FLASHBACK: Oct 2007 - Schwarzenegger vetoes California marriage equality bill for the second timeSchwarzenegger vetoes same-sex marriage bill again
State court plans to examine legality of 2000 measureOctober 13, 2007|By Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a same-sex marriage bill Friday, the second time in three years that such a measure died on the governor's desk. Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill in 2005.
"I support current domestic partnership rights and will continue to vigorously defend and enforce these rights," the governor said in a statement Friday.
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The vetoed measure, AB43, was the third try by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, to create a gender-neutral marriage bill. The act would have amended state law to define marriage as a civil contract between two persons.
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"He chose to fail his opportunity for greatness," Leno said.
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FLASHBACK: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron’s Key Lay Before the California Recall13. Schwarzenegger Met with Enron’s Key Lay Before the California Recall
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But those publications failed to put the timing of the meeting into context. Had they done so, it may have saved Gray Davis’ job. If they dug a little deeper, they would have found that while Schwarzenegger listened to Lay’s pitch on why California shouldn’t abandon deregulation, one energy company was nailed by federal energy regulators for shutting down it’s power plants to create an artificial shortage and boost wholesale prices in the state.
The discovery, however, was kept secret by federal energy regulators so Vice President Dick Cheney could release his National Energy Policy in May 2001. Had federal energy regulators released the evidence of the manipulation that took place in California it would have certainly derailed Cheney’s energy policy since it called for deregulating energy markets nationwide.
However, while Schwarzenegger shook hands with Ken Lay, former Gov. Gray Davis was lobbying President Bush and Cheney for price controls on soaring electricity prices. Bush and Cheney publicly blamed Davis for the crisis, saying he was too slow to act and dismissed his claims about an energy cartel manipulating the state’s power market. That, in part, skewed public opinion and left many in the state thinking that the crisis was Davis’s fault.
But, two years later, following Enron’s bankruptcy, evidence emerged proving Davis was right. Energy companies were manipulating the market and were responsible for skyrocketing prices and blackouts. After I connected the dots, showing how Schwarzenegger allowed himself to be courted by Lay, I asked him about the meeting at the Peninsula. Schwarzenegger said he didn’t remember.
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FLASHBACK: Schwarzenegger Accused Of Sexual Harrassment By Multiple WomenThe LA Times has published multiple stories of different women that Arnold has harassed. In one case, whilst on the set of Terminator 2 he approached a female crew member out of the blue, put his hands into her blouse and pulled her breasts out of her bra. An observer said: "I couldn't believe what I was seeing. This woman's nipples were exposed, and here's Arnold and a few of his clones laughing." The woman in question broke into tears and fled to a nearby trailer. See 'Arnold the Barbarian", an article by Premiere Magazine in March 2001, for more revelations, should you be able to stomach it.
In Nov. 2000, he pulled British TV commentator Anna Richardson onto his lap after an interview, grabbed her breast, and squeezed her nipple -- all without any kind of permission. She stood up and told him "You' re making me nervous." But Arnold told her to relax and pulled her back on his knee. Finally, he let her up, patting her behind as she went off. Richardson has since has filed a libel action .
Last year The London Guardian reported the story of a woman who once worked with him who has alleged that, one day on set, she went to fetch Schwarzenegger from his trailer when a shot became possible earlier than expected, only to discover him performing oral sex on a woman she didn't recognize. He looked up and explained: "Eating isn't cheating."
Schwarzenegger dropped out of the California governor's race in 2001, a day after he learned the National Enquirer was running a story about an alleged affair with a 41 year old brunette. More damning, however, was that this appears to have been a longterm affair with statutory rape -- she was 16 when he first had sex with her -- he was 28 at the time. The two supposedly became lovers again in 1989 and continued to see each other until 1996, when she fell in love with another man.
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