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To: KLP who wrote (8617)	9/19/2003 9:08:55 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793689

Horray for Hollywood! THE CBS WRAP L.A. Confidential: The Los Angeles Times reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger has required his campaign staffers to sign a confidentiality agreement, long a Hollywood staple but rarely seen in political campaigns. The agreement would require staffers who reveal "information and items relating to or concerning (a) Arnold Schwarzenegger and his family, friends, associates and employees (collectively, "Related Parties"); (b) private and confidential matters concerning Employer or any Related Parties; (c) financial, business, medical, legal, personal and contractual matters and (d) any letter, memorandum, contract, photograph, film or other document or writing pertaining in any way to Employer or any Related Parties." In case that did not scare staffers enough, the Times reports that the agreement also bars staffers from taking "any photographs, movies, videos" or making "any sketches, depictions or other likenesses of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Arnold Schwarzenegger’s family, friends, associates or employees." The agreement not to "publish, disseminate, disclose or cause to be published, disseminated or disclosed" continues "during or after" the staff member’s employment. Break the agreement and you pay a $50,000 fine for each "violation." Of course, the Times could not get the campaign to comment on the confidentiality agreement on the record since the very existence of the confidentiality agreement is, well, confidential. A senior campaign official did tell the Times: "It’s standard operating procedure, considering the celebrity nature of the candidate. This is someone who has had people around him who have repeatedly tried to profit off of him."