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They didn't say this back in 1997... LOL!
Check this out... Davis held C.O.P.S. in high regard, just last year (BUSTED!)...
From Gray-Davis.com --> (The Davis Digest)
Friday, August 17, 2001
GOVERNOR ENDORSED BY NATIONAL POLICE GROUP
At its annual convention in Monterey this past weekend, the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) voted to support Davis’ re-election bid. Davis, who earned the organization’s first-ever state election endorsement four years ago, won the group’s backing a second time because he kept his promise to work closely with law enforcement.
“It was a promise made and a promise kept. You can’t ask more than that,” said Tom Scotto, president of NAPO, as he announced backing of Davis for a second term. “The Governor has been a great friend to law enforcement in his first term.” The National Association of Police Organizations, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is a coalition of police unions and associations from across the United States, representing more than 215,000 of the nation’s law enforcement officers.
In the leaked memo — which made front-page news in California newspapers — Mr. South accused Mr. Holden of "pimping for Simon."
"Has Holden lost his mind?" Mr. South wrote. "If this reflects his sentiments, he needs to lose his job!"
But Gabriel Sanchez, Davis campaign deputy press secretary, said in an interview that the COPS endorsement of Mr. Simon doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
Somebody on Davis' team needs to tell Holden not to get so upset over just "a hill of beans."
Does anyone have the quotes from Davis when he received the COPS endorsement last election? These should look nice next to Sanchez's.
So, a group that was liberal enough to support Dim-Bulb, Box-of-Dirt and WhineSwine has now pulled their support from Dim-Bulb Davis?
I can see the writing on the wall now, and it's good for Kalifornia, and bad for Dim-Bulb.
March 5, 1999
Report: Marketers Lie, Intimidate to Raise Funds
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Tele-marketers working for a state law enforcement group raised funds by threatening Hispanics with cutting off their 911 services, impersonating police officers and employing solicitors with criminal backgrounds, The Orange County Register reported Sunday.
The politically powerful California Organization of Police and Sheriffs, a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization known as COPS, has raised $6.48 million since 1996, but an investigation by the newspaper found that 88 cents of every dollar has been eaten up by fund-raising costs.
The remaining 12 percent and funds from monthly dues are used by the Burbank-based organization to pay for services such as legal counsel for its members, legislative lobbying and recruitment efforts, and travel for board members to meetings in Hawaii and Palm Springs.
COPS Executive Director Al Angele acknowledged that the group has had problems with telemarketers, but said the group is trying to get a bigger share of the funds raised and doesn't condone misrepresentation or bullying tactics.
``Once we get complaints, we take care of the complaints the best we can,'' said Angele, a retired Burbank police officer paid $70,000 annually to run the organization.
Last year, COPS raised $1.4 million using political mailers.
Politicians such as Gov. Gray Davis and Sen. Barbara Boxer have paid thousands of dollars to have their names on the group's political mailers because the endorsement gives the appearance of strong law-enforcement backing, the newspaper said.
But telemarketing has generated most of COPS' funds during its 24-year existence.
The organization raised more money through phone solicitation than any other state law enforcement association in 1997, the year for which the most recent figures are available, the paper said.
COPS employs telemarketers to solicit advertising and funds from individuals.
In 1993 and 1994, COPS employed telemarketers who raised $12,640 from nearly 350 contributors with Hispanic surnames by calling Hispanic residents in Santa Ana and threatening to cut off 911 services if they didn't make donations, police reports showed.
Solicitors believed Hispanics would be less likely to report illegal activity, police said.
``What they were doing was absolutely disgusting,'' said Santa Ana Police Capt. Dan McCoy.
Around the same time, COPS fundraisers posed as police officers when calling Anaheim residents and in one instance, promised to take one point off a bad driving record for a $40 donation, Anaheim police reports showed.
An undercover police investigation focused on the Santa Ana telemarketing firm Tri County Associates, operated by COPS fund-raiser Richard John Levine. Levine, of Orange, was sentenced to 217 days in jail after pleading guilty to grand theft and conspiracy to commit a theft in connection with the telemarketing scam.
Other telemarketers working for COPS have included a registered sex offender and a man convicted of passing bogus checks to an undercover FBI agent and who had ties to the Los Angeles Mafia. Angele said he wasn't aware of the man's ties to organized crime.
Stuart Furstman, COPS chief fundraiser, said it is difficult to monitor phone solicitors.
``When I confront the contractor, they say it's a misinterpretation,'' Furstman said. ``There have been a lot of renegades out there.''
Often, phone solicitors will tell people the money raised will benefit survivors of slain law enforcement officers and public safety programs for children. Other times, telemarketers say local law enforcement agencies will receive some of the funds.
COPS officials, however, accounted for only a single $500 donation in 1996 to the Northern California chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors, a group which refused to let the COPS use their name for another fundraiser.
``They were going to be collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars and giving us $20,000,'' said Gayle McKnight, president of the Northern California chapter.
ROTFLMAO!!! Mr. Miner earned his paycheck today. Wonderfully understated.
See? I'll complement a guy who does things right. That's how rare it's been.
And your boss will be lucky to get 40,000 votes out of that.
In the leaked memo — which made front-page news in California newspapers — Mr. South accused Mr. Holden of "pimping for Simon."
:-)
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