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California: Coincidence or revenge? Jobs story embarrasses Davis, bites publisher
SF Chronicle ^ | July 8, 2002

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: calgov2002; knife
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To: ElkGroveDan
GIF now wallpaper and the first line of the "Queeg Soliliquy" now the scrolling screen saver on one State desktop computer...

Too funny, EGDan
21 posted on 07/08/2002 12:31:20 PM PDT by L,TOWM
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To: Zack Nguyen; seenenuf; L,TOWM; My2Cents
I can't take the credit. The idea of comparing Davis to Captain Queeg and his strawberries (Cain Mutiny) came from a classic article Debra Saunders wrote back in March after Davis lost his marbles in an interview with the San Diego Union Tribune.

Read the article here

22 posted on 07/08/2002 12:39:58 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan
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To: L,TOWM
By the way, I highly recommend the video of this classic. Followers of California politics really should see it -- several times.

The Caine Mutiny (1954)

23 posted on 07/08/2002 12:43:59 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan
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24 posted on 07/08/2002 12:49:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: John Jorsett
Unbelievable.....how does he spin this one?
25 posted on 07/08/2002 12:52:40 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: ElkGroveDan; Ernest_at_the_Beach
.....Lieutenant Keefer preaches dissension against Queeg, and labels his erratic behavior as a "paranoia case." He helps to eventually undermine the Captain and encourage a mutiny aboard ship ("Has it ever occurred to you that our captain might be unbalanced?...Captain Queeg has every symptom of acute paranoia. It's just a question of time before he goes over the line").

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."

26 posted on 07/08/2002 1:12:40 PM PDT by Liz
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To: John Jorsett
Anyone who has dealt with freedom of speech issues online knows exactly the best course of action to take in situations like this. It's no secret.

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

27 posted on 07/08/2002 1:29:06 PM PDT by daviddennis
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To: doug from upland
70% of the audience hasn't seen that movie.
28 posted on 07/08/2002 1:34:26 PM PDT by Carry_Okie
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To: Liz; Zack Nguyen; seenenuf; L,TOWM; My2Cents; doug from upland
Hey look what I found You need to have the RealAudio player...
29 posted on 07/08/2002 1:43:39 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan
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To: ElkGroveDan
ROFL!!!!!!!!! To quote Homer Simpson's boss, Mr. Burns, "Exxccccccccccelllent!"
30 posted on 07/08/2002 1:55:24 PM PDT by My2Cents
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To: ElkGroveDan; Registered
The Caine Mutiny starring Humphrey Bogart as the paranoid Cap'n Queeg - one of my favorite classic movies. Grayout Davis would be great in that role.

Calling Registered.... we need you.

31 posted on 07/08/2002 2:04:41 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks for the ping, check the new banner.

What's with the strawberries? Linking Davis with Captain Queeg? It'd be more than appropriate.

32 posted on 07/08/2002 2:07:04 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: My2Cents; Ernest_at_the_Beach
There was another story I saw this morning that said that listeners to KFI last week called the governor's office to urge him to veto the air emissions legislation, but the number they called was the press office, not the legislative or constitutent service office. Consequently, a Davis staffer said that "all the calls were in vain,"

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.)

33 posted on 07/08/2002 2:23:15 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: ElkGroveDan
The idea of comparing Davis to Captain Queeg and his strawberries (Cain Mutiny) came from a classic article Debra Saunders wrote back in March after Davis lost his marbles in an interview with the San Diego Union Tribune.

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.


34 posted on 07/08/2002 2:27:47 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: daviddennis
Gray Davis is a fool - or he has fools for advisors.

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?

35 posted on 07/08/2002 2:33:24 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
Good for them! And good for those listeners who took action by calling the Governor's office. Davis' lack of leadership, and confusion, is no better illustrated than in this example where the people actually let their voices be heard -- it caused confusion and consternation in the Governor's office. Good work!
36 posted on 07/08/2002 3:38:54 PM PDT by My2Cents
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To: John Jorsett
That is funny!!

I am a lover of strawberries and thought the Linking Davis with Captain Queeg was appropriate!

37 posted on 07/08/2002 3:43:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: ElkGroveDan
What a slime. This should be sufficient to know that dimbulb will stop at nothing.
38 posted on 07/08/2002 3:59:46 PM PDT by Angelique
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To: John Jorsett
Whatever the case, on June 20, Mandler's phone line started lighting up when -- one after another -- representatives of more than a dozen state agencies called to say they had been told by the governor's office to pull their Capitol Weekly ads. All $8,447 worth.

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

39 posted on 07/08/2002 4:07:31 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too
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To: PsyOp
" He now has a paper that caters to 10,000 govt. employees that has every reason to trash him."

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.

40 posted on 07/08/2002 5:36:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor
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