Arnold Accuser Coached by Davis Operative

Though California Gov. Gray Davis says his campaign has nothing to do with stories painting Arnold Schwarzenegger as a serial groper, at least one of Schwarzenegger's female accusers was coached to come forward by a Democratic Party operative who worked closely with Davis and who is also a friend of Democratic dirt digger Bob Mullholland.

On Friday Colette Brooks said that when she was an intern at CNN in 1981, Schwarzenegger grabbed her backside while she was escorting him onto the set of a TV talk show.

Brooks acknowledged that she came forward to the Los Angeles Times at the request of Jodie Evans, a member of the Code Pink women's activist group that has engaged in an intense campaign accusing Schwarzenegger of mistreating women, according to Scripps Howard News Service.

But according to the L A Weekly, Ms. Evans "is actually a former close colleague of Gov. Gray Davis, a longtime Democratic operative and a friend of noted Democratic hit man Bob Mulholland.

"Evans is also the ex-wife of Westside financier Max Palevsky, the man who gave Gray Davis his first job in politics as the fund-raiser in Tom Bradley’s 1973 mayoral campaign."

Asked why the Los Angeles Times didn't explain to its readers Ms. Evans association with Gov. Davis when it printed Ms. Brooks' charges, Times columnist George Skelton told the LA Weekly, "Maybe the reporters and editors just didn’t know."

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