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Schwarzenegger Changes Mind About Probe Into Groping Allegations
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Posted on 12/10/2003 7:11:32 AM PST by chance33_98

Schwarzenegger Changes Mind About Probe Into Groping Allegations

In an about-face, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said there will not be a private investigation into groping allegations made against him.

That announcement came the same day Hollywood stuntwoman Rhonda Miller filed a lawsuit against Schwarzenegger and a member of his campaign staff for defamation.

During the final days of his campaign for governor, Schwarzenegger said he would hire a private investigator to look into accusations that he groped as many as 16 women over the past three decades.

According to aides, Schwarzenegger now feels he is too busy trying to solve the budget deficit and he doubts a private investigation would make his critics happy.

The defamation charge stems from an alleged retaliatory incident after Miller went public with an allegation that Schwarzenegger groped her during the time she worked as a stuntwoman on the films "True Lies" and "Terminator 2." Almost immediately, the media began reporting that Miller had been convicted of several serious crimes.

The information on Miller was distributed by the Schwarzenegger campaign, which directed reporters to go to the Los Angeles Superior Court website and type the name "Rhonda Miller" into the search engine there. The search produced court records showing that a woman named Rhonda Miller had a long criminal record.

The records, as it turned out, were for a different Rhonda Miller. The Rhonda Miller who leveled allegations at Schwarzenegger has never been arrested.

Miller and her attorneys claim the Schwarzenegger campaign knowingly misdirected reporters in an effort to discredit her. The suit filed against the governor seeks unspecified monetary damages.


TOPICS: Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: calgov2002; groper; rhondamiller; schwarzenegger

1 posted on 12/10/2003 7:11:34 AM PST by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
Miller and her attorneys claim the Schwarzenegger campaign knowingly misdirected reporters in an effort to discredit her.

The woman and her lawyers assume that reporters have no responsibility for verifying their own sources, I see. Wonder which media outlet is in their pocket?

Prairie

2 posted on 12/10/2003 7:16:19 AM PST by prairiebreeze (President George W. Bush....most assuredly, MY President!)
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To: chance33_98
3 years of this circus is what California voted for, dammit!
3 posted on 12/10/2003 7:17:43 AM PST by thoughtomator (The U.N. is a terrorist organization)
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To: chance33_98
Now they are suggesting that men abandon the time honored Hollywood tradition of groping - what is next?
4 posted on 12/10/2003 7:24:01 AM PST by ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds
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To: thoughtomator
3 years of this circus is what California voted for, dammit!

You're right. We'd have been much better off had bustaMechA won.

5 posted on 12/10/2003 7:33:45 AM PST by South40 (My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)
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To: chance33_98
Neglected in this thorough presentation (heh heh), was that this information was first lofted by the Los Angeles Times. I note the lawyer didn't go after them. Just an oversight I'm sure.
6 posted on 12/10/2003 7:45:01 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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