The Governator says Puerto Ricans and Cubans are 'hot'

LAB_ · Guru

RE: The Governator says Puerto Ricans and Cubans are 'hot'

MellowManC · Guru

I was just reading this on my rogers yahoo email while i was about to log in to check my email... very interesting article, but i dont think that Mr.Arnie meant anything offensive by it... its actually a good thing that he likes the Latin women..

Quixote · Guru

I think people took this out of context.. but Arnold should have been more clear that it was a joke and his poor choice of words did not help.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/08/schwarzenegger.tape.ap/index.html

Excerpt follows....

The statements were captured on a six-minute tape made during a March 3 speechwriting session between Schwarzenegger and his advisers. On it, Schwarzenegger and chief of staff Susan Kennedy speak affectionately of state Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia and speculate about her nationality.

"I mean Cuban, Puerto-Rican, they are all very hot," the governor says on the recording. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it."

Garcia, who is Puerto Rican, told the Times the governor's remarks did not bother her.

"I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am," she said. "Very often I tell him, 'Look, I am a hot-blooded Latina.' I label myself a hot-blooded Latina that is very passionate about the issues, and this is kind of an inside joke that I have with the governor."