Capitol Hill Staffer Created the Schwarzenegger Bobblehead

Although this blog and it's main bobbleheads website covered quite a few stories about the Schwarzenegger bobblehead lawsuit, here's a report that sheds a little more light on the story.

It's about the guy who came up with the idea for this nodder, including how it was inspired and how much money he raised theorugh its sales (while they lasted) and what upcoming Governator bobbleheads he has planned.

For anyone who was interested in this whole fiasco, the article fills in a lot of blanks...

"...The ex-staffer said he created the bobbleheads because to raise money for the fight against sarcoma. Friends had lost their daughter to the rare cancer, which afflicts 20,000 children age 2-6 each year. In 2003, he used $25,000 of his own money to finance the production of 4,000 bobbleheads that included Sen. John Kerry, retired Gen. Wesley Clark former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Schwarzenegger.
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The reason Edgell put Schwarzenegger in a suit with a machine gun also comes with a story. In 2003, Edgell was still working for Kucinich when Edgell dropped his 3-year-old son off at Capitol Hill day-care center one morning. When Schwarzenegger came up in conversation, some of the children immediately created pretend guns with their hands, mimicking the actor's roles in such movies as 'Terminator' and 'Predator.' Shocked, Edgell decided that his bobblehead of Schwarzenegger had to carry a gun...

Read the entire article at: TheHill.com.