"What about Clinton?" said Ella Romano, who was decorated from her sun visor to her tennis shoes in "Join Arnold" stickers. The 60-year-old mother of three daughters and grandmother of one, an independent voter, did not want to hear any "trash stories from the filthy press about Arnold and sex." "Arnold wasn't president when he supposedly did those things that women said he did," she said. "And it's all old garbage against him, anyway."
President Bill Clinton's name, joined, inevitably, with that of Monica S. Lewinsky, was brought up often this weekend by the actor's female supporters as they discussed the women -- 15 of them, as of today -- who told the Los Angeles Times that Schwarzenegger had groped their breasts or buttocks or otherwise sexually humiliated them over the past 25 years. Also uttered often was the name of Gov. Gray Davis, whom Schwarzenegger's female supporters accused of planting stories in the newspaper, despite the newspaper report's outright denial that the Davis campaign had done so. The women also repeatedly used the words "lies," "exaggerations" and "long time ago."
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