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Here's a snippet from the WSJ Opinion Journal
http://www.opinionjournal.com
which suggests the last-minute timing on the allegations against
Arnold; the political operatives had to time it so the alleged Grey
Davis assaults on women didn't come out before Election Day.

Living next to California, who needs a laugh track?

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And what's good for the L.A. Times is good for the L.A. Daily News, 
which over the weekend published an op-ed by  Jill Stewart  
http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%7E24781%7E1676763,00.html 
who asks why the Times hasn't subjected the governor to a similar 
investigation: "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." 
 
Stewart recounts her own reporting on Davis, which appeared in 1997 in
the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles: 
 
*** QUOTE *** 
 
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. . . . 
 
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!' " 
 
*** END QUOTE ***
 
Stewart writes that while she was researching the New Times story 
(which is reproduced  here 
http://www.american-reporter.com/2,195/1.html ),
she "crossed paths" with L.A. Times reporters looking into the same 
allegations. But the Old Times never published the story. "When I
spoke to
a reporter involved," Stewart recounts, "he said editors at the Times 
were against attacking a major political figure using anonymous
sources.
Just what they did last week to Schwarzenegger." The Times may turn
out
to have done more damage to its own reputation than to 
Schwarzenegger's. 
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