Arnold takes money from the same people Davis did, only more. He stays bought too.
Sounds to me like you may be assuming that anyone rich is automatically doing something illegal or, at least, ethically wrong.
Nonsense. Great entrepreneurs are the builders of America. Those who rely upon favorable regulations to kill their competition are thugs who belong in jail.
Even if that were true, at least having such diversified holdings means that he won't be too beholding to any one interest over the other.
These aren't holdings; they are CONTRIBUTIONS. When developers contribute, it's because they love selectively enforced environmental laws that make property cheap to buy with a fat markup upon the sale. Big power companies were perfectly happy to go bankrupt to kill small power producers and lock in high priced contracts under Davis. Arnold belongs lock, stock, and barrel to the same people who created the power crisis, by marriage. The financial guys love selling the State more debt that Arnold has no compunctions about incurring. The grain farmers love Arnold's idiotic love-affair with hydrogen from alcohol.
So it goes. Corruption is bankrupting this State.
"Big power companies were perfectly happy to go bankrupt to kill small power producers . . .
Yup, me and ma, and old Bessy the mule been generating power for six generations now... till that evil Big Power company put us outta business