Public employee union activists showed the utter hypocrisy of their campaign against the special election initiatives on Thursday at a rally in LA’s Pershing Square.
While $115 million has been spent by public employee unions to oppose the reform initiatives and promote a message that the voices of their members will be silenced if Prop 75 passes, an angry mob of dues paying union members showed what little respect they have for free speech.
"A single Schwarzenegger supporter struggles to hold her ground in a rally against the governor’s special election initiatives. Opponents tried to hit her with their signs and some blocked news cameras as she argued her point. The crowd turns quickly, grabbing her signs and tearing them up. Even a woman wearing an orange security vest rips up the “Vote Yes” signs.” (CBS 2 News, October 28, 2005)
Two Los Angeles television stations caught on tape a hyped up mob of union activists intimidating and roughing up a woman who had the courage to speak out in favor of the four reform initiatives.
Whipping the crowd into a frenzy was none other than Speaker Fabian Nunez, who was a featured speaker at the rally in Pershing Square. At the very least, Nunez - a former union organizer himself - has a duty to issue a public apology to this woman on behalf the union bosses who control him. That is, unless the Speaker believes that violence and thuggery are acceptable forms of public expression.
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The Video you have to see (Click Here)
The funny thing is that most of the signs opposing 75 ask for us not to “silence their voice”. Yet they sure try their best to silence ours. At a rally I attended last week I was heckled by union members who shouted “shame on you” and “you bastard” as I left the Anaheim Marketplace. Reminds me a lot of the liberal nut jobs I had to deal with during the Bush election.
In the video pay special attention to the “security guard” who strips the Arnold supporters signs away from her while another union supporter strikes her in the head.
I don’t know Genevieve Peters, but I hope some day to meet her. What a strong and fearless person she is to put her self in harms way like that, to stand up for what she believes in.
While I have attended a number of rallies and events in support of the initiatives I was unable to make it to this one. Some of us do have to work. Then again, how is it that so many union members can skip out on work to attend these...hmmmmm.
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