Portsmouth Herald: Temp worker outraged at Nader petition drive

[spooked]

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/08072004/news/30854.htm

Temp worker outraged at Nader petition drive

By Joe Adler
[e-mail]


PORTSMOUTH - When the temp agency that hired her told her she would be collecting signatures for independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, Emily Sawka became a little concerned. But she had been unemployed for two months and needed the $12-an-hour the job would pay. "I don’t consider myself a political person at all - I try to steer clear of all of that because it’s disunifying," said Sawka, a resident of Kittery, Maine. "But I needed the work."

But Sawka threw up her hands altogether upon discovering that Adecco, an international temp agency that has an office in Portsmouth, had hired her out to a consulting firm with Republican ties. The firm, Sawka learned, was trying to get Nader on the New Hampshire ballot in November, in a roundabout effort to help get President Bush re-elected in November.

Sawka, 25, and six other workers hired through Adecco were directed to show up on Friday morning at Shaw’s supermarket in Stratham, near the dairy farm where Bush was to speak to supporters at a picnic that afternoon. She was given a clipboard and a script instructing her to tell those at the rally: "Without Nader, Bush would not be president."


"The script given to workers was titled "Talking Tips." To instruct them on how to be more persuasive with Bush supporters, one tip was to say: "In 2000, Nader got almost 30,000 votes - without his presence Al Gore would be president today."

[JNelson6563]

1. Nader's just a run-of-the-mill whore now

He did great things and could've gone on to more greatness. Now he's a sell-out who merits ZERO respect.

Julie

[Citizen Daryl]

2. I agree. What a tragic waste of an otherwise wonderful career.

I voted (proudly) for him in 2000. Nobody was able to shame me from my vote - except Ralph himself.

[aquart]

8. Proudly in 2000?

I never cease to be amazed.

[happynewyear]

3. yeah you are right ...

Ralph is a total awhole extraordinaire IMO. I hope more people learn that he has become just as corrupt and self-serving as the rest of these politicians. Makes me violently ill frankly. :puke:

Screw you Ralph (as if I'd want to). In the meantime, go Cheney yourself.

:dem: :kick:

[RodneyCK2]

6. I agree... I am all for adding more parties to the system...

other views and beliefs are important in a democratic society, BUT, Nader has blurred this tradition with his own self-ideology and interests. Bastard.

[spooked]

5. According to this article, it wasn't FOR Nader!

I don't think Nader knew anything about this petition drive! It was on behalf of the Republicans!


"According to Aaron Rizzio, who runs the petitioning drive for Nader in the state, some collectors with the campaign are paid for their time. But, he added, the workers at the Bush rally were not associated with the Nader campaign.

"That tells me that Republicans are desperate," Rizzio said of the signature drive in Stratham. "And I’m skeptical about how successful it would be."

Last month, Republican volunteers submitted more than 43,000 signatures to get Nader on the ballot in Michigan, which, like New Hampshire, is a swing state. The candidate needed just 30,000 signatures in order to appear on the ballot as an independent."

[uhhuh]

9. It Wasn't for Nader

But Ralph will take those signatures just the same.

If he wasn't an unpricipled ass, he would speak out about this and reject any names gather during this drive. But he won't, because he is an unpricipled ass.

[aquart]

11. Was he planning to refuse the signatures?

Didn't think so.

[JNelson6563]

24. Exactly

It cracks me up to see claims "But Nader didn't do this!" Really? Is he actually showing some character and refusing the sigs the Thugs got for him? Um, no. He has no character anymore. He's a sell out. Of course his devotees claim those of us not in love with Kerry who are voting for him are sell outs with no principles but they cannot see that their hero is a whore.

Selective vision. Sad.

Julie

[doctorbombeigh]

22. All Nader petition signatures are FOR Nader

Duh.

Those Republicans aren't signing petitions to get GWB on the ballot - they're signing FOR Nader. Those same Republicans are contributing cash FOR Nader. They know what Nader himself is unable to admit - supporting Nader IS supporting George W. Bush.

[spooked]

23. yes of course they go to Nader

but it if FOR BUSH...Is that a better way of saying it?

[doctorbombeigh]

25. Nope. Signatures FOR Nader are signatures FOR Bush

And if you really need some way to say it, then...

Nader Backs Bush

Other than Iraq, that's the saddest thing in this election. I never thought I'd see the day when Ralph Nader would try to win the presidency for a scumbag like George W. Bush.

[54anickel]

10. Interesting on who contracted Adecco

The consulting firm, Norway Hill Associates, is located in Hancock. The firm’s principal founder, David Carney, said an intern for the firm was heading up a project to collect Nader signatures at the rally.

Carney, whose past clients include former Republican Senators and presidential candidates Bob Dole and Phil Gramm, said the intern was in charge of hiring between 10 and 15 people. He added that nobody from the Bush/Cheney campaign had asked Norway Hill to collect the signatures.

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In addition to the hourly wage, the temp workers were told they would receive $100 for every 100 signatures they collected, Sawka said. If signers were to ask the workers who was paying them, the recommended response in the script was: "Nader’s campaign pays 75 cents a signature."

[spooked]

16. HOLY CHENEY! Looky Here!

The very same David Carney was Bush Sr.'s White House Political Director!!


Trusted Bush adviser Hughes answers the call
By Anne-Marie O'Connor / Los Angeles Times
Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times
http://www.detnews.com/2004/politics/0404/17/politics-125559.htm

Karen Hughes, a key Bush communications aide, confidante and advisor who left the White House to spend time with her family, is stepping back into the electoral fray.


“I think everyone is relieved she is taking a more active role,” said David Carney, the White House political director during the presidency of Bush’s father. Carney fondly recalls the days when Hughes was a “vicious attack dog” against a Texas district attorney who was trying to prosecute a Republican U.S. senator for corruption. The days when Hughes was “every day taking a chunk out of” a Texas Democratic challenger. The days when Hughes so effectively helped George W. Bush defeat incumbent Richards in the Texas gubernatorial race in 1994.

“There’s no question that Karen Hughes is desperately needed,” Carney said. “When she left there was a dramatic shift. There was a lack of focus and a lack of direction of what the message was coming out of the White House. With Karen there, they were always on message and everyone in the administration spoke from the same sheet of music. The fact that the president’s campaign has started to really aggressively go after John Kerry is a really good sign.”

[54anickel]

17. Amazing that they thought that little fact wasn't important enough

to mention in this article.

[FreakinDJ]

4. Duh ...Who woulda thunk it !!!

[ClintonTyree]

7. Forward this................

to Nader's campaign headquarters. I'm sure they know what's going on, but we have to let them know WE know what's going on too.

Ralph has the audacity to sue the Democrats because they're challenging his petitions' authenticity.

He's a bought and paid for whore of the Republican Party and he and his supporters don't even care.

There was a time when I respected this man.

[aquart]

13. All whores were once virgins.

I remember when it was said about Hubert Humphrey, who had a fine record, and tossed his future to support the Vietnam War.

[54anickel]

15. Sadly, I must agree with you. n/t

[Reciprocity]

12. What a disappointment he turned out to be.

Nader is no longer a advocate for the average person. He is now a fully fledged politician.
'Politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."

[Tuttle]

14. I read a LTTE in the Bridgeport CT Post yesterday

someone looked at their Caller ID and it said Republican National Committee but the caller was soliciting funds Nader!

Tut-tut

[spooked]

18. David Carney also responsible for funding Wellstone attack ads

This same David Carney headed up AJS which was also responsible for attack ads on Wellstone. This si a secret organization out to do Bush's dirty work.


http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/index.mhtml?bid=1&pid=128
Money Flows Into Anti-Wellstone Campaign


"Earlier this year, when Americans for Job Security launched a series of attacks on Wellstone, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party challenged the Virginia group's tax status, In a complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the party asked the IRS to determine whether Americans for Job Security was using its tax-exempt status to hide the sources of its funding. The group is registered as a trade association, a status that permits it to cloak the identities of its contributors. "This is a secret organization using its tax status to conceal its donors," said DFL chair Mike Erlandson. "I believe Minnesotans have a right to know who's contributing to this group."

While the contributors are not identified, there is a good deal of information available to suggest that this group has ties to the Bush administration, the president and his family. Toward the close of the 2000 campaign, Americans for Job Security bought commercials in at least ten major media markets to attack the prescription drug plan of Bush's opponent in the presidential race, Democrat Al Gore. According to The Brennan Center for Justice, Americans for Job Security spent $1.8 million on that attack advertising campaign, making it, according to the Campaign Finance Institute, "the most active (outside group) supporting Bush" in the 2000 campaign.

The Campaign Finance Institute has identified David Carney, a veteran political operative with long ties to the Bush family who served as the political director in George H. W. Bush's White House, as the executive director of Americans for Job Security.

[54anickel]

19. With the light being shed on the Carney ties, how can Ralph and

his campaign spokesman continue to deny he is being used by the Repugs.

From the original story posted:

Kevin Zeese, the Nader campaign spokesman, said he was less concerned about Republican efforts in New Hampshire than he was "about the Democratic Party’s dirty tricks in trying to get Ralph off the ballot in several states."

"We’re going to have enough signatures to get Ralph on the ballot in New Hampshire, no matter what these people do," Zeese said, referring to the Republicans. "I don’t think we’re being used by the Bush campaign. Ralph has said that he wants both parties to stay out of the ballot access process."

The Repugs are NOT staying out of the ballot access process Ralph. This is what the Dems are fighting - no dirty tricks on their part (that I know of). Come on Ralph, admit you're being used and bow out.

[NewHampshireDem]

20. Nice catch!

Great article ... and that girl deserves a medal for getting out her story! :toast:

[spooked]

21. Carney set up a new soft money 527 with Sununu 2 weeks ago

I wonder what they've got up their sleeve...
It's called "American Resolve" after Bush's speech after 9/11:

"These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve..."

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=41488

CARNEY, SUNUNU’S “RESOLVE.”
July 29, 2004

One of the first GOP-leaning “527s” (named for the IRS tax code section that governs such groups) has a pair of well-known Granite Staters in the forefront.

Former Gov. John H. Sununu and a longtime associate, Hancock consultant and former White House Political adviser David Carney, have formed American Resolve, self-described as a “new, proactive conservative 527 political organization” based in Washington, D.C.

Sununu and his longtime friend Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform are co-chairs. Carney is the executive director. Carney said the group intends to “turn the tables on the pro-Kerry front groups and fight fire with fire. Folks from across the nation who understand the need for American resolve will finally have a voice in this debate.”

Carney told the Status that American Resolve is starting from scratch and hadn’t a dime when it was filed with the Internal Revenue Service last Friday.

[Democat]

26. Nader will never be forgiven for trying to destroy America

How many more people must die because of Ralph Nader working with Bush?

[newbie2be]

27. Why blame Nader and not those that vote against the appropriate candidate?

In the end it's the people that vote for Nader instead of Gore, Kerry or whomever is the Dem at the time. Why not focus the anger at them instead of the guy exercising his rights?

[sundancekid]

28. it's NOT about exercising rights ... they both are; it's about Nader's

hypocrisy and what his true slogan is: "Can you see this Emperor's New Clothes, stupid?"
:puke:

[spooked]

29. This story just made USA Today

I hope more people become aware that they're really voting for Bush if they vote for Nader.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-08-07-nader-bush_x.htm

Kathleen Strand, spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party, said she was disappointed to hear about the effort.

"It's an outrage, but I'm not surprised that Republicans would be involved in helping Nader," she said.

[wicket]

30. kick

:kick:

[DeepModem Mom]

31. kick