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Posted on 07/08/2002 10:52:13 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Seven months after ordering a statewide hiring freeze, the last thing Gov. Gray Davis needed was a headline saying, "State Government Employment Reaches Record Level of 234,505 Employees."
But that's just the headline Davis got from the Capitol Weekly -- a little (10,000 subscribers) paper that caters mostly to state employees looking for new job opportunities.
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Keefer steadily instills doubt in the crew's confidence in Queeg by questioning the captain's mental instability:
"Look at the man. He's a Freudian delight. He crawls with clues. His fixation on the little rolling balls. The chattering in second-hand phrases and slogans. His inability to look you in the eye, the constant migraine headaches."
So what is the best course?
Nothing.
The 10,000-odd readers of this publication are insignificant in electoral terms. The story, when read today, will be forgotten tomorrow, shoved aside in the context of state job listings and the like. People who read this publication are probably looking for state jobs, and appreciate them being a growth industry!
So if you ignore this issue, nobody's going to pick it up and nothing will happen. You have to have a bit of self-confidence to pull it off, but if you do, nothing will happen.
Unfortunately, for Gray, he doesn't have the self-confidence. Or, considering other matters discussed here, perhaps I could say 'balls'?
Of course his actual, vindictive policy not only makes this a major news story, it also exposes his incompetence in handling a hiring freeze to the world.
Gray Davis is a fool - or he has fools for advisors.
D
Calling Registered.... we need you.
What's with the strawberries? Linking Davis with Captain Queeg? It'd be more than appropriate.
I've been listening to KFI every day, following this story. This is on the John and Ken show, 3pm-7pm Pacific. They've been ragging on that stupid 'greenhouse gas' bill nearly nonstop. When the Forces of Evil managed to sneak that bill through the legislature, J&K went ballistic and started urging their listeners to call Davis and urge a veto. They also had a Davis press flack on and were absolutely merciless, and actually shouting at the guy and calling the legislative supporters of the bill 'hippies'. They also scoffed when the flack said that Davis hadn't made up his mind and still needed to 'read the bill,' asking the guy why Davis didn't know what was in it by now, considering the notoriety and extreme pressure that it had gotten. The flack finally hung up on them. Then when they discovered that all the calls to the normal governor comment line we just going to voice mail hell, they gave out the press office number. The head press guy called the station management and went nuts, calling J&K 'boneheads'. They love that. On the second day, they started giving out other internal Davis administration phone numbers. The press office retaliated by call-forwarding their incoming lines to the incoming lines of the KFI press room, jamming them. Some phone company employee called to comment that that was probably illegal under Federal law, because that law requires that call-forwarding be done only with the permission of the recipient.
At one point, they gave out the phone numbers of the district offices and had people calling there, then reporting on the air what they were told. Turns out the staffers answering the phones were lying to the callers, telling them that calls had generally been running in favor. Doubtful, since the J&K listeners were about the only ones getting though. One caller reported that he challenged that statement and the staffer giggled and admitted that they've been fudging.
It's been quite a circus, and I expect the hilarity to continue today. (Infoing you on this story too, Ernest. Thought you might be amused.)
I might be mistaken, but I think Hugh Hewitt on his radio show was using this reference even before that. Maybe Debra 'borrowed' it. Or perhaps the comparison is so obvious that people are making it independently.
I think the latter, especially. Garry South or some other high-ranking administration official retaliated against the COPS endorsement of Simon by getting the head of that organization thrown off the state board (I think) that Davis appointed him to. Thereby assuring even MORE coverage of the whole thing. Now somebody has taken steps to bludgeon an obscure publication and managed to get the story picked up by a major state paper. These aren't exactly PR rocket scientists handling Davis' affairs, are they?
I am a lover of strawberries and thought the Linking Davis with Captain Queeg was appropriate!
Let's see...
Davis is keeping up with a lousy $8,447 of job ads, but hasn't a clue about $90 million of Oracle licenses?
But that's just the headline Davis got from the Capitol Weekly -- a little (10,000 subscribers) paper that caters mostly to state employees looking for new job opportunities... And while Maviglio refers to the Capitol Weekly as "bird cage liner," Mandler appears to have gotten the last laugh.
I guess that's the Davis style. Just ask COPS.
-PJ -PJ
But will it happen? - I'm not holding my breath for a paper dominated by public employee unions to shoot their movement in the foot.
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