We were warned.
Hollywood ‘green’ activist is top Schwarzenegger aide
http://www.cppf.us/PFrndlyFiles/News/091003FDPF.html
Here's is a link to and snips from another informative article:
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/ca/story/8122995p-9055102c.html
• She is nearly always at Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's side, a dark-haired wire of energy who, like the governor, arrived in Sacramento by way of Hollywood. Officially, Bonnie Reiss is a senior adviser. In truth, the former entertainment lawyer, accountant and producer is one of the governor's most trusted aides and one of his wife's closest friends.
• Reiss treasures her relationship with Shriver, whom she met as an intern in the office of Shriver's uncle Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. The two women traveled together campaigning for Kennedy during his 1980 presidential bid and wound up in Los Angeles where Shriver met up with Schwarzenegger, whom she had recently begun to date. "They're my family and he's my brother in every sense of the word," said Reiss, who did a reading at the couple's wedding.
• Reiss was bitten by the Hollywood bug. After graduating from Antioch Law School in Washington, she moved to Los Angeles and opened a practice providing personal and legal services to young actors. But she found more fulfillment working for political causes -- including women's, environmental and civil rights issues -- and closed her practice to work with nonprofits.
• She was one of the founders with Barbra Streisand and others of the Hollywood Women's Political Committee, which raised money for Democratic U.S. Senate races.
• Reiss was also a founder of the Earth Communications Office (ECO) in 1988, where she led the effort to increase the entertainment industry's awareness of environmental issues and promote recycling. "Friends of mine, Ron Howard and Brian Glazer of Imagine Entertainment, gave me free office space at their company," recalled Reiss, who got another close friend, actor Tom Cruise, to sit on her board of directors.
• Maslansky said Reiss continues to have a hand in national politics. "Howard Dean, when he was beginning to think about running for president, one of the first people he called was Bonnie," Maslansky said. "She has relationships like that with other candidates."
• In 1992, Reiss helped producers Harry Thomason and his wife, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, provide entertainment for Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration.
You betcha! That was a good article.
I also found recently that Reiss was (is?) heavily involved with the Streisand funded Hollywood Women’s Political Action Committee, along with the likes of Code-Pink Jodie Evans. Such great company Arnie keeps.