My dear brother-in-arms and comrade, Mike Petrelis, has launched a campaign to get Governor Schwarzenegger off his great big muscled ass and into the forefront of the fight against Proposition 8. Schwarzie has said he is opposed to Proposition 8, but where the Hell is he?
Give Arnold’s top political consultants a call, or send them an email, and ask them why Conan the Prop 8 Destroyer is, thus far, MIA.
Julie Soderlund, 916-551-1383,
email: jsoderlund@wilsonmillercom.comAdam Mendelsohn, 916-444-1380,
email: amendelsohn@mercuryllc.com
Mike Petrelis offers this advice:
When you call those numbers, you’ll get a live receptionist. Please be polite and to the point. Tell them you want to reach Soderlund and Mendelsohn to have them convey to the governor that his muscle and voice are needed to defeat Prop 8. Leave your name and number, and request a call back. Or send a similarly polite email.
Bay Area Reporter blogger Cynthia Laird has a little background:
Activist strikes a nerve with governor’s office
By Cynthia Laird, Thursday, October 23, 2008
San Francisco activist Michael Petrelis has gotten under the skin of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s spokespeople, and now a representative for one of them wants him to call off his “phone zap” in which he asked people to call and demand that the governor take a more public role in the effort to defeat Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage initiative.
Petrelis issued his call earlier this week, and provided phone numbers to Schwarzenegger spokespeople Julie Soderlund and Adam Mendelsohn. “When you call those numbers, you’ll get a live receptionist,” Petrelis wrote. “Please be polite and to the point. Tell them you want to reach Soderlund and Mendelsohn to have them convey to the governor that his muscle and voice are needed to defeat Prop 8.”
Soderlund works for the governor. Mendelsohn works for Mercury Public Affairs, which advises the governor. It was Mendelsohn who earlier this week announced that Schwarzenegger would be attending a rally in Columbus, Ohio to stump for Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Halloween.
Schwarzenegger has said publicly that he opposes Prop 8, but has not made any comments about the initiative in recent weeks. A poll released today shows Prop 8 losing, but the gap narrowing (see the B.A.R.’s coverage on the Web site).
On Thursday, October 23, Petrelis told the Bay Area Reporter that a man in Mendelsohn’s office who identified himself as Chris asked him to stop the phone calls.
“He said the phone calls were interfering to much with his work,” Petrelis said.
Reached Thursday, Chris, who declined to provide his last name, told the B.A.R. that he has been “getting calls” as a result of Petrelis’s action. He declined to say how many calls he has received, but said that some of them have come at “inconvenient times”
“This is a busy office,” he said.
“I was trying to direct him to a number in the governor’s office,” Chris said, asking that people call the governor’s office of constituent affairs. However, that number, (916) 445-2841, is largely an automated line. Petrelis said the point of his phone zap was to have callers talk to an actual person.
Chris said that Mendelsohn “is aware” of the calls being made to his office.
Screw aware! This is too important an issue of fundamental rights, fairness and common decency for Schwarzenegger to be hiding out.
The Real Wirthlins – Religious Fundamentalists with brutal tactics
Robb and Robin Wirthlin aren’t who they present themselves to be. __
The Wirthlins moved into the Lexington school district already aware of the “Window and Mirrors” curriculum that was put in place so that second graders, who talk about and paint pictures of their families constantly, would see all students and their own families represented in materials. Not just traditional family children, but children from single parent families, interracial parent families and split-home, divorced families.
Imagine if every racist could prevent their child from hearing about interracial marriage, if every anti-semite could prevent books about Jewish families, if every anti-muslim could prevent books about muslim families. That is what the Wirthlins asked the court to allow them the freedom to do. This is an issue about civil rights, not equality for gay and lesbian Californians. This is an issue about saving our constitution from religious activism of the Mormon Church. I pray to God that you will see the truth. __
The Wirthlin’s son Joey, already knew a classmate, Jessica Soens, who had two mommies. This was not sex ed, this was anti-bias material representing all families, single parent families, interracial families, jewish and muslim families. That was all it was, according to Pam Hoffman of LexingtonCares.org. The Wirthlins moved into the district in order to challenge the curriculum and drug an unsuspecting second grade teacher, Mrs. Kramer, through the courts, devastating her life. This book, though not a good book, was at the school since 1999 as part of an anti-bias diversity program. It had nothing to do with gay marriage. __
Please pray for second grade school teacher Heather Kramer, so brutally attacked by the Wirthlins and the Parkers.
Read more at:
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3414
Yes but no but yes …
This post belongs over here where the worthless Wirthlins are exposed for the dog and pony, servants of the radical religious reich they are.
And, sorry, as an atheist, I don’t really do that preying thing.