Saturday, May 3, 2008
Schwarzenegger breaking laws, Walter's scandalous affair


Uh oh. A San Diego federal district court magistrate has found the Schwarzenegger administration's demands for large payments by the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians to the state's general fund, in return for a gaming compact amendment that allows the tribe to add additional slot machines, to be an illegal tax in violation of federal law.

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Barbara Walters, 78, writes in her book, "Auditions," that the affair with former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke in the 1970s almost ended both their careers.

At the time, the twice-divorced Walters was a rising television news star and co-host of the "Today" show. When her lover, who's now 88, told the newswoman she was the oldest woman he had ever been with, she wanted to say - but never did - "Oh yeah? Well you are the blackest man I have ever been with," Walters writes.

Brooke, the first black member of the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, was so in love with Walters he told his wife he wanted a divorce.

Enraged, his wife tried to reveal the affair to the National Enquirer, Walters writes. A phone call from a worried friend reminding Walters that Brooke was up for reelection the next year and that her job could be in jeopardy persuaded Walters to call it quits.

"I slowly began asking myself if we could ever be married. Would such a marriage destroy his career? Would it destroy mine?" Walters wonders in the book.

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