Recall Supporters Violently Attacked by Gray Davis Thugs (Update)

www.RecallGrayDavis.com ^ | 12 August 2003 | Howard Kaloogian

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Recall Supporters Violently Attacked by Gray Davis Thugs

Women and Children Among Those Victimized

Above: Recall Gray Davis Committee supporter, Shawn Cubbage – wearing a baseball cap – is attacked by union thugs wearing dark “NO ON RECALL” t-shirts paid for by the State Building & Construction Trades Council. Another Recall Gray Davis supporter, Donald Lacomb, is immediately behind Cubbage and had attempted to help protect Mr. Cubbage but was then assaulted himself.

UPDATE TO ALL
RECALL GRAY DAVIS
SUPPORTERS

FROM: The Honorable Howard Kaloogian
Chairman, Recall Gray Davis Committee
www.RecallGrayDavis.com

Several Recall Gray Davis Supporters
Kicked, Beaten, Punched, Tackled to the Ground as They
Protested Taxpayer Funding of
Anti-Recall Workshops.

Recall Gray Davis supporters and volunteers were violently attacked by thugs supporting Governor Gray Davis on Saturday and have filed a criminal complaint. Our top-notch legal team is also exploring possible civil action.

On Saturday, several peaceful Recall Gray Davis protestors were brutally beaten, kicked, punched and tackled to the ground by union workers who were attending a taxpayer-funded workshop, WAR - “Workers Against the Recall.”

The violent “WAR” union workshop attendees rushed across J Street in downtown Sacramento – through traffic! – in several waves and attacked the pro-recall protestors.

A 20-year-old woman and a 7-year-old boy were among those who were terrorized.

One of four incidents where recall supporters were physically beaten was caught on video by Fox News Channel and the Recall Gray Davis Committee has uploaded a clip of this footage to our website. For video and photographs of part of the attack please CLICK HERE.

PLEASE – I need your help.

As the chairman of the Recall Gray Davis Committee, I am sickened by the sights and sounds of my staff and recall supporters and volunteers being beaten by thugs.

Several of our people were victimized in four attacks – one of which is captured in the Fox News Channel video and photographs shown at this special page on our website.

We cannot tolerate this behavior from the thugs who Gray Davis and his political team have hired to fight the recall effort. Make no mistake – Davis and his hired guns are determined to frighten and intimidate the people of California from supporting this recall.

When they tell you that the recall is a “circus atmosphere” or “risky” they are trying to strike fear into your soul.

And now we see they are going even further by trying to scare people from actively and publicly working on behalf of the recall campaign through the use of violence.

We must not let them defeat us with fear.

I need you to call your local talk radio stations and voice your outrage over this revolting incident. I need you to send the pictures and video file to reporters at major newspapers, television stations and radio stations.

DEMAND THAT THEY SHOW CALIFORNIANS THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THOSE WHO DARED TO OPPOSE GRAY DAVIS.

If you can also continue to help fund our legal defense fund I would greatly appreciate it. So many of you sent in generous contributions to assist in our legal efforts to date. I never thought that I would have to raise money for the medical bills for recall supporters and legal bills to fight those who had attacked my dedicated and hard-working staff.

If I have to, I will pay these expenses out of my own pocket – my staff and our volunteers have become an extended family of mine who have made history thanks to their tireless efforts, determination, honesty, integrity and perseverance. I will not allow anyone to harm members of this great family without also going through me.

As you will recall, the reason we had organized our peaceful protest against these “WAR” workshops – on the OPPOSITE side of the street from where the workshops were being held – is because they used taxpayer funds to assist in the leadership and planning of the workshops.

The University of California Institute for Labor & Employment received $4,000,000 in taxpayer money from this year’s budget and was listed as one of the lead organizers of these workshops.

We were outraged and wanted to show the media and the people of California that we would not allow Gray Davis to get away with this unnoticed.

Apparently they decided to beat my staff, supporters and volunteers into silence.

But we cannot be silent, my friends.

The end is near for Gray Davis’ corrupt and failed administration and we must move forward undaunted – committed in our goal of restoring the California Dream for our families.

Please – make sure that every Californian hears the truth about what happened on this violent Saturday morning. We must not let those who endured the pain and physical punishment for standing up for their beliefs to have suffered in vain.

Sincerely,

Howard Kaloogian
Chairman, Recall Gray Davis Committee
www.RecallGrayDavis.com

[StarfireIV]

"A 20-year-old woman and a 7-year-old boy were among those who were terrorized"
Ah, I see more of the peaceful, kind hearted liberals were at work again.

[alrea]

Nothing like a good Concealed Carry law

Californians are waking up.

[Impeach98]

"Coincidence?"

Nah - just sloppy camera work... the cameraman kept panning the ground for half the "raw" footage. And he got to where the attack was taking by the time most of it had occurred.

We are still very grateful he was there at all though.

[freepy smurf]

Hollow the point, fill it with mercury, and then seal it with paraffin. Devastating exit wound.

[EBUCK]

I ain't no expert, but if the WAR meeting and/or tshirts were financed with even $.01 of taxpayers money, don't I have a right to pitch a bitch?

You got no rights...where have you been?

[EBUCK]

Defending yourself with a weapon, especially one so obviously meant as a pike, will get you in prison I believe. Bes jest lie down and lick them steel toed boots....../sarcasm

[FReepaholic]

>>...Some conservatives need boxing lessons...<<

Colt .45...The Great Equalizer.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I hit a union goon with a car once... oops...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the pings!

calgov2002:

Gray Must Pay
Cruz Must Lose

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[Scenic Sounds]

I hit a union goon with a car once... oops

Careful, Chad, you're liable to make me an apologist for reckless drivers. ;-)

[Chad Fairbanks]

Heh heh heh... Hey, ya wanna walk in front of a moving car, on a state highway it ain't my problem... ;0)

[kellynla]

Thanks for the post CCC and the ping, Ernest. Dirty politics as usual. Unfortunately the anti-recall losers are too late. Someone should inform them that the petitions are in, signatures counted, verified and the recall election is 10/7! Only 57 days 'til we DUMP DAVIS! VOTE 4 MCCLINTOCK! http://www.tommcclintock.com

[.cnI redruM]

Manuel Noriega eventually became this desperate.

[P.O.E.]

Odd how these liberal utopias end up (or sometimes start)with thugs in the streets.

[mvpel]

The reason the Nazi brownshirts fought with the Communists in Germany prior to Hitler's rise is because they were competing for the same people as members, as Hayek pointed out 25 years ago.

[lentulusgracchus]

I go for the 165-grain .45ACP Federal Hydra-Shok Personal Defense Load, myself.

Pistols are for people who want a chance to miss. Get a shotgun. Besides, shotguns are legal carry in lots of places pistols aren't.

[BOBWADE]

If the actions were planned or discussed at the union workshop it seems that the union would be a prime target for a lawsuit.

[lasereye]

The Republicans have their corporate executive thugs attack liberal demonstrators. The parties are the same. Vote Libertarian.

[lentulusgracchus]

The reason the Nazi brownshirts fought with the Communists in Germany prior to Hitler's rise is because they were competing for the same people as members, as Hayek pointed out 25 years ago.

Really? News to me .... where can I read about that?

They were both recruiting goons?

[P.O.E.]

Try Hayek's "Road to Serfdom"