Posted on 01/12/2007 5:00:04 AM PST by paltz
House Republicans yesterday declared "something fishy" about the major tuna company in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district being exempted from the minimum-wage increase that Democrats approved this week.
"I am shocked," said Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican and his party's chief deputy whip, noting that Mrs. Pelosi campaigned heavily on promises of honest government. "Now we find out that she is exempting hometown companies from minimum wage. This is exactly the hypocrisy and double talk that we have come to expect from the Democrats."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
the majority of the public would see that as utterly ridiculous, as the GOP has fought wage raises for 10 years
http://asoiaf.westeros.org/lofiversion/index.php/t14242.html
While your time-line is significantly flawed, the Pelosi connection with the ongoing Sea-Lion/H.J. Heinz War is an important developement.
As most know the population of Alaskan Sea-Lions has been declining at a significant rate since the early 70s, experts put the figure at an 80% decline. The early 70s was an important period in this conflict due to The H.J Heinz Corporation's acquisition of the StarKist Tuna canning business. Shortly after acquiring StarKist, H.J. Heinz classified it as a 'subsidiary business' and relocated from its sea-side California base, closer to H.J. Heinz' Sharpsberg, Pennsylvania home. The move wasn't political in nature, it was concieved and executed by Heinz Directors to shore up some distribution synergies.
The move, however, did have unintended consequences. While the Alaskan Sea-Lion waned, due to the extensive poaching of available tuna (The Sea-Lion's principal prey), the California Sea-Lion population enjoyed healthy growth, as Heinz increased its canning of East Coast tuna.
http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/wilde...als/sealion.htm
The significance of the relationship between the population growth of the California Sea-Lion and the Heinz buyout and subsequent relocation of Starkist, was not lost on the Sea-Lions.
Fast forward to 2003. The H.J. Heinz corporation, in response to a decline in the compounded annual growth of its revenues, decieded to sell off, in a closed market all-stock transaction, a number of its packaged foods businesses. Among which, was StarKist Tuna.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_..._66/ai_91155852
StarKist's new parent corporation is now Del Monte Foods. Del Monte's base of operations? Thats right, San Fransisco, California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Monte
The timeline of Del Monte's acquisition of StarKist coincides exactly with the increased Sea-Lion attacks on Californians mentioned in the article. For a while the Sea-Lion was content with the occasional retalitory murder, obviously trying to scare the Del Monte brass. However, recent events have caused the Sea-Lion to take more drastic tactics, i.e.taking out a 50 foot yacht in San Fransisco harbour. Enter the Pelosi connection.
Billionaire owner of Snapple, Arby's, and TJ cinnimon, Nelson Peltz is currently locked into a proxy battle with H.J. Heinz Corporations board of directors. When Heinz sold StarKist to Del Monte, the terms resulted in Heinz stockholders becoming 74.5% owners of the new Del Monte. Peltz, H.J. Heinz' principle non-family shareholder, is attempting to increase his influence within the company by obtaining another proxy seat. To better his cause, Peltz has enlisted the help of business/real estate investor Paul Pelosi, Nancy's husband. Paul Pelosi's portfiolio includes 3 huge Napa Valley properties in addition to a 17 million dollar position in the H.J. Heinz corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._J._Heinz_Company
This is all factual data. I can provide more links later.
It appears that the Sea-Lion's are fighting back; take out a few people and stop them from buying tuna, they tried that and it didn't do much. Now they are stepping up their attacks. Taking out San Fransisco's marina, accomplishes a number of military goals. 1) They are hitting the economic infrastructure that enables Del Monte and Heinz to make money by fishing the very tuna that the Sea-Lions need to survive. 2) They send a message to Del Monte and Heinz principle shareholder Nelson Peltz, get StarKist out of San Fran, or we'll f**k with the constituency of your boy Pelosi's bitch.
Not a problem, Paul Pelosi doesn't talk to Nancy either. Plausible denaibility is good enough for MSM where dems are concerned. Is it plausible that Paul doesn't speak to Nancy? Sadly, I would have to say yes.
Politicians like Pelosi are why they call us a "blew" state.
lol...
That'd be the honorable thing to do. But since you don't know what's in the package, it's a pig in a poke, and if it's something your constituents might favor, you'll get hammered for it the next election cycle - and you can be sure the Democrats will gleefully engineer just such a thing.
MSM...nothing to see here ...move along you looky-loos. Where is old Baghdad Bob for some comic relief?
Of course, since Pelosi is a democrat, the MSM will certainly 'look the other way' on this hypocrisy.
LOL!
Totally in character for Madam Speaker. I read that Pelosi is a millionare. One of the ways she and her husband made their millions was to hire non-union workers in their vinyards and pay below minimum wages.
"Mr. McHenry raised a parliamentary inquiry as to whether an amendment could be offered that would exempt American Samoa from stem-cell research, "just as it was for the minimum-wage bill."
Thats funny stuff. Then Barney got his panties in a bunch.
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Never make it on ABC World news Tonight or NYT so it never happened.
Hellooo! Aren't you even a little bit ashamed or embarrassed to admit you didn't even READ the legislation you voted yes on? At least let your constituents know that you plan to be a rubber stamp for the democrats.
Didn't Puglosi pass a rule that the minority party can only vote on these early bills, but no amendments are allowed? Seems like some of the Republicans faced a Hobson's choice on this one.
Now that the vote is in, there ain't nothing stopping them from questioning things...
As in Teresa Heinz-Kerry???
Why does that just figure?
You said, in part: Okay, so she hasn't been lobbied by them.
Fine. Let's say she hasn't.
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Why would Star Kist need to lobby her if she includes these provisions in legislation WITHOUT them lobbying her? A little nod nod, wink wink, it looks like from here.
Even if she was lobbied by a business in her district, and then exempted them, it is hypocrisy, which is not a jailable offense. I agree it is fishy.
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