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Schwarzenegger Comments About Legislator Revealed

California police are investigating the possible involvement of hackers in the release of a digital recording of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about a Hispanic legislator`s fiery temper. The California Highway Patrol`s high-tech crimes investigators are also suspicious of the recording, which was stored as an MP3 file on the governor`s officer server. The recording was said to be made during a speechwriting session last March.

The file was obtained by a newspaper in Los Angeles, which published a story about the governor`s comments last week. Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Marshall said to reporters, "We`ll look at the security overall, the whole security of the governor`s office computer system." The recording featured the governor and his chief of staff, Susan Kennedy, idly speculating about the ethnic background of state Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, R-Cathedral City.

Andrea Lynn Hoch, Schwarzenegger`s legal affairs secretary revealed that the audio file was downloaded on August 29 and 30, 2006. The recording reveals Schwarzenegger as saying, "They are all very hot. They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it." Schwarzenegger apologized for his remarks last Friday, saying he "cringed when he read them". Garcia however appeared to be least affected. She appeared by the governor`s side as he apologized.