SharedThought

If there is any hope to keep the State of California out of the hands of an inexperienced puppet administrator with stars in his eyes and no plan in his pocket, a man without respect for women, please send this article, or the link to it, to all your California friends today. Hopefully they will see the light.
I am copying a couple quotes just to illustrate a point.

“Am I sorry? Of course. If I did the things that they said I did. Am I sorry, do I apologize? Yes. But it is time to get on and not look back,” he said on the CBS news show.

“I will say most of it is not true,” he said during a school tour as children waited in droves to see him. “Other things may be true, and in case it’s true, I apologize.”

Sound familiar? The first is not a quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger, however. That was former Senator Robert Packwood of Oregon, in 1995, commenting at the time of his resignation from the US Senate after a vote for his expulsion on sexual harassment allegations by the Ethics Committee. The link:
http://www.texasonline.net/langley/columns/packwood.htm
The second was Mr. Schwarzenegger this past week, commenting on allegations of similar behavior, to which he admitted committing, that have surfaced in the closing days of the recall election campaign. (See link below)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/03/MN246826.DTL

If Mr. Packwood’s actions were sufficient for him to be expelled from the US Senate, what would qualify a man with the same character and no experience in politics to be our elected governor? I heard it expressed succinctly this morning on the radio, comparing Mr. Schwarzenegger’s exploits to a game of cat and mouse.
The cat and mouse have quite different perspectives on the game.
Have we sunk so low as to prefer a sexual batterer in office? If you doubt the allegations, I ask you this: What is truly in it for women who come out with their accounts? (Rhetorical question)
Different is not always better. Let us not go from bad to worse. Arnold the Governator is a sequel the State of California does not need.

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