Chitchat on the Party Line, Major donors are given an unfiltered channel t

[Rose Siding]

Major donors are given an unfiltered channel to Schwarzenegger’s office for strategy sessions.

SACRAMENTO -- When wealthy contributors write checks to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, they often get a few canapes and a drink — and a secret telephone number that grants them access to his closest advisors and even the governor himself.

Twice a month, donors can become insiders' insiders — invited to participate in conference calls featuring information about Schwarzenegger campaign strategy that his political enemies would love to have. In turn, donors who dial in can give the governor advice.

In the latest such call, a few days ago, Schwarzenegger's media expert, Don Sipple, outlined a strategy "based on a lot of polling" to create a "phenomenon of anger" among voters toward public employee unions. Firefighters, police officers, teachers and other state-paid workers have become the governor's harshest critics this year.

"The process is like peeling an onion," Sipple said, describing a multi-step plan for persuading voters that public-worker unions are "motivated by economic self-interest" instead of "doing the best job for the state."

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-donors5jun05,0,7671231.story?coll=la-home-headlines

*State workers* are "motivated by economic self-interest"??? Oh, the irony.

[AuntiBush]

1. Marie is a "disgrace" to the Kennedy name & the Democrat Party

her family worked so hard for, like human and civil rights. She lost my respect when her joke of a hubby mistreated CA residents!

[housewolf]

2. It was seeing her at the Republican convention that did it for me

What a disappointment.

[saracat]

4. I agree, and many on DU railed at me.

They thought her obligation to Arnie superseded anything else. I don't think in these perilous times her spousal duty supersedes her duty to her state and country, but I guess I go "too far" with my ideology! for some.

[MisterP]

7. "Only someone who worked for 'Democrats for Nixon' could pass himself

off as the new Kennedy"
--someone about Reagan

[Rose Siding]

3. "phenomenon of anger"! They POLLED to see if that would play

I'm livid! That someone in a leadership position would actually ENCOURAGE people, for political reasons, to turn against their neighbors, tapping AGAIN into the GOP's natural proclivity for appealing to the LOWEST common denominator in us JUST BLOWS ME AWAY

:cry:

Then they whisper about it to the WEALTHY, the ones who REALLY serve their own financial interests.

They freaking PAID to POLL about it :grr: :cry:

God FORBID any union try to hang on to health insurance for their middle class members. It's a crime. :(

[Ouabache]

5. It's the phenomena of unions 'sticking together' in the economic

interests of their members and the socio-economic class to which they belong that really irks Arnie's Aryan Elites.

[Sydnie]

8. Just need to counter by reminding the voters that

a landslide could happen to them. Who would be there to dig them out? An earthquake could happen to them. Who would be there to dig them out and bandage their wounds? These municipal/union workers are the same as the ones that were killed on 9/11/2001 in NY doing their "best job" for the citizens. If they can invoke 9/11 to create fear, why can't we invoke it to remind people about the pride they felt for these very same people doing the toughest jobs for us all?

Arnold makes me want to :puke: with this crap.

[anitar1]

6. If Arnie thinks Maria will rescue him

He is sadly mistaken. I am sick of the public thinking that a Kennedy connection will elect sonmeone. No way!! He is an Austrian Nazi in my opinion.He is a total ass.

[norml]

9. The politics of hate and fear, the scapegoating State workers

all for the greater glory of Arnold. The agenda of these monsters of the evil movement that calls itself conservative is always about destroying public services, protections, benefits, and rights.

[xxqqqzme]

10. R these reptilian rethugs counting

as 'state paid workers' the ones ordered to participate in the 'support arnie' rally @ the state house recently?

inquiring minds want 2 know.

Their polls show the voting public will turn against nurses and firefighters? Anyone who has ever been hospitalized knows the demands on nurses as well as their responsibility, for which they R not paid well.

I will B so glad when that asswipe is no longer governor.

[Democat]

11. When Davis took donations, the media said he was evil!

When Arnold takes money, it proves how popular he is.

The California media is a disgrace!

[Rose Siding]

12. Well cast, Arnold! Mr Sipple knows a bit about anger, doesn't he?

Regina and Don Sipple divorced in 1979. From left: Regina in an early modeling photo and after an alleged 1977 beating by Don.

The True Character of a Spin Doctor?

snip>
Regina guessed that her ex-husband, Donald Sipple, one of the Republican Party's most successful political consultants, would do everything in his considerable power to portray her as a bad mother who didn't deserve custody of their son. In politics, Sipple was a master of manipulation -- that's why Republican senators and governors and presidential candidates had paid him millions. Sipple's skill at creating emotional and persuasive political advertisements had landed him jobs with some of the GOP's top figures, including Bob Dole, George Bush, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, and California Gov. Pete Wilson. Regina, by comparison, was a single mom struggling to raise a son -- 13 years, she and Evan had been alone together. Without a lot of money, without a lot of help -- just each other. Evan didn't even want to live with his father. He wanted to stay with his mother, in California, where he played football and tooled around with computers. But in Regina's experience, her ex-husband didn't hesitate to use the skills of manipulation in his private life as well as his public one, and she worried.
.....
It's not easy to speak up against a man who has made a living discrediting other people's public statements. Now 44 and living in Huntington Beach, California, Regina Sipple declines to speak openly about her ex-husband, saying she fears it would jeopardize Evan's fragile relationship with his father. Evan himself says, "I don't think I can talk because it would really get me in a jam with my dad."
.....
This article is based on court documents, depositions, and transcripts of the custody case. It's also supported by the accounts of friends and relatives of Sipple's ex-wives. Some, worried about the consequences of speaking out within the small world of Republican politics, asked to remain anonymous. But they agreed to speak because they are disturbed that a man they believe to be violent is advising leaders of the GOP........

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1997/09/blow.html

[Straight Shooter]

13. That's disgusting. The "party of moral values" is a mockery of values.

Thugs. Just a bunch of thugs.

[Kadie]

14. Dialing for Arnold: Schwarzenegger donors get access to advisers

Dialing for Arnold: Schwarzenegger donors get access to advisers

Sunday, June 5, 2005



(06-05) 16:48 PDT Los Angeles (AP) --


Top contributors to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have been rewarded with a private telephone number that gives them access to his closest advisers — and even the governor himself.

The Los Angeles Times on Sunday said major donors are invited twice a month to participate in conference calls featuring information about the governor's campaign strategy. In turn, donors who dial in can give the governor or his advisers advice.

The Times said it was given access to the conference call Thursday by a participant. The newspaper did not identify that person.

In the half-hour call, Schwarzenegger media strategist Don Sipple outlined a plan to create a "phenomenon of anger" to turn voters against public employee unions that have been among the governor's harshest critics, the newspaper said.

"The process is like peeling an onion," Sipple said in the call, describing a strategy for persuading voters that the unions are "motivated by economic self-interest" instead of "doing the best job for the state."

more...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/05/state/n164801D10.DTL

[gmoney]

15. Worst Governator Ever

[rocktivity]

16. GOP SOP

All the freedom money can buy.

:headbang:
rocknation