California Recall Daily Thread (10/3/2003) 4 Days To Go

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Connecting the Dots: The long tentacles of the get-Arnold campaign

LA Weekly ^ | 10-3-03 | Bill Bradley
Posted on 10/03/2003 12:41 AM PDT by ambrose

OCTOBER 3 - 9, 2003
The long tentacles of the get-Arnold campaign
by Bill Bradley

There is no coincidence like great coincidence. Especially in politics. It was one of those days on the campaign trail with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The L.A. Times dumped its long-anticipated negative research story on the gubernatorial front-runner on Thursday morning. Three reporters, including a Pulitzer Prize winner, labored the better part of two months and came up with a less salacious sequel to a notorious Premiere magazine story of 2001. It was all about Arnold, as you don’t want to know him, talking crudely to women, unwantedly touching women. Six women, over a course of 30 years, four of them anonymous. It was less than anticipated given the buildup, but troubling.

And, by coincidence, of course, it was a bad start for Schwarzenegger at the very moment he launches his big statewide bus tour of California.

So Schwarzenegger, at the kickoff rally in San Diego at the early hour of 9 a.m., does the unexpected. He apologizes. Saying that much in the article is untrue, he admits that he has engaged in unacceptable behavior on "rowdy movie sets" with some behavior he "thought playful" but may also have offended people. "I have to prove I will be a champion for women as governor," he declares, to loud cheers from the crowd of 800.

The assembled traveling press corps of 200 is surprised. If he is not going to be defensive, it is hard to see where the story goes....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994301/posts

Poll: Davis on the ropes [State Senate to meet next week to ram through 11th hour Davis appointees]

Press Enterprise ^ | 10-3 | Press Enterprise
Posted on 10/03/2003 2:23 AM PDT by ambrose

Arnold on top, Davis on the ropes

FIELD POLL: A new survey shows Schwarzenegger with a solid lead and Gov. Davis in trouble.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994320/posts

Washington Wrap: Bye-Bye Bustamante? [It's Arnold by a landslide next Tuesday]

CBS News ^ | Friday, October 3, 2003 | Dotty Lynch, Douglas Kiker, Steve Chaggaris, Clothilde Ewing, Sean Sharifi and Natasha Kuzovich

Posted on 10/03/2003 3:08 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 10/03/2003 3:21 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Bye-Bye Bustamante? With the California recall less than a week away, the number of active candidates has shrunk from 135 to 132 with the withdrawal of Peter Ueberroth, Bill Simon and Arianna Huffington. Now there?s word that Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante may be next. Continues.

It's Arnold by a landslide next Tuesday

On the eve of a statewide bus tour and with polls showing the Recall vote a razor-thin 14 percentage points ahead, Arnold Schwarzenegger, veteran of the movie set where rowdy conduct and sexual indiscretion are completely unheard of, faced fresh charges of rowdy conduct and sexual indiscretion on the movie set from 6 women almost all of whom bravely spoke on condition of anonymity, according to a report in Thursday's Los Angeles Times....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994328/posts

Arnold Should Take The Offensive

NY Post ^ | 10-3-03 | Deborah Orin
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:21 AM PDT by paul in cape

Attached Link to Apology Story. Here's what Arnold Should Do TODAY. "Good Morning Ladies & Gentlemen. I called you together this morning to make the following announcement. I'm calling on Gov. Davis, Terry McAuliffe and Bill & Hillary Clinton to stop these sleazy leaks and personal attacks on me. They have a long history of slimy accusations on the last days before elections, which can not be substantiated. Mr. McAuliffe has over a decade of smear under his belt, working as a front to the Clinton Opposition Destruction Team. The people of California can end their regime, and maybe the Democrats will once and for all cut this cancer from their organization.

I call on every Democrat to support me, or else be tied to these schemers, and watch their party fall over the cliff. Republicans, Independants and honest Democrats can join together with me to rescue this state and country.

You have the power to end the Policy of Personal Destruction once and for all.

It's time to clean house, so LET"S ROLL!"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994340/posts

Arnold "Hitler" Charge is Bogus (and it's shameful how many here simply accept it as true)

Posted on 10/03/2003 4:28 AM PDT by jmstein7

I’m “deeply saddened” by the fact that so many FReepers seem to just accept the ABC “Nazi” charges against Arnold as true. I mean, I’m Jewish, and I would never vote for someone who praised Hitler, but the evidence here is thin, old and stale, and would probably not be admissible in a court of law. Therefore, it should not be admissible in the court of public opinion either – let alone simply assumed to be true by FReepers. I’m shocked and disappointed....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994343/posts

Fair & Balanced Line-up, Today Show Style: Arnold Accuser, Gloria Allred, Diane Feinstein

The Today Show
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:44 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

In a desperate, last-ditch effort to do its bit and turn the tide for Gray Davis, The Today Show dedicated its entire crucial first-hour to a discussion of the sexual harrassment/Hitler comments controversies swirling around Arnold.

Beyond the subject matter itself, the guests invited in to discuss the matter was perhaps even more revealing of The Today Show's blatant liberal bias.

First up was one of Arnold's harrassment accusers. She was accompanied by uber-feminist lawyer Gloria Allred.

You might have thought that to provide balance, Today's subsequent guest would have been an Arnold supporter. Think again. It was none other than CA Dem Sen. Dianne Feinstein, perhaps Davis's most influential and public supporter.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994352/posts

Unions Rally Latino California Voters

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | October 3, 2003 | JIM CARLTON
Posted on 10/03/2003 5:06 AM PDT by calcowgirl

Unions Rally Latino California Voters
Immigrants May Prove to Be Decisive Bloc
For Gov. Davis In His Bid to Avert Recall

LOS ANGELES -- The Latino turnout Tuesday in California's recall election is the wild card that could allow Gray Davis to hang on to the governor's office.

Most major polls show the embattled Democrat trailing badly in his bid to avoid being booted from office, and likely to be replaced by Republican challenger Arnold Schwarzenegger. That prospect has inspired a small army of union organizers who are blitzing potential voters in modest Latino neighborhoods with mailers, phone calls and advertisements in the Spanish-language press.

The get-out-the-vote campaign gained steam this week as 500 volunteers fanned out into the streets of Latino barrios all over Los Angeles County to personally beseech the largely Democratic voters -- particularly immigrant ones -- there to show up Tuesday and vote "no" on the recall....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994362/posts

CAMPAIGN BOMBSHELL: ARNOLD PRAISED HITLER IN BOOK PROPOSAL

Drudgereport ^ | OCT 02, 2003 | Drudge
Posted on 10/03/2003 6:34 AM PDT by ZULU

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 02, 2003 20:01:25 ET XXXXX

CAMPAIGN BOMBSHELL: ARNOLD PRAISED HITLER IN BOOK PROPOSAL

Am unearthed book proposal by Pumping Iron's director George Butler is set throw the California recall race in to new levels of complete chaos.

The book proposal quotes Arnold Schwarzenegger naming monster Adolf Hitler as a hero!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994411/posts

California: Recall, Schwarzenegger with big leads. Latest poll numbers bleak for Davis.

Dan Weintraub Weblog ^ | October 3, 2003 | Dan Weintraub
Posted on 10/03/2003 6:43 AM PDT by John Jorsett

The final Field Poll of the election is out this morning, and the numbers look bleak for Davis. The recall is leading 57-39 among likely voters, a sample Field describes as 43 percent Democrat and 38 percent Republican. Schwarzenegger has a big lead over Bustamante, 36-26, with McClitnock at 16, and 22 percent undecided.

My favorite stat from deep in the poll is this: Among those who say they did not vote for Davis or Simon a year ago, or did not vote at all, the recall is leading 70-24. And this self-described group makes up 30 percent of the sample. This, I think, confirms the belief by many, including me, that much of the energy behind the recall stems from the unprecedented voter antipathy toward the selection they were asked to make a year ago....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994418/posts

California: Bustamante is being asked to consider giving up race

Sacramento Bee ^ | October 3, 2003 | Gary Delsohn and Sam Stanton
Posted on 10/03/2003 6:51 AM PDT by John Jorsett

Sensing that their last hope of holding onto the governor's office may lie in getting Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante out of the race, some prominent Democrats have called him to discuss whether he is willing to drop out. Bustamante, a Democrat whose campaign asks voters to "vote no on the recall and yes on Bustamante," gave no sign Thursday that he had such plans, appearing at a Los Angeles debate and continuing his spate of TV commercials.

And his chief campaign strategist, Richie Ross, flatly rejected the notion that Bustamante would drop out, terming the idea "ridiculous." ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994421/posts

California: Arnold Fesses Up and People Are Mad -- at the Messenger

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 3, 2003 | Steve Lopez
Posted on 10/03/2003 6:57 AM PDT by John Jorsett

SAN DIEGO — Reports of Arnold Schwarzenegger's sexual mistreatment and humiliation of women drew outrage here Thursday on the campaign trail.

Outrage at the Los Angeles Times, not at Arnold.

I would have thought that at a gathering of conservatives, who rightly vilified President Bill Clinton for his raunchy scandal and nationally televised lies, there'd at least be some finger-wagging at Arnold.

Not a chance with the Teflon Terminator.

In San Diego, one Arnold supporter after another bashed The Times, and the beating continued at a second appearance in Costa Mesa, where hundreds of Arnold supporters roundly booed the mere mention of the paper....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994429/posts

California: Judge OKs Schwarzenegger's Use of $4.5-Million Loan

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 3, 2003
Posted on 10/03/2003 6:59 AM PDT by John Jorsett

A Sacramento judge refused Thursday to block Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger from using $4.5 million in bank loans to finance the final days of his campaign.

Although Superior Court Judge Loren McMaster denied a temporary restraining order against Schwarzenegger, his decision permits the plaintiff, Bill Camp, executive secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council, to pursue his suit after the election.

Contending that the suit was politically motivated, Schwarzenegger's attorneys countersued to seek sanctions against the plaintiff.

Camp's lawsuit accuses Schwarzenegger of violating contributions limits imposed by Proposition 34, passed by voters in 2000. That law restricts to $100,000 the size of loans that candidates may give their own campaigns. However, it allows bank loans of unlimited size if the terms and rates are available to the general public....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994436/posts

Calif: FPPC urged to act on Bustamante. Watchdog shouldn't just watch, state Sen. says

Sacramento Bee ^ | October 3, 2003 | Sam Stanton
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:07 AM PDT by John Jorsett

Continuing his assault on the campaign spending tactics used by Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, a prominent Republican state senator demanded Thursday that the Fair Political Practices Commission step into the controversy. "You are a political watchdog," Sen. Ross Johnson, R-Irvine, told the panel at its regular monthly meeting. "A watchdog can't just sit back and watch. From time to time you need to at least bark, and sometimes bite."

With less than a week before the recall election in which Bustamante is running to succeed Gov. Gray Davis, Johnson urged the committee to take any possible action to stop Bustamante from using millions in campaign funds to air television commercials....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994442/posts

Alan Keyes issues formal endorsement for Tom McClintock

RenewAmerica.us ^ | October 2, 2003 | RenewAmerica staff
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:45 AM PDT by EternalVigilance

On Thursday, Oct. 2, Alan Keyes issued the following endorsement of Sen. Tom McClintock in California's recall election....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994477/posts

Morford: Hasta La Vista, California

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, October 3, 2003 | Mark Morford
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:48 AM PDT by presidio9

And you thought the Jesse Ventura bobblehead was bad.

All right, so a couple "major" polls show the famous thick-necked slab of Austrian meat wielding a dangerous Conan-like lead over quivering not-as-bad-as-you-think Gray Davis.

And Schwarzenegger's bouncing around like a Hummer on meth, inflicting that weird maniacal grin and massive blocklike head all over the unsuspecting media, as pretty much the entire population of even slightly aware and intelligent people in California and in fact all over the nation go, oh holy Christ, please dear God no.

This is what's about to happen. We are on the verge of electing a new governor of the largest and most powerful state in the nation, the one with the fifth largest economy in the world and the most frighteningly intricate political infrastructure and infinitely complex and delicate network of water/energy/environment/immigrant/agriculture issues in existence, just one year after electing the last one....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994479/posts

McAuliffe: Arnold Shows Disturbing Pattern With Women

Newsmax.com ^ | 10-03-03 | Staff
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:59 AM PDT by veronica

Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who sat on his hands when his boss Bill Clinton was accused of everything from indecent exposure to rape, said Thursday that he's troubled by a report alleging that California gubernatorial front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger groped several women.

"There's a pattern of inappropriate behavior towards women," McAuliffe told CNN's "Inside Politics."

"Sure, it will have an impact" on the election, the DNC chief predicted. "I think [Schwarzenegger] needs to do more than come out and apologize. [He needs to] explain himself." ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994486/posts

News briefs on the California recall (Arnold's a bad example for your children?)

modesto bee ^ | 10-03-03
Posted on 10/03/2003 8:48 AM PDT by hoosierskypilot

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) - A small group of nurses and anti-smoking activists have accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of glamorizing smoking to children and questioning whether he would stand up to tobacco companies. "He tells us about his steroid use and openly promotes tobacco," said Joy Harvey, an emergency room nurse and representative of the United Nurses Association of California. "He has abused his own body for years. Why should he care about the rest of us?"

A group of about 10 rallied out Schwarzenegger's campaign office, demanding that the Republican actor, who owns the building that houses his office, end the lease of a tobacco shop in the complex. They also criticized him for appearing on the cover of Cigar Afficionado magazine and smoking in his movies.

Schwarzenegger spokesman Rob Stutzman said Schwarzenegger has never encouraged children to smoke, noting that the cigar magazine targets older readers.

"It's an adult magazine," Stutzman said. "He believes using tobacco is matter of choice for adults, but of course he discourages young people from smoking. And he's not a cigarette smoker."

He said Schwarzenegger would not kick out the cigar store.

"He believes in free enterprise," Stutzman said....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994521/posts

On the Campaign Bus with Arnold Schwarzenegger (Hugh Hewitt a Shock Jock!?!?)

NPR's Morning Edition ^ | 10/3/03 | John McChesney
Posted on 10/03/2003 8:51 AM PDT by republicofdavis

NPR's John McChesney is on the bus with California gubernatorial hopeful Arnold Schwarzenegger from San Diego to Los Angeles in advance of the Oct. 7 recall election.

An NPR report on Arnold's day yesterday. Scroll down to find title....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994522/posts

Schwarzenegger the Barbarian?

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 10/03/03 | Tammy Bruce
Posted on 10/03/2003 12:50 AM PDT by kattracks

It is absolutely remarkable for me to watch the same Democratic party hacks, who stood by and supported Bill Clinton during the revelations that he was an abuser of women, pull their hair out screaming about Schwarzenegger the Barbarian....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994303/posts

Beyond Recall - Can Schwarzenegger survive the Blizzard of Lies?

10/03/03 | Lowell Ponte
Posted on 10/03/2003 1:07 AM PDT by kattracks

PONTEFICATIONS

TODAY’S CULTURE WAR, WARRIORS AND TACTICS are on display in the pitched battles leading up to California’s October 7 recall vote and its expected aftermath. We can learn much about America’s new politics by examining some snapshots of this Left Coast battlefield....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994308/posts

LA Slimes: Radio Host Tells of Incident With Actor

LA Times ^ | 10-3 | LA Times
Posted on 10/03/2003 1:31 AM PDT by ambrose

Radio Host Tells of Incident With Actor A campaign aide says Schwarzenegger has no recollection of alleged encounter in the 1970s. By Megan Garvey Times Staff Writer

October 3, 2003

A well-known nationally syndicated radio host on Thursday publicly described being groped and propositioned by Arnold Schwarzenegger more than 20 years ago, when she was starting in the business and he was promoting his film "Pumping Iron."

Joy Browne, a psychologist whose advice program is syndicated to nearly 200 stations nationwide, described on the radio an encounter with Schwarzenegger that took place during an interview about the documentary, which was released in 1977.

Schwarzenegger fondled her legs under the table during the interview, she said....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994309/posts

Freep this poll (needs help!): KGO Radio--Yes or No on the recall?

October 3, 2003 | tame
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:04 AM PDT by tame

The following poll by KGO radio in Northern California (bay area) is seriously slanted the wrong way. The poll asks if you will vote yes or no on the recall. Please FREEP THIS POLL....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994336/posts

A Deplorable October Surprise (Susan Estrich re: LA Times)

LA Times ^ | 10-03-03 | Susan Estrich
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:08 AM PDT by veronica

So this is the October surprise? The Los Angeles Times headline that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped and humiliated women?

None of the six women interviewed by The Times filed legal charges. Four of the six were quoted anonymously. Of the two who were named, one, a British television hostess, had told her story to Premiere magazine years ago, and it has been widely known and largely ignored. The other recounts an alleged incident of fondling at Gold's Gym nearly 30 years ago....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994337/posts

He's the Poster Boy of Trash Politics (Schwarzenegger)

los angeles times ^ | October 3, 2003 | K.B. Forbes
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:41 AM PDT by calcowgirl

K.B. Forbes, a GOP strategist, was communications director for Bill Simon's most recent gubernatorial campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has become the poster child for the newest form of trash politics: a political system so corrupt and undemocratic that a compulsive sexual deviant was anointed the de facto nominee by California GOP bosses in a smoke-free backroom....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994350/posts

Schwarzenegger Sows Doubt Among State Environmentalists

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 3, 2003 | Miguel Bustillo And Marla Cone
Posted on 10/03/2003 4:50 AM PDT by calcowgirl

Recent remark, later clarified by aides, about the possibility of scrapping Cal/EPA only bolsters skepticism.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested this week that he would consider eliminating the California Environmental Protection Agency to cut government waste, he cemented what has emerged as a near-universal distrust of his gubernatorial candidacy among conservationists.

Schwarzenegger has made a concerted play for the environmental vote, tapping his wife's cousin, prominent conservation attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to help fashion his platform. His campaign pronouncements more closely match the environmental views of the man he wants to replace in Tuesday's recall election, Democrat Gray Davis, than those of his fellow Republican, President Bush.

Yet he has failed to sway a single major environmental organization to his side, and most conservationists continue to view the actor, famous for driving a gas-guzzling Hummer, with deep skepticism....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994354/posts

Schwarzenegger Apologizes For Behavior Toward Women

The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 3, 2003 | Jackie Calmes
Posted on 10/03/2003 5:19 AM PDT by calcowgirl

As Arnold Schwarzenegger rolls north through California on what was planned as a victory caravan to Tuesday's election, he will test whether new allegations of sexual harassment threaten his new front-runner status and his hard-won Republican Party unity.

The actor, now favored in polls to replace Democratic Gov. Gray Davis if he is ousted in the recall vote, condemned Thursday's Los Angeles Times article as "trash politics" and mostly untrue. Yet he apologized for his behavior, "which I thought then was playful but now I recognize that I offended people." ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994366/posts

Clinton's Hitler Comments

NewsMax ^
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:36 AM PDT by Republican Red

He did find it bothersome, however, that Bill Clinton had a deep fascination for Adolf Hitler and his book Mein Kampf.

Clinton’s interest in Hitler was not based on the fascist leader’s anti-Semitism, but the great leadership skills of Hitler, according to Patterson.

Clinton, Patterson remembered, was intrigued that Hitler "had so much power over these people and that it had just been a short period of time since World War I where they’d been defeated, and this man had come forward and had rallied the German people." ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994471/posts

Schwarzenegger's candor

The Orange County Register ^ | 10/03/03 | Stephen Greenhut
Posted on 10/03/2003 7:40 AM PDT by socal_parrot

Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan for his first 100 days in the governor's office might not have convinced some people that he is the right man for the job, but his response to last-minute "puke politics" certainly gave the impression that the actor has what it takes as a leader....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994474/posts

Actor's link to Hitler comment a hazy trail

The Chron ^ | 10/03/03 | Michael Taylor
Posted on 10/03/2003 8:24 AM PDT by socal_parrot

The allegations that Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler during the filming of "Pumping Iron" have been circulating since the actor announced his candidacy this summer, but the film's director, quoted by ABC News on Thursday, denied the story last month when contacted by The Chronicle.

ABC News and the New York Times obtained a copy of an unpublished book proposal by the film's producer and director, George Butler, that contained quotes allegedly made by Schwarzenegger in 1975 during an interview while making the movie.

In the book proposal, Schwarzenegger is quoted as saying, according to ABC News, "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it." Then Schwarzenegger supposedly adds, "like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium. And have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say."

Contacted by telephone on Sept. 11, however, Butler had said the story was "not true." ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994506/posts

Hell Hath Frozen Over . . .Estrich Disses L.A. Times . . . In L.A. Times!

Los Angeles Times ^ | 10/03/2003 | Susan Estrich
Posted on 10/03/2003 8:37 AM PDT by stayout

A Deplorable October Surprise
By Susan Estrich, Susan Estrich, a professor of law and political science at USC, is the author of "Sex and Power" (Riverside Press, 2001). She was national campaign manager for Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis

So this is the October surprise? The Los Angeles Times headline that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped and humiliated women?

None of the six women interviewed by The Times filed legal charges. Four of the six were quoted anonymously. Of the two who were named, one, a British television hostess, had told her story to Premiere magazine years ago, and it has been widely known and largely ignored. The other recounts an alleged incident of fondling at Gold's Gym nearly 30 years ago.

* * * [snip] * * *
What this story accomplishes is less an attack on Schwarzenegger than a smear on the press. It reaffirms everything that's wrong with the political process. Anonymous charges from years ago made in the closing days of a campaign undermine fair politics....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994515/posts

Schwarzenegger in focus

Sac Bee ^ | 10/3/03
Posted on 10/03/2003 9:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

Candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a field day castigating his rivals for being bought by special interests.

"Money comes in. Favors go out. The people lose," Schwarzenegger sneers in one of his campaign ads....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994546/posts

L.A. Times Touts Arnold Grope Report, Buried Clinton Assault News

NewsMax ^ | 10/2/03 | Carl Limbacher
Posted on 10/03/2003 9:45 AM PDT by South40

The Los Angeles Times decided Thursday that allegations from six women claiming that California gubernatorial front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them was front-page news.

But four years ago the paper could barely bring itself to report a far more serious rape accusation against then-President Bill Clinton – and later banned mention of the episode from its editorial page....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994552/posts

Grey Davis Attacked Female Aide; LA Times Knew, Reporter Says

American Reporter ^ | October 3, 2003 | Jill Stewart
Posted on 10/03/2003 9:59 AM PDT by mgfile

American Reporter Correspondant Jill Stewart then a writer for New Times Los Angeles revealed in 1997 that California Governor Grey Davis attacked aides, hurled vulgarities and ashtrays at them, and 'behaved badly' as Arnold Schwarznegger described his own behavior yesterday.

Moreover, Stewart, a former Los Angeles Times staff reporter, says editors there knew of those attacks from accounts provided to them by their own staff reporters, but none the less concealed those accounts-apprarently, even as it prepared an October 2 expose on sexual harassment invloving Schwartznegger.

The facts of her article were never disputed by Davis, who was then engaged in a bitter campaign for Governor against millionaire Republican businessman Al Checchi....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994567/posts

Fox News Reports on KABC "Snap Poll": Arnold gains 2% after apology.

Fox News | 10.3.2003 | DoctorZin
Posted on 10/03/2003 10:17 AM PDT by DoctorZIn

Fox News just reported on the KABC "snap poll" conducted after Arnold's apology.

They reported that 10% of those who were planning on voting for Arnold have now changed their minds and are voting for someone else.

But, 12% who were not planning on voting for Arnold prior to the apology have now decided to vote for Arnold.

This gives Arnold a 2% net boost in his support.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994576/posts

Support for Calif. Gov. Recall Growing, Poll Shows

Reuters ^ | 10/03/03 | Andrea Orr
Posted on 10/03/2003 10:25 AM PDT by kattracks

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Four days before the California recall election, voters were strongly in favor of removing Gov. Gray Davis from office and appeared poised to elect film star Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him, a Field Poll released on Friday showed.

The poll found that likely voters were planning to vote "yes" to recall Davis by a 57 percent to 39 percent margin. The poll also showed that Schwarzenegger, the Republican front-runner, was favored over the leading Democratic candidate Cruz Bustamante, by 36 percent to 26 percent.

The poll was based on a telephone survey of 1,535 adults, conducted from Sept. 25 to Wednesday and had an error margin of 3.4 percentage points....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994584/posts

Trading Up. The conservative case for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

NRO ^ | October 03, 2003, 11:21 a.m. | Stephen Moore
Posted on 10/03/2003 10:42 AM PDT by .cnI redruM

With the tumultuous California election just a few days away, several unassailable facts have emerged about this race that should help guide the decision-making of Golden State conservatives.

First, it should be self-evident to Californians of all political persuasions that for the good of the state, it is time for Gray Davis to go. The state simply cannot afford three more years of his high-tax, high-spend (the budget went up 38 percent in his first term), anti-business policies. The budget deficit he has created is now larger than that of the other 49 states combined....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994598/posts

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