[lbo-talk] Re: recall, camejo vote

[Joseph Wanzala]

It was indeed one of the more sinister aspects of the elevation of Arnold to 
the Governorship that the fairly well documented charges of his latent 
neo-Nazi tendencies as well as racism, as well as the charges of sexual 
battery did nothing to faze his supporters. I don't know why Mr. Scott finds 
these charges 'ridiculous'. He did little to dispute them, offering only 
statements like 'I don't remember' and 'apologizing' while denying that they 
'we're all true'. His popularity, even among women voters says as much about 
the consciousness of California voters as it does about Arnold himself. 
Ironically, Susan Estrich one of Bill 'Supreme Groper' Clinton's stalwart 
defenders, said on Fox about Arnold 'so what if he grabbed a little booty' 
and (she is now on Arnold transition team) :-

"Law Professor and Political Analyst Susan Estrich writes in her LA Times 
column today that the groping allegations against Arnold are (1) no big deal 
(2) come too late to make a difference (3) amount to a dirty tricks campaign 
and (4) should not have been published by the LA Times.

As a professor of sex discrimination law for two decades and an expert on 
sexual harassment, I certainly don't condone the unwanted touching of women 
that was apparently involved here. But these acts do not appear to 
constitute any crime, such as rape or sodomy or even assault or battery. As 
for civil law, sexual harassment requires more than a single case of 
unwelcome touching; there must be either a threat or promise of sex in 
exchange for a job benefit or demotion, or the hostile environment must be 
severe and pervasive.

But none of these women, as The Times emphasizes, ever came forward to 
complain. The newspaper went looking for them, and then waited until five 
days before the election to tell the fragments of the story. 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.

...Is this the worst they could come up with? Ho-hum."

Joe W.


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: recall, camejo vote
>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:12:16 -0400
>
>frank scott wrote:
>
>>kpfa's morning show, amy goodman,  and most commentators on the station
>>all were purveying the dem party line about the sex-fiend-nazi, carrying
>>ridiculous tales of his hitler worship, and entertaining far fetched
>>views that found - according to one woman - that maria shriver was a
>>"victim" of the groper...
>
>The Hitler stuff comes from Arnie himself - how he admires the guy, etc. 
>And the groping stories come from a lot of women. Arnie's own wife was 
>quoted as saying he'd leave her if she were raped because she'd be damaged 
>goods. The guy's a sexist authoritarian pig. Why do you want to deny that?
>
>Doug
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