Good and Bad Coverage for Arnold Today
Arnold got some good and bad coverage today. On the positive side, his former boxing trainer described how as a teenager, Arnold helped break up neo-Nazi gatherings.
Trainer Kurt Marnul told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that Schwarzenegger was "filled with rage against the Nazi regime" and took part at least twice in organized disruptions of neo-Nazi gatherings in the southern Austrian city of Graz during the 1960s.
....On Friday, the Austrian magazine NU, which caters to the alpine nation's Jewish community, quoted former politician Alfred Gerstl as describing how Schwarzenegger once "hunted down" neo-Nazis who had gathered outside a teaching institute run by an avowed anti-fascist.
On the negative side, Arnold lost the endorsement of the Oakland Tribune. And three more women have come forward with reports of past groping on movie sets. Two of the complaints pertain to the filming of the movie Twins. Arnold denies the charges, and several involved in the film, including the director, Ivan Reitman, back him up.
"I was on the set all the time and it was one of the friendliest shoots I've ever been on," said Reitman, who has known Schwarzenegger for 15 years and recently held a campaign fund-raiser for him. "No raunchy stuff. People's families were there. "Nothing even approximating what you're saying happened. I would have heard something," he said.
If enough people votes no on the recall, there will be no Arnold issue. We still refuse to endorse a replacement candidate. Vote no on the recall, and no on Prop. 54.
Update: The Times of London has this amusingly written editorial about Arnold.
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