CA: Scaredy cats - Business fights Prop 90 in self-pity and cynicism (Eminent Domain abuse)

California Political Review ^ | October 9, 2006 | RAY HAYNES

[calcowgirl]

Related:

Marty Wilson, CRP and Prop. 90 Conflict of Interest Hurts Turnout Effort
by Mike Spence,
Flash Report, 10-9-2006

A few weeks ago, the board of the California Republican Party had a teleconference to discuss the mail program of the CRP. Assemblywoman Mimi Walters and the campaign on behalf of Proposition 90 wanted the CRP to include the yes position on all their mailing to GOP Voters. Prop. 90 is a popular issue and will motivate GOP voters to go to the polls.

Some CRP board members agreed and brought this issue up. Enter CRP consultant Marty Wilson. According to my sources Marty was insistent that Prop. 90 could not be on the slate unless they could find $300,000 to fund it. At some point I'm told he was verbally abusive towards the few board members willing to stand up on this.

The board with three dissenters gave carte blanche to Wilson to do as he saw fit.

Now I need to explain, I served on the board of the CRP for six years and I know everyone wants party's help for free and of course that doesn’t always work. Things need to get paid for.

However, we all know the CRP is using Jessica’s Law, Prop. 83 in almost every media communication, not because they helped pay for it, but because it motivates voters. Prop. 90 should be thought of the same way.

Here is the REAL PROBLEM. This year CRP paid Marty Wilson $15,000 as a campaign consultant 4/17, 4/24, 5/08, 6/16, 6/23, 7/28, 8/25, 9/15 and 10K on 4/07 probably more I didn’t see and into the future. (he is also got money in 2005) That’s a nice piece of change.

What the Board and the rest of the CRP membership didn’t know was that four days before the conference call Marty Wilson’s company Wilson-Miller took $15,000 from the No on Prop. 90 campaign for consultanting. So while, Marty Wilson was explaining and berating board members into making sure Prop. 90 was NOT on the CRP mailers, he was on two payrolls at once.

I know I'm not a great speller, But I think it is spelled a conflict of interest.

I don’t know if the CRP is getting their money’s worth in consulting, but the No on 90 folks sure are.

[Attached is a .pdf file showing the $15,000 consulting payment to Marty Wilson's firm on the No on 90's latest campaign disclosure statement.]
Attachment: No on 90 Filing

[calcowgirl]

ping. The enemy within.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

in politics, the Democrats married the unions, who have remained faithful partners. Republicans married the business community, and got a partner who slept around.

Heh heh. Too true.

[calcowgirl]

I forgot to include you in this ping.

[SierraWasp]

Personally, I think it's time to add another initial to CRP!!! It should go right in between the "R" and the "P" and comes from the very beginning of the Alphabet!!!

I am so pleased to be dissociated from the CRP, the CAGOP, or the CRAP, or whatever any of you Repellican FRiends prefer to call it!!!

[SierraWasp]

"...and expecting to emerge about the time the new temple is built in Jerusalem."

C.O. you should now have a new appreciation for this cute phrase... (grin)

ccg... I think Ray comes as close to my standards of a consistent conservative as can be found in CA's legislature! The fact that he's a lawyer makes that astounding!!!

[Carry_Okie]

The truth is, they are being blackmailed because they have indicated time and again to those in power that they can be blackmailed.

Oh yeah Ray, tell us how Eli Broad is subject to blackmail. Tell us that $18 million developers have given to Arnold is just protection money!

What a load. What he's talking about here is the little guys who are his constituency. Either he doesn't understand the CCoC belongs to the big players who own both sides or he's lying.

[absalom01]

Imagine that.

A double-dipping, backstabbing, utterly self-serving campaign consultant.

Who'd a thunk it?

[goldstategop]

Have you noticed all the true socialists are the very wealthy? It stands Marxist dogma upside down. Its not exactly the poor and working class who are for socialism. Quite the inverse is true. Conservatives should pandering to those with a lot of money. Those unwilling to fight for freedom do not deserve to keep it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[HKMk23]

ATTENTION CALIFORNIA BUSINESSMEN:
WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP.

WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE FARMLAND YOU DID NOT SPEAK UP BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A FARMER.
WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY YOU DID NOT SPEAK UP, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A HOMEOWNER.
WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE RENTAL PROPERTY YOU DID NOT SPEAK UP, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A RENTER.
SO, WHEN THEY COME FOR THE BUSINESS PROPERTY, NO ONE WILL BE LEFT TO SPEAK UP FOR YOU.

BY OPPOSING PROP 90, YOU WILL NOT EVADE DESTRUCTION, YOU ONLY UP YOUR ODDS OF BEING DESTROYED LAST.

YOU TWISTED, SICK, SELF-SERVING FREAKS.

GET BEHIND PROP 90 AND PUSH!!

[Czar]

The average property owner/taxpayer has so many enemies now it is becoming virtually impossible to keep track of them.

Once the enemies are identified, however, we do have very long memories. Business (CA Chamber of Commerce) is a known enemy, and we can now add the CA branch of the Stupid Party, aka the CRP.

[Howard Jarvis Admirer]

Wealth people who are for socialism and government regulations make sense: They have their money hidden overseas (like Teddy Kennedy) and run their businesses here (like Pelosi with non-union labor) but use socialism and regulations to prevent the little guy from competing with them and their businesses. They pretend to be for the little guy but in reality drown his chances of successfully competing with them by using socialism and regulations - leaving them at the top of the heap. Profitable hypocrisy - there is a book written about this called, "Do What I Say - Not As I Do".

[calcowgirl]

Bump! You got it!

[calcowgirl]

Personally, I think it's time to add another initial to CRP!!!

Their are all sorts of possiblities there, SW. The word "Corrupt" seems to have a lot of common letters, as well.

[SierraWasp]

They're probably afraid they still be pushing it when they're "pushing 90!"

That sure was a hot and loud reply for someone who was questioning the wisdom of the measure on the CA bulletin board originally! What turned your head around so DRASTICALLY???

[HKMk23]

Well, to begin with, I didn't need all that much turning; I was already enthusiastically behind 90% of the Proposition, and simply wanted some clarification on SEC. 19 (5) -- the "highest and best use" terminology. Now, even had clarification not been forthcoming, I would likely have voted in favor of the proposition on the basis of all the other strong protections it enacts. So, I wasn't ever set against Prop 90, but I can be just that much more unhinhibited in my zeal for it, now that my trepidations w/resp to the aforementioned portion have been set at ease.

"YES" ON 90!!
Because THIS land was made for YOU and ME.

[SierraWasp]

Well, I'm with ya! This one could even err on the side of throwing back the tide of abuse on this subject. Especially over the past 40 years!!!

Business people are the ultimate pragmatists and will throw principles to the wind and settle for anything as long as they can just keep doin more and more BUSINESS!!!

I love 'em, but that's when they act the most whore-like!!! They simply adore manipulating and using the pure force of GOVERNMENT to screw their competition and give themselves a "leg up," so to speak... Sorry to get so graphic, but at least I din't do in in bold-face RED CAPITALS!!! (grin)

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[HKMk23]

Business people are the ultimate pragmatists and will throw principles to the wind and settle for anything as long as they can just keep doin more and more BUSINESS!!!

Hmmmm. Repeating that in RED ALL-CAPS would be most appropriate vis-a-vis our trade relations with China. Nowhere is the whoredom of American business more flagrantly displayed. We're financing the military that will, one day, make an earnest attempt to kill our sons on the battlefield, and we're doing it with a smile that would make a snake oil salesman blush.