environment.
Now, as he strives to back up his claims with substance, he is also trying to repair his public image by retrofitting his car.
Tamminen, an Orange County-based mechanic who has converted other vehicles to run on hydrogen and other alternative fuels, is measuring the Hummer to see whether he can quickly get the needed parts.
“It will be the ultimate alternative fuel vehicle,” Tamminen said. “It will run on either natural gas or hydrogen.”
Tamminen is by all reports a very smart cookie.
His resume reads like that of a con artist.
Most successful con men are also smart.
He reminds me of that little buddy of O. J. Simpson whose name won't come to me at the moment!
"Tamminen had sold condos in Florida, managed a sheep ranch in the Midwest, helped start a bottle recycling program in Nigeria, dabbled in Shakespearean acting and measured chlorine levels for such celebrities as Madonna and Johnny Carson. His peripatetic career had taken him from California to Australia to Europe and back again."
This has gay scribbled all over it. Pool cleaner, *sheep* manager, Florida, drug runner between Cali, Australia and Europe.... Yeah riiiiight sure.
Brian "Kato" Kaelin?
Jack of all trades, master of none = con man
recycling program in Nigeria
"recycling program in Nigeria"
Not sure I even want to know. (((shudder)))
Could be. It had the ring of "too good to be true."
"It had the ring of "too good to be true."
closet cases generally are (ick)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.