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Yesterday Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a number of changes in key senior positions in his administrations. A number of them represent great moves, and a few of them are, frankly very disturbing. Let's start with the great news! First and foremost, the Governor's elevation of conservative Dan Dunmoyer to the position of Cabinet Secretary is outstanding news for all of us. Dan is capable, smart and effective. In this key position which acts as a liaison and coordinator between the Governor and all of the Agency heads will be in good hands. Undoubtedly this will be a big relief for former...

As Governor Schwarzenegger prepares for a second term in office, he's bringing in a few new faces and shuffling some of the current folks to new positions. Dan Dunmoyer becomes the governor's new Cabinet Secretary, the main liaison between Schwarzenegger's inner circle and the myriad of state agencies. Dunmoyer, who has been on the governor's staff for the past year, is best known in Capitol circles as the former head of the Personal Insurance Federation of California-- the lobbying association of the "property-casualty" insurance industry. Dunmoyer becomes Governor Schwarzenegger's fourth Cabinet secretary in the past three years. Meantime, the governor's...

LOS ANGELES Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger settled a libel lawsuit Friday with a former late-night British TV personality who claimed she was groped by the Hollywood actor during a 2000 interview and later defamed by his aides during his 2003 campaign for governor. "The parties are content to put this matter behind them and are pleased that this legal dispute has now been settled," said a two-sentence statement issued jointly in London by lawyers for Schwarzenegger and Anna Richardson. No details were released. The statement said Richardson and the three people she sued the governor and two top aides, Sean Walsh...

SACRAMENTO - Longtime Republican strategist Sean Walsh was appointed Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as director of the governor's Office of Planning and Research. Walsh, 41, is a former member of Gov. Pete Wilson's staff who played a key role advising Schwarzenegger during the 2003 recall election. Most recently Walsh ran his own government relations firm in Oakland and worked for former Secretary of State Bill Jones in his unsuccessful 2004 U.S. Senate campaign. The Office of Planning and Research advises the governor on land use and local government issues and provides support on research of legislative issues. The position...

<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign aides say they believed that a woman suing him for defamation really was a prostitute and drug addict when they suggested to reporters that she had a history of felony convictions, court documents in the case show.</p>

<p>Shortly after she became the 16th woman to say Arnold Schwarzenegger had groped, fondled or otherwise sexually harried her, Rhonda Miller was gang raped by politics.</p> <p>Lawyer Gloria Allred tells the story this way. She got a call from Miller, a 53-year-old stunt double who worked on two of Schwarzenegger's films. Miller told Allred that Schwarzenegger had pulled up her shirt and snapped a photo of her breasts and had groped her during the filming of two of his movies.</p>

Schwarzenegger's strange campaign behavior Posted: October 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempts to shape his media profile on the talk-show circuit instead of in debates have hurt his credibility, critics say. This week, the California gubernatorial candidate played to vastly different crowds, accepting an endorsement from shock-jock Howard Stern – who asked his position on lap dancing – and later fielding queries from CNN talk-show host Larry King. Ladies and gentlemen, who on earth is arranging AH-Nold's appearances? And does this man who wants to be governor realize that Howard...

There has been not a little controversy about an unguarded remark by Arnold Schwarzenegger, to the effect that some supporters of California's Proposition #54, the Racial Privacy Initiative, are "right wing crazies." Schwarzenegger's comment was first reported in The National Review, not generally known as a left wing publication... Schwarzenegger was questioned about Prop 54, the Ward Connerly-spearheaded measure that would make it illegal for governmental agencies to collect racial statistics on the population, with some prudent exceptions. This is the Racial Privacy Initiative. Schwarzenegger said, "I'm against it. It looks good on the surface, but when you study it...

<p>Former director of communications says attacking Davis on ethics wasn't enough.</p> <p>SACRAMENTO – An insider in Bill Simon's failed gubernatorial campaign said strategists were bitterly divided, and that Simon wound up attacking Gov. Gray Davis' ethics rather than the issue their own surveys showed was far more important to voters - the energy crisis.</p>