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Thursday, June 07, 2007

BIG MONEY or grassroots?

New York Times Thursday June 7
ACTIVIST Summer jobs
Restore our Constitutional Protection
$5,500 - $8.500/summer
Work for grassroots campaigns on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union
Stop Executive Abuse of Power
full time/career call Sam (212) 219-1502
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Huh? I don't know about you, but to me, grassroots means VOLUNTEER.

So who is (212) 219-1502?

It's not the ACLU. It's
Grass Roots Campaigns
53 W 36 St
Manhattan, NY 10018

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Grass Roots Campaigns (local advertiser). Employment Placement Agencies, New York, NY 10018. (212) 219-1502 | 53 W 36th Ste 602 New York, NY 10018 ...

New York Office
Address:. 53 West 36 th Street, Suite 602. New York, NY 10018. Phone:. 212-219-1502, Ask for Alex. Email:. nycstreet@grassrootscampaigns.com ...
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Summer Jobs to Take Back the White House: $5500-$8500/summer
Help put the country back on the right path! Call Steve at 212-219-1502. Compensation: $5500-$8500/summer; Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact ...
newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/npo/342585496.html - Jun 6, 2007 - Similar pages

Summer Jobs to Defend Civil Liberties: $5500-$8500/summer
The ACLU is fighting back against illegal laws allowing warantless wiretapping and torture. Call Stephanie at 212-219-1502 ...
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Summer Jobs - Campaign to Help the Democrats Take Back the House ...
Call Rachel at 212-219-1502. How To Apply:. Please contact an office near you, or call our central office at ... Phone:, 212-219-1502. Email:, New York ...
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Apply To Take The Police Officer Exam Today! Call 212-RECRUIT. NYPDrecruit.com ... Help the Dems take the White House Call Greg : 212-219-1502 ...
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Help the Dems take the White House Call Greg : 212-219-1502 · www.grassrootscampaigns.com

Grassroots Campaigns is hiring to work with MoveOn.org Political ...
To Apply: Email your resume to Diane: jobs@grassrootscampaigns.com or apply online at: http://www.grassrootscampaigns.com/. Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. runs ...
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Upon receiving your resume you will be contacted with more information about the specifics of the
positions, and opportunities to interview.
seattle@grassrootscampaigns.com, denver@grassrootscampaigns.com, and on and on and on...We will also be on campus Monday December 11th ...
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So, who is grassrootscampaigns.com?

Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. is a national firm specializing in building grassroots support for progressive causes, political candidates, public interest campaigns, and non-profit organizations.

Winning campaigns in America now means finding new voters, new donors, new bases of support, and building long term movements for political power and political change. Grassroots Campaigns brings together an experienced team of organizers and campaign professionals to provide the progressive community with grassroots fundraising and organizing strategies that can help build a powerful and winning progressive majority in America.

We continue to partner with the DNC to run canvass operations, get more people engaged in the party, raise as much money as possible, and build on the successes of 2006. We’re continuing to work with MoveOn.org Political Action to run Operation Democracy, working with local progressives to make sure that Democrats step up and make changes on key issues.
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So, they're a special interest group paying out all this money for pretend "grassroots" people and THEN -
they have the nerve to post this inspirational quote:
“The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.”
U.S. Senator and grassroots organizer, Paul Wellstone

ACLU? grassrootscampaigns.com? DNC? MoveOn.Org?

Well, lucky for us, they are a CORPORATION, so under Measure T they should be prohibited from funding any local involvement, at least under their real name. How do all the little phony sub orgs (ngos) work under Measure T? Anyone cover that?

But, let's not kid ourselves, these people are really special interest lobbyists, at best, just called by another name. And Salzman? Why he was the one jumping up and down because the Recall Committee paid signature gatherers. They just didn't know how to play the shell game, to hide the money.

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Anonymous6/08/2007 6:11 AM
Oh I learned from Kaitlan and Paulie, corporations are bad. And corporations don't have rights, people have rights. I learned alot from measure T. And by the by, when is Kaities next pancake breakfast?
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Rose6/08/2007 9:09 AM
Didn't you think the activists were volunteers? People who were idealists and just inspired to give of themselves?

You can see by the number of ads that this is no small thing, and they are recruiting heavily on college campuses, especailly in the poli-sci classes. Using craig's list, very clever, makes it look like it isn't a big conglomeration, makes it look like a little grassroots thing.

So - Salzman, ACLU - we all have been wondering where his money comes from. Is it something like this? Is this why he needed copies of everything "for his portfolio'?
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Anonymous6/08/2007 4:25 PM
happy to say O'Rielley(SP) was all over this Soros deal today. He understands that Soros is dangerous to the function of our Republic. Unfortunatly he doesn't see the horrible conection on radical enviro issues. He still thinking with his heart that everyone that says they want a better enviromental situation is honest as he is. As most of us on the battle front of this issue knows, the enviro leaders are all about money,power,and total control. If anyone can get the straight dope to Big Bill it would be of great value. He needs to know that baykeeper,Riverkeeper,Waterkeeper,Etc. equals Soros manipulation.
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Rose6/08/2007 5:02 PM
I used to believe in the SPCA, the Humane Society, the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and even Rainforest Action Network. Learning what I have learned these past 4 years, I now believe them to be more corrupt than any backwoods Southern Good Old Boy stereotype. More corrupt than anyone at Enron ever dreamed of being.

There was a point where what they were doing was good, and was motivated by all the right reasons. Now it is about money, money and more money and power and dictatorial control.

It is insidious and it is destructive, and ultimately deadly.

Legislation has to be enacted and passed that will impose regulatory oversight on the orgs (ngos).

Bias and hidden agendas have to be exposed at every turn, and special interest groups have to be stopped, just as much as corrupt corporations had to be stopped. They are no different..
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Anonymous6/08/2007 9:35 PM
"More corrupt than anyone at Enron ever dreamed of being."

wow rose... really?
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Rose6/08/2007 10:28 PM
The scope of this thing is amazing. They're recruiting on every college campus across the country...

Summer Jobs in Berkeley : Help the ACLU
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Details 1 State of California Construction Supervisor I - Open ...
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So much for the ACLU's credibility. They're not about protecting civil liberties. Far from it. If they were, they would not be partisan.
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Anon.R.mous6/09/2007 11:15 AM
Sounds like I need a summer job.
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Rose6/09/2007 11:41 AM
Heh! Yeah I was wondering how many people would decide they needed to apply. You too can masquerade as a grassroots "concerned citizen" and get well paid for it.
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Paul Gallegos

The Humboldt County Grand Jury found that "Weak leadership and poor managerial practices" have undermined the office... Implicit in all evidence gathered by the Grand Jury - including interviews with the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) - is the unfortunate truth that the D.A. (Paul Gallegos) exhibits a limited understanding of how things are done in the department" Gallegos "lacks the global perspective needed to keep the department operating efficiently," and quotes an unnamed staff member as saying, "The D.A. (Paul Gallegos) does not fully understand the functionality of many of the things we do here" - Years later, in his own words: "I’m not an administrator, they didn’t elect me to be an administrator, they elected me to make sure this office runs..."

Douglas & Zanotti

CASE TOSSED The district attorney misrepresented the law and failed to provide evidence of former Eureka Police Chief David Douglas' and Lt. Tony Zanotti's innocence during a criminal grand jury inquiry into the 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore, defense attorneys argued in court documents filed Thursday... ”Our judicial system stands as a real and necessary check on the grand jury indictment process,” one of the documents states. “This court has the authority and the means by which to halt this prosecution, which is justified neither by the undisputed facts, nor by the law.”

Gallegos has taken what was "arguably the state's best small DA's office, with a cutting edge CAST program that "trained the trainers"... into a bunch of time serving bureaucratic wannabee brown nosers, lightly sprinkled with a couple of earnest learners who are sure to split as soon as possible.

One weeps for Max Cardoza who won Angellel, and for Maggie Fleming who won so many impossible victories. Mired in Humboldt for personal reasons, they have to suffer the ignominy of working for Paul, with Yougo, yes, yougo who has freed more people as a prosecutor than he did as a defense attorney. As has Paul. Anonymous comment

Gallegos has answers for everything. I’ve never met anyone whose answers came so quickly, with such polish - except about his law school(s). He likely sounded the same way when promising to get prosecutors off their anachronistic “at will” status and onto civil service status. It never happened. Indeed, he told them, “Disloyalty will not be tolerated” – a real morale builder.

He sounds great. What progressive doesn’t want to believe in him? But it’s a myth. He’s an intellectual lightweight and self-aggrandizer who tries to please everybody with glib answers. Jim Fahey for The Arcata Eye

The Humboldt County DA's office is one of the most exciting prosecutorial
offices in California.

Its District Attorney, Paul Gallegos, is willing to charge anyone who commits
wrongdoing--no matter how wealthy, sacrosanct, or ruthless. He believes in total equality before the law. He also plans to be innovative in promoting programs of prevention and treatment. He wants to make it the best prosecutorial office of its size in the nation.... Gallegos' Help Wanted ad

Gallegos' OWN Quotes

★ ...District Attorney Paul Gallegos said he believes the statute of limitations clock, even on misdemeanors, doesn't start running until law enforcement knows or reasonably should have known of the offense. In this case, Gallegos said, that means the statute of limitations would not run out at least until Feb. 8, 2009, or one year after Gundersen's arrest and the discovery of the photographs in question...

★ "...some people actually molest out of different feelings, some times out of feelings of love....” DA Gallegos explaining why Child Abuse prosecutions were down

★ “I never said that the information was not available under the Freedom of Information Act. Quite the contrary, I informed you that our use of force policy is not a public record.” Paul Gallegos to the Times Standard 5/25/07

★ ...“One is that I do everything to make people happy which means I don’t stand for anything except for just something,” he said. “The other is I stand for something and I try to be a leader and take some people, a group of people, a community someplace and I say guess what folks, this is who I am. I stand for your beliefs. We share these beliefs or we don’t. You get the option to judge that. This is who I am and I am committed to leading us this place, wherever it is...." Eureka Reporter Gallegos defends record, looks ahead 7/3/2005

★ Note the difference between what he SAID, and what he DOES..."...So what are these issues? Top on Gallegos' list is the proliferation of "garbage cases," small-time crimes and overcharged cases that he said are clogging up the court system.

Garbage cases, said Gallegos, come in two forms: Cases that would lose if actually brought to trial and cases that are overcharged for the crimes committed. The idea behind filing both kinds of garbage, he said, is to get the defendant to plead guilty, netting a conviction without having to go into court.

Again, the IRONY is astounding! Look at what he SAYS, and then think about what he DOES! "Probably 95 percent of the cases that are filed plead guilty. In fact, there are a lot of cases that are filed on the assumption they will plead guilty, because of the time and expense involved in defending them. But these cases shouldn't even be filed in the first place, because if they were challenged, they would lose," Gallegos said. Better yet: If they weren't filed at all, it would save the county time and money...." North Coast Journal 2/21/02 Too bad he didn't take his own advice.

★ “Tim’s a stud,” he said. “He really is; anyone would be stoked to have him.” Gallegos on his second in command right hand man Assistant District Attorney Tim Stoen. (Former second in command right hand man to Jim Jones/People's Temple.)

NOTE:

"Helping Crush Progressivism" - ie: exposing the predatory litigious orgs and those who seek power for power's sake.... The original purpose of watchpaul is to post important documents relating to Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos and his handlers who seek to gain power through the acquisition of political offices. This includes, but is not limited to, the manipulations of "Humboldt Watershed Council," "EPIC," "Baykeeper," and other activist groups - the unregulated orgs. It also includes the master manipulators, such as Richard Salzman and Ken Miller.

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Thursday, June 07, 2007

BIG MONEY or grassroots?

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