Governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to hire private investigators to go after those who came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct during his campaign.
Statements like he's going to turn over their results to state Attorney-General Bill Lockyer are disingenuous. He seems to be oblivious to the fact that a governor cannot hire his own thugs for investigations into illegalities -- especially his own illegalities. It is a corrupt practice, because PIs do not promise to protect the rights of the victims of the potential crimes, they protect the interests -- regardless of how sordid that interest is -- of the client.
That he could conceive that hiring PIs to investigate his accusers would be a good idea -- and not a corrupt one -- drives home the difference between a public-minded politician and an egotist of an ex-actor, and that voters in California don't seem to care about the difference.
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