Manure hits fan after COPS backs Simon campaign

San Diego Union Tribune ^ | June 18, 2002 | John Marelius

[old school]

Police Unions are labor organizations. They often lend their support to democrat candidates, (generally to the chagrin of the rank and file, who are more conservatively oriented), because they're pro-labor.

[SunStar]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this same group of Cops SUPPORT DAVIS last time?

Yes, they supported Davis in 1998!

[Grampa Dave]

Great, you can now considered this to be "borrowed" by me!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!!

I like that!

[ElkGroveDan]

[CyberAnt]

He was just in San Diego, for cryin' out loud! Where were you!! He's meeting with Laura Bush for a luncheon - in SF, and then a DINNER with the President!!

[DoughtyOne]

Good.

[PsyOp]

A few quotes that seems to fit.

By the time most politicians learn the job they were elected to do, it?s usually time to bring them up on charges. - anon.

The first requirement of a statesmen is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve. - Dean Acheson, Observer. June 21, 1970.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high. - Aristophanes, The Knights. 424 b.c.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From another thread:

California Governor Gray Davis looks like he made a U Turn on the way to becoming an albino.

FIXTURES: MAKE THEM GO AWAY!

The thread is a great laugh!

[AlGone2001]

A March memo from Holden to COPS directors circulated yesterday by the Davis campaign depicts a financially struggling organization that was losing members.

The dems aren't interested in the small guy? Who is surprised?

[Jagdgewehr]

State employees doing their part for Govenor Davis.

[Gophack]

In the memo, Holden says a Simon endorsement would be "a huge recruiting tool" among Republican rank-and-file police officers.

Hmmmmm .... Republican rank-and-file police officers ... and Davis thinks that he has law enforcement locked up? I think not ... Obviously, this Holden is listening to his membership.

Go Simon!

[CounterCounterCulture]

AWESOME! The Davis and South are deep in the Barbra Streisand...

[BOBTHENAILER]

Thanks for the Ping. I've spent the last thirty minutes ROFLMAO. Go Simon.

Even though I'm not a Californian, I can see that my Simon contribution is worth its weight in gold, and thats no horsesh!t.

[goodieD]

heeheehee... this is better than cold lemonade on a hot day!

[IronJack]

Notice the slap at the organization:

COPS claims to "represent" 5,000 law enforcement officers but is far smaller when it comes to dues-paying members.

It's okay to pad the numbers for left-wing fringe groups, but a union that supports a Republican candidate??? They must be just a handful of malcontents.

[MattinNJ]

"You're right-I didn't mean to say Davis should be hauling garbage....I meant to say he should be hauled away AS garbage."

Ah, evidence of a misspent youth.

[Itzlzha]

"You're right-I didn't mean to say Davis should be hauling garbage....I meant to say he should be hauled away AS garbage."

LOL

A paraphrase of the dialog...

"I gave it the Davis Campaign!"

"You...gave it to the Davis Campaign?!?!"

"Aye! I sent the whole kit an' kaboodle over to the Campaign headquarters...where it'll blend right in with the other filth there!"

[ru4liberty]

A little something to help get things moving...

[fuzzthatwuz]

""They're a bunch of money-grubbing mercenaries who sell out to the highest bidder, and we didn't play with them in the primary, so they got (ticked) off and went in the other direction," South said."

Golleee, Gary... You sure became a major participant in this goat ffff! Your petty little ego bit off more than Davis can chew.