See this Sacramento Bee column. A snippet: “Is it somehow better, from a public interest standpoint, that Schwarzenegger stage an elaborate charade of noninvolvement in the supposedly independent committee? Of course not. The ballot measures almost certainly will proceed, and huge sums of money will be collected and spent on both sides of the battle. We’d be better served if Schwarzenegger simply raised the money directly and took responsibility for spending it. We would then be able to judge whether – as some critics have alleged – corporate interests that contribute to his causes receive most-favored treatment by the administration.”