All you need to know.
Posted on 07/22/2006 10:17:04 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Advocates for millions of injured workers and the attorneys who represent them are rallying behind state Treasurer Phil Angelides' campaign for governor, responding to his pledge to change workers' compensation rules if elected.
One Beverly Hills disability lawyer went as far as to suggest in a recent e-mail to colleagues that they leverage dollars from the medical community for Angelides by threatening to withhold future cases from doctors who do not contribute at least $2,500 to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate's campaign -- an idea quickly rejected by the board of the Applicants' Attorneys Association.
After years of skyrocketing insurance premiums that some said were driving businesses out of the state, Schwarzenegger led an effort shortly after taking office to rein in costs by limiting services and tightening rules for disability compensation payments.
By all measures, those changes have succeeded in saving employers big money -- $8.1 billion per year, according to one study. But there are also problems on the horizon.
"Gov. Schwarzenegger opposes any effort to roll back the successful reforms he developed with legislators that has produced a 40 percent reduction in rates for California businesses," said Julie Soderlund, spokeswoman for the governor's re-election campaign. "Money that has been put back into the economy and into creating new jobs."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
While lawyers support Angelides, businessmen and women support Arnold.
Small-business owners favor Schwarzenegger (Small Bus. Org. Endorses Arnold by 95% of the vote)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661023/posts
Ninety percent of California small-business owners who are members of the National Federation of Independent Business gave their approval to endorse a candidate in this year's gubernatorial election, according to a survey released today.
And 95 percent of the votes were for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Only 1 percent of the people who employ the majority of working Californians supports State Treasurer Phil Angelides for governor, the survey shows.
"When you have one candidate promising to raise every tax in the state on one side and a governor with a measurable record of doing his best for small business on the other side, the lopsided result can't be much of a mystery," Martyn Hopper, state director for the 35,000-member NFIB/California, said in a statement. "Governor Schwarzenegger has been positively stellar for Main Street, California, mom-and-pop firms."
READ THE ARTICLE THIS MORNING. I will email the author and say:"Your article is total B--l s--t. No matter how true the liberal voters will give our action-hero guv the benefit of the doubt.
If that kind of extortion isn't illegal, it certainly should be. I wonder what the California Election Code has to say about that sort of thing.
I'm sure Bill Lockyer, State AG and one of the Whore-acle crew, is right on top of it. Too bad the feds can't step in. and lock the whole damn lot of them up.
What article this morning?
Liberals will NOT vote for Arnold, they vote the way the unions tell them to vote, and that's for Angelides.
The shakedown society.
Nothing new. The lawyers always play to the libs, who will do ANYTHING for campaign money and votes. Just like they did with Clinton and Gore on TORT REFORM -- a $160,000 donation from the Trial Lawyers Association got tort reform killed by Clinton --- such pieces of criminal excrement, the libs are.
All you need to know.
"the support staff supports Schwarzenegger - and the support staff outnumbers the attorneys by about 4 to 1."
Thanks for sharing the good news. :)
The CAGOP didn't do too well last time explaining these whoppers:
90% gave their approval; 95% of the votes ..
Liberals won't vote for the Austrian ..
Try, try again. The CAGOP you can fool some of the people some of ......
Campaigning for Angelides AGAIN, like a good little fake-conservative?
Business supports Arnold, Lawyers support Angelides.
Whom should conservatives support?
Ad Watch: Chamber (of Commerce) ad extols Schwarzenegger's record
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1602860/posts
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has released a second television ad on behalf of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that is scheduled to run on cable and broadcast outlets statewide. This 30-second spot explicitly champions the performance of the governor since he gained office in the 2003 recall election. Below is the text of the ad and an analysis by Andy Furillo of The Bee Capitol Bureau.
• NARRATOR: Remember? California was $22 billion in the red, the car tax tripled, jobs and businesses were leaving, a state literally in the dark. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered. Repealing the car tax hike, cutting the deficit, refusing to raise taxes, helping create 400,000 new jobs, and expanding trade. There's hard work ahead. But with his heart in the right place, Schwarzenegger is helping California compete.
Compare him to a socialist or a fascist and he's still a liberal.
Point out that Republicans are a minority party in California and he's still a liberal.
Fabricate accomplishments and he's still a liberal.
Regardless the shade of lip gloss, your European porker is still a liberal pig.
REAL conservatives do NOT campaign for liberal leftist Dems, as you are doing constantly. Therefore YOU are NO CONSERVATIVE.
I think the reply intended to say:
Conservatives do not campaign for liberals.
That's correct. They don't.
So why is the Republican Party promoting, in a conservative house, a European liberal? Why would the Republican Party support a liberal, even if an American liberal?
It simply makes no sense, regardless of the alternatives and regardless of the odds. It's an oxymoron and should be an embarrassment to the CAGOP.
Trust conservatives when they observe that within months, there will be news articles exposing the details of just how the Republican Party attempted to undermine conservatives running on the CAGOP slate.
This email that I received today will enlighten those that are not familiar with how pathetic the California Assembly Democrats are.
I think you will find this informative about the California Liberals.
READ THIS CAREFULLY
This will make you shake your head in disbelief!
Subject: 4th of July in California Assembly
From John Campbell,
California Republican Assemblyman
4th of July: In each of the 4 years that I have been a member of the state Assembly, we have had many "celebrations" on the Assembly floor.
These "celebrations" are orchestrated by the Democrats who control the House and often involve singing and dancing. Every one of my 4 years have seen
substantial celebrations of Cinco de Mayo (which Commemorates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla ), St. Patrick's Day (for
the patron Saint of Ireland), and Chinese New Year's Day, among others. But never once have we celebrated America's Independence Day, the 4th of July.
So, this year, Republican Assemblyman Jay LaSuer of San Diego arranged for Vietnam war hero Admiral Jeremiah Denton to come to California to be a part of a 4th of July ceremony. As you may know, Admiral Denton was a Navy pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 8 years in a Vietnamese prison. In 1966 while in prison, he was interviewed by North Vietnamese television
in Hanoi after torture to get him to "respond properly." During this interview, he blinked his eyes in Morse code to spell out the word "torture." He was asked about his support for the war in Vietnam to which
he replied "I don't know what is happening now in Vietnam, because the only news sources I have are Vietnamese. But whatever the position of my government is, I believe in it, I support it, and I will support it as long as I live." Four of his 8 years in prison were spent in solitary confinement. He later wrote the book "When Hell was in Session" chronicling
his experience in Vietnam. When he stepped off the plane after being released from prison in 1973, he said "We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country in difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief for this day. God bless America." He was later elected to the U.S. Senate from his home state of Alabama, becoming the first retired Admiral ever elected to that body. I could go on and on about his accomplishments.
Suffice it to say, Jeremiah Denton is unquestionably an American hero. The Democrat leadership refused to allow him on the Assembly floor, and there was no 4th of July celebration. A memo from the Democrat speaker's office said "problems have arisen both with regards to the spirit, content, and participation of various individuals with regard to the ceremony." Apparently, they said that he did not believe in the "separation
of church and state" and they didn't like the policies he supported as a United States Senator and therefore they would not allow him to be on the Assembly floor or to speak. Upon hearing about this, Governor Schwarzenegger offered his meeting room for a ceremony with Admiral Denton. The room was overflowing with
people. Only one elected Democrat was in attendance. A number of veterans of the last 4 wars were present. Admiral Denton gave a very moving speech about the 4th of July and about the undeniable commitment of our founding fathers' to their faith in God. He talked about how the war on terrorism may be the most difficult war we have yet fought. And he went on to say that he fears that partisan attacks on our mission and our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan sound too familiar to what he experienced in Vietnam. Following his speech, The Governor came out to personally spend time with him. Then this American hero, whose debt from us all can never be repaid, flew home to Alabama.
The Assembly did meet on that day. And we did have a ceremony that lasted nearly 20 minutes. That ceremony was to celebrate the career of a reporter from the LA Times on the occasion of his retirement. Democrats
universally praised him as being "balanced." He was allowed to speak for about 10 minutes. Admiral Denton was no longer in the building.
Four years of Cinco De Mayo and not one recognition of the 4th of July. An LA Times reporter praised, and the very person whose sacrifice allows him to express his opinion is banned. It is perverse. It is wrong. And it is disrespectful to all the men and women in uniform who have stared death in the face and to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the American people.
Admiral Jeremiah Denton is a hero not because he was politician, but like all the other men and women of the Armed Forces, because he defended the ideals set forth with America's independence. Democrats are always railing about intolerance and discrimination.
But yet in practice, it is they who engage in regular state-sanctioned discrimination and who are intolerant of the presentation of other views. Maybe they are worried that people will listen. I do not send you this to bash Democrats. I send you this to demonstrate the huge chasm that exists between registered, voting Democrats, and elected Democrat leadership. I hope those of you who are not Democrats, will send this to your friends who are. If you are a Democrat, don't be
ashamed. Be angry. Straighten out your party and your leadership, or leave it.
Fortunately, we do not need the approval of the Speaker of the Assembly to celebrate our nation's independence. Nor do we need his permission to thank those who fought to give us and to maintain our
freedoms. On the 4th of July, as the burgers cook and the fireworks fly, let us always remember......and give thanks. As a final offering, I give you a poem that Admiral Denton read to us, through eyes clouded with tears: "It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag."
Amen. God bless America.
Until next time, I remain, Assemblyman John Campbell
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