Staffers working for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides discovered an audio file on Schwarzenegger's campaign web site that features California's celebrity governor comparing a colleague, Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, to a bodybuilder he once knew in some rather stereotypical remarks.

“I mean Cuban, Puerto Rican, 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.”

The remarks were the subject of a front page Los Angeles Time article last week.

At the request of Schwarzenegger’s office the California Highway Patrol is investigating whether the private taped conversation of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from state computers was illegally downloaded.

Schwarzenegger’s communications director, Adam Mendelsohn, asserts that the files were password protected and the site was manipulated, but Angelides’s campaign manager, Cathy Calfo says otherwise. Calfo claims that anyone who received a Hurricane Katrina audio file that the governor’s headquarters sent out could easily access other audio files on the site.

Hacking is a serious charge and a serious crime and web security is proving to be the new forum for campaign attacks. Just ask Joe Lieberman.

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