Athletes in Government

     What is life like after their adventurous career in college sports or professional sports? Many names have taken this route. One huge icon is Arnold Swharszennegger, the famous 8 time Mr. Olympia IBBF title holder.  His career spans to 1972 in USC as a bodybuilder and in the streets of Los Angeles, shown walking with one of his contemporaries Frank Zane 3 time Mr. Olympia winner, until he finally made it to big time show, as California's last governor.  More recently mayor of Honolulu, Mufi Hannemann all OIA/ILH  HHSAA's finest in 1974 played football and basketball all in his hometown, Honolulu, Hawaii, and then went on to become mayor in 1994, tried but failed, then in 2002 finally he got in, and in 2006 and finally ended his career as mayor in 2010. A six foot eight tall man and former athlete and a commanding figure that showed poise and structure in Honolulu county government.   In 1985 Russ Francis former San Francisco 49ners six foot five tight end became a Honolulu city councilmen for 2 terms before retiring. He played several years with Joe Montana the famous quarterback of SF and with a total of 4 superbowl titles and then become of sports icon most successful athlete.  Bernard Carvalho Jr. and Ross Kagawa Kaua'i contemporaries at UH football and baseball, years after became Kaua'i's spokesperson for politics on Kaua'i.  Namely "better than you or better than you can get" and "how can we help" was the motto or slogan for these two running for candidacy on Kaua'i.  1976 playing for the Washington Bullets, 6-8 senator for D.C. was a man named Kelly Trapucca and played with the likes of Julius Erving Philadelphia 76ers.  Kelly represented many athletes in the white house and would go on to become an integral part of the everyday lives of people all over D.C. area and with his contemporaries backing him up, made a successful career as a senator. Barak Obama played for the Punahou Buffanblous in 1979 and went on to UH to finish up his career in Political Science/Business Administration double major, then only to become few to represent college and high school, and with a power forward statistics in basketball at Punahou High School, he became our president, United States Of America.  He played great basketball, just to get there. Now he runs this country. George Bush played baseball for the Texas baseball team in 1962, then went on to become U.S. President in 1988.  His son Jeb Bush also was a governer of Texas.  Their promising notes in sports made them a qualified and known official for everyone of national citizens to look to in time of need and war and peace. They were the ones people looked to and were seen all over the media.  With the like also of New York Yankees backing him up, it was said that Alex Rodriquez, after his playing days, he has his eyes set on becoming NY's governor.  He needs only several more years to become a citizen of the U.S.A. to become indoctrinated and accepted, then only to become NY's governor and one of the nation's outspoken candidate to represent the lower tier of our nation's income, but with baseball, to our nation's top tier income.  [continue]