California Election 2006 Watch: Angelides Campaign Admits Schwarzenegger LEAK

Cathy Calfo, campaign manager for Democratic gubernatorial candidate, state Treasurer Phil Angelides responds to a question concerning audio tapes of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006. Calfo acknowledged that the Angelides campaign had downloaded an audio file of a private meeting in which the governor remarked on a Hispanic legislator’s fiery temperament. Calfo went on to say that the campaign had done nothing wrong because the file was available publicly on the governor’s Web site.

AP: Rival admits leaking Schwarzenegger tape

The campaign of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Democratic rival acknowledged Tuesday that it downloaded — and leaked to the media — a recording of a private meeting in which the governor described a Hispanic legislator as having a “very hot” personality.

But Cathy Calfo, campaign manager for Democrat Phil Angelides, said the campaign had done nothing wrong because the file was available publicly on the governor’s Web site.

“No one hacked,” Calfo said at a news conference to address the role played by the Angelides campaign, first reported by The Sacramento Bee. “They accessed information that was available to the public.”

Schwarzenegger spokesman Adam Mendelsohn said someone would have had to snoop to find the audio file.

“The file that was leaked to the Los Angeles Times was in a private area of the governor’s server not accessible to the public without manipulation of information,” he said.

Phil Angelides has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. The Flap amounted to not much but this revelation on how Angelides’ staff HACKED the Governor’s website will SINK his campaign like a stone.

Flap hears the FAT LADY singing the final chorus on this race.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger listens while California Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, R-Palm Springs, left, talks about tape-recorded comments the governor made about her at a news conference in Santa Monica, Calif., Friday, Sept. 8, 2006. Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying during a closed-door meeting that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of ‘black blood’ and ‘Latino blood.’ Garcia said she was not offended by the governor’s comments. Garcia earlier told the Los Angeles Times that she often calls herself a ‘hot-blooded Latina.’

So, Flap wants to know……was it Bob Mulholland behind this leak HACK?

Update:

MM comments on who REALLY looks STUPID here – THE LOS ANGELES TIMES.

You know who else looks stupid here? The Los Angeles Times. Nice going, tools.

Can you imagine the LATimes editors accepting a leaked tape from GOP operatives and splashing its contents all over the front page in a last-ditch attempt to humiliate a Democrat governor?

Bias? What liberal bias?

INDEED….

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