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A Los Angeles labor leader now the target of a corruption probe routinely ordered employees of a charity he headed to work on campaigns for political candidates -- a practice barred by law -- according to people who said they participated in such activities. Tyrone Freeman, president of the Service Employees International Union's largest California local, later denied to the Internal Revenue Service that the charity employees were required to do campaign work, said a person close to an IRS inquiry into the matter. Because they are subsidized by taxpayers, charities are forbidden to take part in campaigns for public...

The final tally in today's recall election may not include the would-be votes of many students on the CSU-Monterey Bay campus. That's because there is no polling place there today, something that comes as a surprise to some students. The campus was one of 100 precincts that was either consolidated with other polling places or eliminated for today's vote as a cost-cutting measure by the county. During normal elections, ballots are cast at 191 polling places throughout the county. Today, voting will take place at 91 sites. At CSUMB, campus residents registered to vote were automatically sent absentee ballots, but...

McClintock is a great guy! I agree with him and if I could wave my magic wand, I would make him the Gov. of California...no questions asked. Now, back to reality. McClintock is running BEHIND Arnold and should DROP OUT for the good of the Republican party and for California...who cannot take any more liberal Governors! Yes, he could stay in .... and after the election his supporters can say WE SURE SHOWED ARNOLD... as we watch Bustamonte sworn in to office. Headline: STUPID PARTY STRIKES AGAIN When Republicans unite, Republicans WIN. When Republicans are divided, democRATS win. We can...

Casino cash funneled to Cruz: $3 million. Labor cash pledged to the governor’s anti-recall movement: $10 million. Former Groper-in-Chief Bill Clinton in church citing New Testament Scripture and praying for Gray Davis: priceless! What’s next? We already know. The most solidly pro-Democrat court in the country acts on a brief by Democrat satellite groups, politically intervening to halt the recall election already in progress. And citing, no less, the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision as its basis: downright phantasmagorical. And just a tad cynical, I might add. Davis supporters are now wetting their pants, squealing in ecstasy that the...

If I don't answer your post right away, it means I'm out and about getting votes for Arnold in my community. Cheers! CC :)

Official Sample Ballots for the California October 7 Special Election have been mailed in my county. I counted a total of 169 candidates for Governor of California on the ballot.Number of candidates per party Democrats = 50 Republicans = 42 Independents = 32 Libertarians = 2 Greens = 4 Natural Law = 2 American Independent = 1 Peace and Freedom = 1 Unknown = 1

Drawing determines alphabetical order for Oct. 7 ballotBy Jim Wasserman ASSOCIATED PRESS 1:59 p.m., August 11, 2003 The first letter chosen was R, followed by W, Q and O. The six-minute grab bag of letters seemed more like a lottery drawing than a routine process, which is done every election to help erase the estimated 5 percent advantage a candidate gets from being at the top of the ballot, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said. The letters H, B and S, were drawn as eighth, ninth and tenth, [my correction: 9th, 10th, 11th] meaning that some high-profile candidates, commentator Arianna...

The word is that Arnold Schwarzenegger has the race all locked up. Don't believe it. Governor Gray Davis may indeed be recalled. And Arnold Schwarzenegger may in fact become governor. But neither outcome is preordained. The CNN-Time poll released this weekend has received international coverage. It shows the recall comfortably ahead, and Schwarzenegger clearly out in front. The Terminator already is at 25 percent, compared to Democrat Cruz Bustamante at 15 percent, Republican Tom McClintock at 9 percent, Republican Bill Simon at 7 percent, and independent Arianna Huffington, Republican Peter Ueberroth, and Democrat Larry Flynt tied at 4 percent each....

By TOM CHORNEAU, Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Gray Davis (news - web sites) called the effort to recall him an insult to those who voted for him last year, and Bill Simon, one of the Republicans challenging him, cited his vision for the future Monday and promised to be "the candidate of ideas." AP Photo   "I don't like this but I am trying to suppress those negative feelings and channel my energies into doing something positive for the people I work for, the people of this great state," Davis said in an interview broadcast Monday on...

EMERGENCY FREEP this Saturday!SHOW OUR OUTRAGE OVER TAX FUNDED UNION THUG TRAINING!As Reported on Free Republic State Funds Being Used to Fight Recall Recall Gray Davis Committee mail list ^ | July 29, 2003 | Recall Davis Committee via comwatch  JUST IN FROM: Howard Kaloogian Chairman, Recall Gray Davis Committee NEED RECALL SUPPORTERS FOR SATURDAY MORNING IN SACRAMENTOA quick note to our northern California friends to remind them that we need as many people as possible to join us for a recall rally/protest in Sacramento on Saturday morning (August 9th at 8:30 AM) in front of the Sheraton Grand...

UNION THUGS and LIARSBlood Suckers NOT TaxpayersFrom: http://www.stoptherecall.com PDN branded extremists by the...   When all else fails, lie! Gosh... we must be doing something right to make their list! PDN Webmaster's Note: Of the hundreds of photos and pages devoted to true patriots, they're outraged because a mere one or two on the recall movement, ranks in the top five positions in every search engine on the internet. They can only dream of such ratings.  Besides, for PDN to be included in a list with such notables as CRA and the California Republican Party suggests we've arrived for all...

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...

RECALL RALLY MOMENTS in PICTURES These are thumbnails from the PDN Website - Click to open full image in new window. PDN has many more photos to sort through and post with commentary. It was a pleasure to share booths space with our friends from the Anti-Tax Rally last month and an honor to finally meet and be able to introduce the founder of FreeRepublic.com, Jim Robinson to the many PDN and local grassroots folks in attendance.     1 & 2 Mark Williams first up of many talk show hosts to address rally. 3 to 7 Crowd scenes hour...

A PICTURE WORTH A 1000 WORDS When you read the online edition of the Sacramento Bee, you won't likely find a photo of Freepers (Free Republic members) on the front page. That might acknowledge the vital role that such grassroots organizations have played in restoring the State of California back into the hands of The People!  There will be a lot of discussion threads on the early success of the Recall Davis movement. Lets not forget it's genesis while the professional hit men and women cast the stones labeling the movement in the most vitriol terms they can muster. It's...

Monday, July 21, 2003 Assessing recall petitions straining counties The deadline is Wednesday to deliver their verdicts to the secretary of state. By ALEXANDRIA SAGE The Associated Press SAN BERNARDINO – Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and his allies aren't the only ones getting headaches from the Republican-led recall drive that could qualify for the ballot this week. The recall also creates burdens for elections officials in California's 58 counties, who have the task of counting the more than 1.6 million signatures submitted by proponents, verifying them through random sampling, and reporting totals to the secretary of state by Wednesday. "It's...

Nope, it wasn't us, they say. Supporters of Bill Simon for governor — both last year, and now as a candidate in a probable recall election — say it wasn't their loyalists who sent out an e-mail letter signed "Team Simon" volunteers and advising Simon to sit out the election to avoid splitting the party vote and worse. Joel Strom, the Team Simon chair, says no one from his statewide leadership group wrote such a letter, and whoever did "did not accomplish the goal he/she apparently set out to achieve and, in fact, only helped to sharpen our focus on...

<p>Organizers of a campaign to recall Gov. Gray Davis shut down their paid signature-gathering effort Monday, saying they have enough voter signatures to trigger what would be a historic election to remove a sitting California governor.</p> <p>It took most of the day to get the word out via cellular phone to 1,200 petition circulators, who were told to pack up the card tables and clipboards they had staffed since mid-May at shopping centers from Yuba City to Barstow to the Mexican border.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - If California's Republicans get their way, Democratic Gov. Gray Davis will join a club so exclusive it has only one member - Lynn J. Frazier, governor of North Dakota during World War I.</p> <p>Frazier served from 1917 to 1921, when he became the first - and for now, the only - governor recalled from office.</p>

Homosexual Activists Don’t Want Voters to Decide December 2001 Three homosexuals stand right beside a man as he tries to sign the Protection of Marriage petition outside the K-Mart at Holyoke. As he begins to sign, they close in and the blocker on the right appears to be attempting to bump the clipboard. If successful, this could invalidate the entirepetition, which could have up to 39 signatures. The black blocker and a blonde blocker attempt to bump the clipboard of another man who is trying to sign the petition. The blonde woman blocker attempts to intimidate a petition gatherer by...

<p>Anti-recall organizers seized on revelations Wednesday regarding the past arrest record of Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the chief financial backer of the effort, while Republicans argued the news was unlikely to derail the movement to oust Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.</p>