http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/17/2221530/scandal-would-have-kept-schwarzenegger.htmlScandal would have kept Schwarzenegger out of office, analysts say
By DAVID SIDERS AND SAM STANTON
McClatchy Newspapers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- For more than a decade, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger managed to keep secret the fact that he had fathered a child with a member of his household staff, misleading not only to his family, but also to millions of Californians who may not have elected him had they known.
Battered by years of fiscal problems, Schwarzenegger's public approval rating had dipped to 23 percent when he left office in January. On his final day in office, he shortened the manslaughter sentence for the son of his political friend Fabian Nunez, angering his shrunken pool of supporters. If that had not already ruled out any political future, observers said, his acknowledgment Tuesday almost surely did.
"This layered on top of the Nunez thing pretty much means his political future is done at this point," said Jeff Randle, a Republican strategist and former adviser to Schwarzenegger. In the months since leaving office, Schwarzenegger has traveled extensively in Europe and South America, negotiated movie and animated TV show deals, and been mentioned as a possible federal appointee...
It was Shriver who defended her movie star husband against accusations he groped women late in his 2003 campaign, a defense that friend Barbara O'Connor said Shriver would not have provided had she known. Political advisers who worked for Schwarzenegger during his campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 said they were unaware of the child and acknowledged it would have made the campaign more difficult, if not impossible. When faced with allegations from multiple women in the days before the recall election, Schwarzenegger denied them all and finally said he had "behaved badly sometimes."...
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