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California's political world is alternating between uncontrollable laughing this morning and just a kind of awed shock.
Can America's kinkiest Governor also be America's most corrupt?
Peter Nicholas and Carla Hall in the LA Times report that Arnold's one-time employer The National Enquirere aka American Media paid his former masseuse Gigi Goyette $20k to clam up about her seven-year history of 'outercourse' with the Governor.
Serious issues are raised, in case you can't tell by how defensive Schwarzenegger's mouthpieces are:
"Rob Stutzman, the governor's communications director, said he believed Schwarzenegger did not know of American Media's deals with the women. Schwarzenegger is on vacation and not available for comment, Stutzman said.
"Stutzman denied any link between AMI's deal with Schwarzenegger and the company's agreements with the two women....
"AMI systematically bought the silence" of the women, said the {story's source}. Schwarzenegger "was a de facto employee and he was important to their bottom line."
Schwarzenegger didn't know that The Enquirer was buying off his women? What??
Serious issues, but also you gotta laugh. I'll let Steve Lopez also with the Times take it from here:
"The thing in today's story that jumped out at me was the word "outercourse," a term with which I was sadly unfamiliar. Former TV extra and commercial actress Goyette told author Laurence Leamer that she and Arnold were involved for several years and had what she called " 'outercourse' because it's like foreplay."
"Gigi Goyette.
"It's such a gift I feel like I should donate half my salary to charity....
"But getting back to Schwarzenegger, the man has to be credited for having the savvy to go into business with a publishing company that might have had great fun with racy allegations about the actor turned politician. Publishing mogul David Pecker -- I wouldn't make up such a name, would I? -- told journalists the Enquirer had no intention of rehashing old gossip. "
I would like to point out that these kind of crazy hijinks makes being a progressive activist fun, too. With any luck, this will be one more monkey wrench in Schwarzenegger's extending more corporate control over California.