Early in September, George F. Will reported on a predicted "late hit" by Gray Davis in the California recall election. At the time, I said "Let's file this one away and compare notes once the recall election is finished next month." Well, we didn't have to wait quite that long. Way to go, George.
At the kick off to his four-day bus tour of California, Schwarzenegger responded to an article in the The Los Angeles Times, which quoted four women anonymously and two by name who claim Schwarzenegger groped and harassed them on movie sets and elsewhere over the past three decades."Yes, it is true that I was on rowdy movie sets and I have done things that were not right, which I thought then was playful but now I recognize that I have offended people," he said to supporters at the San Diego Convention Center before the start of the bus tour. "And to those people I have offended, I want to say to them, I am deeply sorry about that and I apologize because this is not what I am trying to do.
"When I am governor, I want to prove to the women that I will be the champion for the women, and I hope you will give me the chance to prove it."
via the Mercury News
Hard to imagine that California voters have thought they were electing a saint, but it's impossible to predict what effect this will have and how this election is going to turn out. ALL the pre-election polls could turn out to be wrong.
Posted by Alan at October 2, 2003 05:22 PM