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Posted on 10/06/2003 10:52:28 AM PDT by kattracks
Though California Gov. Gray Davis says his campaign has nothing to do with stories painting Arnold Schwarzenegger as a serial groper, at least one of Schwarzenegger's female accusers was coached to come forward by a Democratic Party operative who worked closely with Davis and who is also a friend of Democratic dirt digger Bob Mullholland.
On Friday Colette Brooks said that when she was an intern at CNN in 1981, Schwarzenegger grabbed her backside while she was escorting him onto the set of a TV talk show.
Brooks acknowledged that she came forward to the Los Angeles Times at the request of Jodie Evans, a member of the Code Pink women's activist group that has engaged in an intense campaign accusing Schwarzenegger of mistreating women, according to Scripps Howard News Service.
But according to the L A Weekly, Ms. Evans "is actually a former close colleague of Gov. Gray Davis, a longtime Democratic operative and a friend of noted Democratic hit man Bob Mulholland.
"Evans is also the ex-wife of Westside financier Max Palevsky, the man who gave Gray Davis his first job in politics as the fund-raiser in Tom Bradley’s 1973 mayoral campaign."
Asked why the Los Angeles Times didn't explain to its readers Ms. Evans association with Gov. Davis when it printed Ms. Brooks' charges, Times columnist George Skelton told the LA Weekly, "Maybe the reporters and editors just didn’t know."
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| Brooks acknowledged that she came forward to the Los Angeles Times at the request of Jodie Evans, a member of the Code Pink women's activist group that has engaged in an intense campaign accusing Schwarzenegger of mistreating women, according to Scripps Howard News Service. But according to the L A Weekly, Ms. Evans "is actually a former close colleague of Gov. Gray Davis, a longtime Democratic operative and a friend of noted Democratic hit man Bob Mulholland. "Evans is also the ex-wife of Westside financier Max Palevsky, the man who gave Gray Davis his first job in politics as the fund-raiser in Tom Bradley's 1973 mayoral campaign."
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Since at least 1997, the Times has been sitting on information that Gov. Gray Davis is an "office batterer" who has attacked female members of his staff, thrown objects at subservients and launched into red-faced fits, screaming the f-word until staffers cower. I published a lengthy article on Davis and his bizarre dual personality at the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles on Nov. 27, 1997, as well as several articles with similar information later on.
The Times was onto the story, too, and we crossed paths. My article, headlined "Closet Wacko Vs. Mega Fibber," detailed how Davis flew into a rage one day because female staffers had rearranged framed artwork on the walls of his office. He so violently shoved his loyal, 62-year-old secretary out of a doorway that she suffered a breakdown and refused to ever work in the same room with him. She worked at home, in an arrangement with state officials, then worked in a separate area where she was promised Davis would not go. She finally transferred to another job, desperate to avoid him. He left a message on her phone machine. Not an apology. Just a request that she resume work, with the comment, "You know how I am." Another woman, a policy analyst, had the unhappy chore in the mid-1990s of informing Davis that a fund-raising source had dried up. When she told Davis, she recounted, Davis began screaming the f-word at the top of his lungs.
The woman stood to demand that he stop speaking that way, and, she says, Davis grabbed her by her shoulders and "shook me until my teeth rattled. I was so stunned I said, 'Good God, Gray! Stop and look at what you are doing. Think what you are doing to me!"' After my story ran, I waited for the Times to publish its story. It never did. When I spoke to a reporter involved, he said editors at the Times were against attacking a major political figure using anonymous sources. Just what they did last week to Schwarzenegger. Weeks ago, Times editors sent two teams of reporters to dig dirt on Schwarzenegger, one on his admitted use of steroids as a bodybuilder, one on the old charges of groping women from Premiere Magazine. Who did the editors assign, weeks ago, to investigate Davis' violence against women who work for him? Nobody. The paper's protection of Davis is proof, on its face, of gross bias. If Schwarzenegger is elected governor, it should be no surprise if Times reporters judge him far more harshly than they ever judged Davis.
Jill Stewart is a print, radio and television commentator on California politics. She can be reached via her Web site, www.jillstewart.net
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