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Don't let Ahhhnuld off the hook!
It has disturbed me for a while now that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has gotten off the hook after 16 different women accused him of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
It has disturbed me that before he was elected in the dirty, Republican-orchestrated gubernatorial recall election in October, Ahhhnuld promised us Californians that there would be an investigation into the women's allegations (after the election, of course). After the election, however, Herr Gropenfuhrer pronounced that there would be no such investigation, calling the allegations against him "old news."
Schwarzenegger is treating the matter as though it is to be decided by a high-school popularity contest.
In a Feb. 28 story titled "Lack of Concern Daunts Women," The Sacramento Bee reports:
Tamee Smith said she carefully weighed the potential impact on her husband's film career before saying publicly last fall that Arnold Schwarzenegger grabbed her breast in a movie producer's office nearly two decades ago.
Linnea Harwell said she ultimately decided it was her duty to tell California voters before the Oct. 7 recall election that he made unwanted sexual advances toward her in 1998. She said she believed she owed it to women whose movie industry jobs prevented them from doing so.
But 100-plus days after California voters swept Schwarzenegger into the governor's office, some of the women who stepped forward now question whether their personal disclosures were worth the public scrutiny they evoked. Others are dismayed by what they see as the public's apparent lack of interest in underlying questions they sought to raise about Schwarzenegger's behavior with women.
Their debate is especially pointed this week in the wake of a Schwarzenegger attorney's move to dismiss a defamation suit brought by one of the women. The action followed release of a Field Poll that showed 81 percent of California voters say the governor's past behavior toward women has "no effect" on their view of his ability to perform in office.
The Republican governor said this week he was "happy to hear" about the poll results.
"I think the people have spoken," he said.
(Read the full Sacramento Bee story here.)
Memo to our dumb-jock governor: A popularity poll does not absolve you of serious criminal allegations. It doesn't matter if 99.9 percent of California voters say that the serious allegations against you -- which have yet to be investigated because you have obstructed justice through your shameless stonewalling -- have no effect on their view of your ability to perform in office. Either you are at least partially guilty of what 16 women have accused you or you are not. While you have publicly implied that some or all of the 16 women are liars, I highly doubt that that is the case.
For the most part, the corporately controlled mainstream media have given Schwarzenegger a free pass over the sexual-misconduct allegations and his blatantly broken campaign promise of an investigation into the allegations. Consequently, the general California public doesn't seem all that concerned, either.
"Our society doesn't seem to care anymore, and I think that's sad," the Bee quotes one of Ahhhnuld's alleged victims as having said. "Since about half the people in California happen to be women, and he has demonstrated a long history of demeaning women, one would think that would be important. Apparently, the celebrity is more important."
I have to wonder if it's more than just apathy, if perhaps the media and the general California public are as intimidated by Schwarzenegger as were the women he reportedly sexually harassed and sexually assaulted.
I'm one Californian who isn't afraid of the blowhard Schwarzenegger, and I want to keep the fact that he has been held unaccountable for serious criminal allegations in the limelight.
You can help.
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Let's keep the pressure on Guv Ahhhnuld. Remember what the Republicans did to President Bill Clinton for having had consensual sex. Why should Arnold Schwarzenegger get off the hook for apparently having sexually forced himself on a number of women over a period of several years?
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