The "Times" drew fire for a last-minute story before the 2003 California recall election alleging that gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger groped scores of women during his movie career. Columnist Jill Stewart wrote on the "American Reporter" website that the "Times" did not do a story on allegations that former Governor Gray Davis had verbally and physically abused women in his office, and that the Schwarzenegger story relied on a number of anonymous sources. Further, she said, four of the six alleged victims were not named. She also said that in the case of the Davis allegations, the "Times" decided against printing the Davis story because of its reliance on anonymous sources. The American Society of Newspaper Editors said that the "Times" lost more than 10,000 subscribers because of the negative publicity surrounding the Schwarzenegger article.