State Funds Being Used to Fight Recall

Recall Gray Davis Committee mail list ^ | July 29, 2003 | Recall Davis Committee via comwatch

[comwatch]

This just in from the Recall Gray Davis Committee
"YES on RECALL" Campaign Fund
P.O. Box 1445
Sacramento, CA 95812

Breaking News folks. We've received information that the Institute for Labor and Employment was set to conduct anti-Recall Gray Davis media and communications workshops for union officials to fight the Davis recall.

The budget passed by the California State Senate on July 27 includes $4million to fund the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California.

Now they are helping organize the labor community into a massive force to defeat the recall.

You read that right:

ANTI-RECALL FORCES ARE USING _YOUR_ TAX DOLLARS TO DEFEAT THE RECALL.

We knew the battle would be tough. That is why I am currently spending night and day on the telephone to raise enough money for the "YES on RECALL" campaign. And that's why I need your financial support to raise enough money for us to be successful.

But there is something else you can do.

Help me beat this issue over the head of the media until they report it. Call, email and write to every newspaper, radio and television station in your community and DEMAND that they cover this story of the misuse of our tax dollars.

Here is the website with the information on the taxpayer-funded ANTI-RECALL organizing sessions:

The Institute for Labor and Employment has received over $17 million from Gray Davis and the State Legislature in the last three years.

The line item for the Institute for Labor and Employment is identified in the budget as the U.C. Berkeley/UCLA Multi-Campus Research Unit for Labor Studies. It is on page 477, lines 18-21 of the budget bill passed by the Senate, AB 1765.

And that money is now being used to help defeat the recall.

Disgusted?

Then help me by alerting the media in your area and don't relent until it is the top news story on every network, on every radio station and in every newspaper. You KNOW that this would be the TOP news story if this were about inappropriate government-funding of PRO-RECALL activities.

[timestax]

ANTI-RECALL FORCES ARE USING _YOUR_ TAX DOLLARS TO DEFEAT THE RECALL.

That must stop!

[Diver Dave]

I'll be sending a letter to the Modesto Bee.

Thanks for the info.

[truthkeeper]

I'm forwarding this to John and Ken, L.A. radio's junkyard dogs. I'll bet they will give it a little airtime.

[backhoe]

-Total Recall- the Gray Davis Soap Opera--

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Just sent to the Los Angeles Daily News. They should appreciate it since I mentioned I'm a subscriber who is going to renew because of their objective coverage of the Recall effort.

[Roscoe]

Think Dan Walters of the Sacto. Bee might be interested?

When the David Roberti recall effort was underway, Walters was hysterical in his attacks on the organizers. It was only after the vote that the old whore revealed that his daughter was a paid Roberti staffer.

I wonder who she's "working" for now?

[adam_az]

I hope we don't get more Peoples Republic of Kalifornia refugees here in Arizona.

Seal the borders with California AND Mexico, please! :)

Maybe we can have a nationwide recall election on California's statehood status.

They'd have to rearrange the stars and stripes back to 49, but it would be a more perfect union!

The downside is, we'd have a communist nation on our border, but hey, we could always invade if they piss us off too much, something we can't do now.

Jay Garner could run California!

[adam_az]

ping, thought you might like this thread.

[zip]

A few years ago, the Missouri Attorney General spent time in prison for using state copy machines, computers etc for his campaign. Yes, prison time.

[Joe Brower]

[Robert A Cook PE]

Related issue?

Heard that the State is going to push (an existing ? / a new ? ) court ruling that claims that you DON'T have to vote "Yes" on the recall option to choose a "new" candidate.

Thus, democrats could BOTH vote "No recall" and then vote FOR somebody else (a "bad" republican ? or a replacement liberal or a throw-away vote like "Mickey Mouse" even! ) just to screw up the actual totals.

[Roscoe]

Heard that the State is going to push (an existing ? / a new ? ) court ruling that claims that you DON'T have to vote "Yes" on the recall option to choose a "new" candidate.

That isn't new.

[timestax]

bttt

[budwiesest]

Walters was hysterical in his attacks

I've read his column many times (a sleep aid if ever there was one) and heard him on the Tom Sullivan show a couple of times (I thinkd he guest-hosted).

Bit of a blow-hard IMO and it is not surprising that the Bee would hire such a person to write a political insider's column. Politically boring with a leftist spin as you suggest. Yet, few can hold a candle to Peter Schrag with his constant vamp about all the social ills that have resulted from the passage of Prop. 13.

[So Cal Rocket]

What is the relationship between the "Institute for Labor and Employment" (which is the organization receiving state funds) and the "State Building & Construction Trades Council of California" (which is the organization holding the Anti-Recall Seminars)?

I can't seem to find the link between the two - can you help?

[TheBattman]

Anyone thought of getting this to Michael Savage?

[King Prout]

*channelling Kyle's Mom*
"WhatWhatWHAAAAAT?!?"
I thank God I live in Dixie, not Kali.
You have my sympathies.
In about 5 minutes, you'll also have some of my money.
Good luck in the fight!

[King Prout]

B/C and Just Damn ping.
can you BELIEVE this?

[King Prout]

O King of Ping - this needs to go out to everyone, I think.

[AD from SpringBay]

$4million to fund the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California.

porkporkporkporkporkporkporkporkporkpork - I wonder how many of these there are?

Better cut some vital services so the citizens of California vote democrap.