California Conservative

Cathy Calfo, the campaign manager for Democrat candidate for Governor Phil Angelides, has accepted responsibility for leaking a tape of Governor Schwarzenegger referring to the ethnicity of friend and political colleague Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia as “hot.”

According to ABC news,

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.

Statements by members of the Schwarzenegger campaign admonish that the sound clip was not publicly accessible, but rather in a password protected-protected area of the Governor’s computer

“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,” [Schwarzenegger spokesman Adam Mendelsohn] said.

Prior to release of this news, the California Highway Patrol has already begun investigating possible hacking of the Governors computer.

Cross-posted at The Gentle Cricket

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