Arnold's new strategy, based on polling, to create a "phenomenon of anger"

[Rose Siding]

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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."

The Thursday discussion, involving multiple contributors and three top Schwarzenegger strategists, offered a rare glimpse of the governor's "donor maintenance" effort: insider information, solicitous compliments, invitations to exclusive parties. It was also a window on the governor's attack strategy ahead of an expected Nov. 8 special election.

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

That's right. An elected official *polling* to devise a strategy that will turn people against their neighbors. A plan, whispered to wealthy contributors to keep them appraised on the value of their purchase.

Now who is it again who is "motivated by economic self-interest"?

[napi21]

1. I thought the poeple of Ca were seeing through this idiot!

Do you really think this strategy will work>

[snowbear]

2. That article should piss off California residents.. and..

Ahnold the brainless for being exposed.. :rofl:

I'm not sure what Californians think.. but I wonder if they think he'll run again?

Remember his fear of debates? He was a no-show at the 2 most critical debates and only agreed to show up at the one that provided the questions ahead of time..

As the incumbent, he'll have to debate in EVERY poll.. I think he'll wuss out myself and won't run. Just a hunch :shrug:

[Erika]

3. Ahnold wants Californians to hate public servants ?

Why doesn't Maria dump the gropinator?

[snowbear]

4. Well...

There could be a few things he's good at.. :o :o :o :o

........ :rofl:

(oh.. p.s. edit: that's in response to the "why doesn't maria dump him" question) ;)

[blondeatlast]

17. Get a load of MMOB's "pillow talk" campaign directed to

Maria:

http://www.themmob.org/maria/maria.html

I love the MMOBsters!

[lady lib]

5. What I love about this is that they're stupid enough to admit

their strategy. Hellllloooo.

[Carolab]

6. DISGUSTING.

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."

I'm sickened by this kind of thing. This is an OUT and OUT lie. As if "privatizing" these services will deliver better and less expensive services to the people. Just another open door to poor service at the hands of untrained, inexperienced and unqualified low-wage workers, corruption, overcharging, kickbacks, padding and VICE, to say nothing of leaving thousands of people unemployed.

Who is this overpriced, overpumped up, steroid-addled idiot to stand there and act this way?

[Erika]

7. Yeah, Ahnold is not exactly a model of a citizen

but Maria is most disappointing.

[JDPriestly]

8. Californians need to see Enron

I wish Move-On would buy air time to show the movie Enron on prime time TV. It reveals a lot about how Schwarzenegger got to power and how damaging deregulation and privatization of basic infrastructure can be.

[mrdmk]

9. This is a sign of excellent leadership

Divide and conquer.

[jfern]

10. Put out the message

Arnold says the NYPD and NYFD hate America.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Yes, clearly teachers, firefighters and cops are

useless to society and "motivated by economic self-interest".

Unlike, say, fucking Bad Action Movie Stars.

[Missy M]

12. I guess "motivated by economic self-interest" now means...

making a salary to lead a middle-class life, good health care and a retirement that you can live on. On the other hand making $20 million dollars for a bad movie is not economic self-interest.

[blondeatlast]

18. Damn straight.

That man should thank his lucky stars he receives a paycheck, period.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Arnold's so inept that this will backfire.

He can't turn the public against the public servants who pull children out of burning buildings, who protect the public from criminal harm, and who help build the future by teaching the next generation how to be good citizens.

Uh uh. (Head shaking) These folks are society's guardian angels and hanging a moniker of greed and self-interest won't stick to them, union or not.

[Rose Siding]

14. Son of a gun: Some history on Mr Sipple's familiarity with anger...

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?

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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.
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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."
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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

[DemoTex]

15. France has the answer ...

The General Strike.

[Richard Steele]

16. The Gov who admires Hitler is SCAPEGOATING now. What a shock.

Not.

[SpiralHawk]

19. MRP (More Republican Propaganda)

They really are the Party of Propaganda -- all the frikkin time.

Hey, it's OK to tell the truth.

[DeepModem Mom]

20. Anger by haves against have-nots, fundies against mainstream --

the hallmarks of extreme-right-wing Republican power, the seeds of the destruction of our system as we've known it --

[dchill]

21. All I did...

was read the title to this thread, and IT WORKED. California voters are smart enough to direct the "phenomenon of anger" to the right place. Fear not.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

22. "The process is like peeling an onion," Sipple said...

Peel this.