Posted on 10/28/2005 6:28:52 AM PDT by RonDog
Here is aan e-mail that I just received:
Genvieve Peters (no relation), who I recruited for the LA bus tour team, is certifiably insane and brings new meaning to the phrase "earned media". Forget about the baloney delivery stunt, this one clearly takes the cake.When David Pegos tried to stage a counter protest today at the Latino union rally with Nunez and Villaraigosa in Downtown LA I put him in touch with Genvieve. She showed up in her red Arnold t-shirt with her signs ALL ALONE. Instead of going home (which I would have told her to do if the lunatic had called me), she quietly made her way into the middle of the crowd and positioned herself in front of the podium.
When Villarogosa finished speaking, she spun around and waived her "YES on 74-77" signs for the cameras. The media converged on her. The union thugs converged on her.
As the media asked her why she was there, the thugs started hitting her over the head with their "no" signs, tearing up her signs and pouring water on her as she loudly proclaimed to the cameras that she was there because she used to be a teacher in an ESL class and she knows that the children of all these wonderful hardworking people deserve a better education and their unions are lying to them!!!
The media ate it up. She was interviewed by Channels 2 & 9 as well as by the Spanish media. The thugs kept complaining that she was stealing their news coverage. Luckily one very kind (and quite large) union member escorted her to her car - all the while flashing gang signs at his fellow union members warning them to back off. Thank God she's home safe and sound. I'm buying her dinner (right after I stop screaming at her for taking her life in her hands)!
Heather Peters
Regional Political Director
Governor Schwarzenegger's Initiatives Campaign
Good for her!
Kindly? He may have been the only one with more than two brain cells to realize the bad press the union was getting out of this display.
I saw her on my local news cast last night and the media actually showed her being assulted and showed her arguing with the union mobsters.
What I didn't notice on the news was any POLLING data about where the propositions stand. Just the usual anti-Arnold sentiment, the sky is falling talk. The local news seemed to imply the Arnold's propositions are not popular and will not pass. I think they are going to pass BIG and the media knows it and will not publisize this.
I have so HAD IT with the Union Thug attacks! Did Genevieve file a police report! I'd like to see a major lawsuit! Talk their language!
Which proves Arnold is right in his campaign video that it's the unions who are fighting him.
For those of us who got out of the land of fruits and nuts, remind us what prop 77-74 is?Since the California legislature seems to be PERMANENTLY dysfunctional, we have to beat them into submission with ballot initiatives. :(
From a previous thread:
To: Laissez-faire capitalistHere is some info for those trying to decide how to vote:
Voting recommendations from Tom McClintock
#73 – YES
#74 – YES
#75 – YES
#76 – YES
#77 – YES
#78 – NO
#79 – NO
#80 – NO
Proposition 73: Parental Notification for Abortion. If parental consent is required for a child to use a tanning booth or get her ears pierced, shouldn’t parents at least be notified if she’s getting an abortion? YES. Whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice, this should be the all-time no-brainer.
Proposition 74: Teacher Tenure. Do parents have a right to expect a higher level of competence before a teacher is granted life-time tenure? YES. This modest measure simply increases the teacher probation period from two years to five years.
Proposition 75: Public Employee Union Dues. Should public employees decide for themselves which candidates they will support with their own money? YES. This measure requires that before a public employee union can take money from that employee for political donations, it has to get the employee’s permission.
Proposition 76: State Spending. Should government live within its means? YES. This measure restores the authority that the governor of California had between 1939 and 1983 to make mid-year spending cuts whenever spending outpaces revenue without having to return to the legislature.
Proposition 77: Re-districting. Should voters choose their representatives in legislative districts that are drawn without regard to partisan advantage? YES. The most obvious conflict of interest in government is when politicians choose which voters will get to vote for them by drawing their own legislative district lines. This measure puts a stop to it.
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Propositions 78 and 79: Prescription drug discounts. Do you want the same people who run the DMV to run your pharmacy? NO. These are rival measures, one supported by drug companies and the other by liberal activists – both of which purport to lower drug prices. What they really do is assure that one group of patients gets to pay higher prices to provide subsidized prices for others. There’s no such thing as a free Levitra.
Proposition 80 Electricity Regulation. Do you want the same people who run the DMV to run your electricity company? NO. This measure locks in monopoly control of your electricity by the bureaucratized utilities and forbids you from ever being able to shop around for the lowest-priced electricity available.
I got that email from Tom - and I have saved it in Word. I post it everytime I see a thread about these propositions.
I saw yesterday that somebody had taken a poll over in Monterey - where all the liberal elites live (except for those hard working people who meet all their needs), and according to that poll, there is NO SUPPORT FOR THE PROPOSITIONS. Well .. I don't believe that .. and Tom has been propping up 76, which was the only one that was lagging beind in support.
BTTT
What I didn't notice on the news was any POLLING data about where the propositions stand.See also, from www.fresnobee.com:
Governor's special election in spin cycle
Arnold Schwarzenegger's war on Democratic legislators and their labor union allies may have begun with his famous — or infamous — remark in July 2004 that the lawmakers were "girlie men" for refusing to stand up to the unions.
Active hostilities commenced three months later, on Oct. 27, 2004, when Schwarzenegger, appearing before a women's conference, mocked union nurses who were fighting with him over work rules.
"I'm always kicking their butts," a chuckling Schwarz-enegger said. "That's why they don't like me."
Within days, Schwarz-enegger and his aides were drafting ballot measures that became his "year of reform" crusade, confident his soaring approval ratings, then nearly 70%, would seal his dominance of the Capitol.
As it happened, the one-year anniversary of Schwarzenegger's "kicking their butts" remark Thursday coincided with the release of a new poll indicating Schwarzenegger and his anti-union ballot measures are faring poorly. And the poll shifted both sides into full spin cycle.
The poll, conducted for the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), found Schwarzenegger wins approval from just a third of all adult California. And of the four measures he is pushing, PPIC said three are running behind among likely voters and the fourth, requiring public worker unions to get members' permission to use dues for politics, is tied.
"Whose butt is getting kicked now?" anti-Schwarzenegger media maven Steve Maviglio crowed in an e-mail to reporters.
Almost simultaneously, the Schwarzenegger camp, citing tracking polls, claimed three of his four measures are winning...
...Clearly, the Schwarzenegger-business coalition has been hoping for a low turnout in which more conservative voters would vote heavily, but if turnout rises to the level the PPIC poll indicates, that would be a plus for his Democrat-union opponents.Varying expectations of turnout could be one explanation for the seeming contradiction between PPIC's findings and those reported by the Schwarzenegger camp. PPIC gave bare-bones descriptions of the measures while the governor's pollsters may have used their own versions...
Ron old friend old buddy.
You gotta hope Genevieve never sees this thread!
You misspelled her name: Genevieve Paters
Paters?
Oh dear oh dear.
But seriously, congratulations to her on her brave stand! Wish I could have been there.
At least she had no difficulty getting media coverage!
D
Recall Davis Supporters Attacked - BREAKING!!
Recall Supporters Violently Attacked by Gray Davis Thugs (Update)
Amazing but not unprecedented. I hope Genevieve is okay. She looked rattled.
You gotta hope Genevieve never sees this thread!D'oh!
You misspelled her name: Genevieve Paters
It's these FAT FINGERS -- particularly so EARLY in the morning. :o)Sorry, Genevieve.
At least I spelled her FIRST name right!(That is usually the HARD part.)
Anyone ever ID this POS?
Ron old friend old buddy.It is good to hear from you agian, too!
We MISS YOU (and your marvelous CAMERA!) at the L.A. Chapter FReeps.BTW, who are you calling "old" ?
Victoria Ping!
You should see this video. This is one brave woman.
PS see if you can spot the Yankees fan!
I don't remember what happened to the guy.
Hi, CCC!Recall Supporters Violently Attacked by Gray Davis Thugs (Update)
Yes, I remember THAT incident, too!It is ALWAYS dangerous to get between the union thugs and their meal ticket.
As you know, Democratic politicians in this state DEPEND on votes union votes, since most of these unionized government employees are GROSSLY overpaid -- compared to their counter-parts in the (private sector) REAL WORLD.
I saw it on local news also. I know what these union rallies are like, how the people are mindless mush, but this was shocking! Genevieve presented herself amazingly well, considering what had just happened to her, as she spoke in favor of the propositions.
Otherwise, local media, KTLA in particular are campaigning against the props non-stop. The FOR ads are really good. I'd especially like to see 75 pass. I HATE unions.
YES ON 75.
Any info on GOTV in L.A. would be appreciated . . .
omg i forgot about that!
remember that union goon that put a bush supporter in a headlock at a townhall meeting
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