You just gotta love Arnold. In this month's issue of Men's Journal, Schwarzenegger says, ""Sacramento was death -- until I got there!"

The Sacrmento Bee editorial page responded with appropriate sarcasm:

"Dear Gov. Schwarzenegger:

"We, the citizens of Sacramento, want to thank you for breathing life into our once-corpse-like city. You, alone, have enlivened this moribund metropolis making its heart beat and its muscles bulge. Without you, Gov. Schwarzenegger, we would be as dead as a dog in a drainage ditch.

"Some might have forgotten what it was like in the BS -- Before Schwarzenegger -- era. The streets were empty. There was darkness everywhere. Vultures perched on trees, and we all dressed in black hoods, carrying our scythes.

"But then you came, Gov. Schwarzenegger, and it all changed. The skies parted. The flowers bloomed. The sun shone down on the city. Everyone was happy.

(via the LA Times blog, Political Muscle)