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Schwarzenegger admits bad behavior
The hopeful in California’s
recall election apologizes
for inappropriate advances
he made toward women
By John Simerman
Knight Ridder Newspapers(KRT)
SAN DIEGO - California guberna
torial candidate Arnold Schwarzeneg
ger apologized Thursday for behaving
"badly" with women on movie sets
and elsewhere after a published report
renewed controversy over his notori
ous past as a womanizer.
The Los Angeles Times reported
Thursday that six women said
Schwarzenegger had fondled their
breasts or buttocks and made inap
propriate sexual comments at vari
ous times since 1970 and as recently
as 2000. Four of the women spoke
on condition they not be named,
saying they feared retaliation or hu
miliation if identified.
The Republican front-runner in
Tuesday's election over whether to re
call Democratic Gov. Gray Davis apol
ogized as he spoke before a campaign
rally of some 2,000 supporters.
"A lot of those that you see in the
stories is not true," Schwarzenegger
told the cheering crowd. "But at the
same time, I have to tell you that 1 al
ways say, that wherever there is
smoke, there is fire. That is true."
The cheering quieted.
"What 1 want to say to you is yes,
that I have behaved badly some
times. Yes, it's true that it has oc
curred on movie sets and that 1 have
done things that were bad because I
thought that was playful. Now I rec
ognize that I offended people,"
he said.
"And to those people that I offend
ed, 1 want to say to them, 1 am deeply
sorry about that and 1 apologize.
...When I'm governor, I want to prove
to the women that I will be a champi
on for the women."
This was the second major reve
lation of Schwarzenegger's past sex
ual behavior to shake his cam
paign. Earlier, news reports
disclosed a 1977 interview he gave
Oui magazine in which he had
boasted of having group sex with
one woman. When the interview
surfaced, Schwarzenegger first said
he couldn't recall the incident, then
said he'd made it up.
It wasn't immediately clear how the
new report of his past sexual misbe
havior and his admission would affect
his bid to become governor.
"It's absolutely another element" in
the recall race, said political scientist
Larry Gerston, of San Jose State Uni
versity. "The question is, as we say in
this business, does it have legs? I guess
we're going to know in 24 hours."
The California Democratic Party's
political director criticized
Schwarzenegger's campaign for previ
ously denying such allegations.
"If a bank robber apologizes, we
don't let him go," Bob Mulhol
land said.
"Schwarzenegger should be held
accountable. He's a serial groper."
California Republican Party
spokesman Mike Wintemute dis
missed the allegations as a political
ploy, saying it's unlikely that the al
leged behavior was serious because
the women hadn't filed complaints.
"He's apologized ... and that's
something women voters are going
to have to consider for themselves,"
Wintemute said. "I think people
look at their public officials and can
didates through the lens of what is
important in their lives at a specific
point in time. I think in the final
analysis, people will look past
this issue."
Most female voters - 56 percent in
the latest Los Angeles Times poll -
have a favorable opinion of
Schwarzenegger, said Susan Pinkus,
the newspaper's pollster.
"Will this change their feelings
about him? I think it depends on
how much notoriety the story gets,"
she said.
The allegations did not faze
Schwarzenegger supporter Carol
Ayres, a retired teacher from Carlsbad,
Calif., who said she recently shifted
her support from Republican state
Sen. Tom McClintock because she
thought the actor was the Republican
Party's best hope.
"1 really just don't believe it until
someone proves it," she said. "1 knew
there was going to be a lot of trash. It's
part of the smear."
The allegations could hurt
Schwarzenegger's credibility sub
stantially, Gerston said, especially if
more allegations surface before the
Oct. 7 election.
"If I'm in the Schwarzenegger
camp, I've got my fingers crossed, my
toes crossed, everything 1 can
crossed," Gerston said.
c) 2003, Knight Ridder/tribune
Information Services. Knight Ridder
Newspapers correspondents Dogen
Hannah, Matt Krupnick and Andrew
LaMar contributed to this report.
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Momiyama said he's planning a
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