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Backgrounder on the Davis Smear Campaign Against Arnold Schwarzenegger
October 6, 2003
MND NEWSWIRE
The Smear Campaign
Gray Davis:
* Employed Jodie Evans of CodePink, when he was chief of staff to Jerry Brown.
* Appointed Helen Greico, also of CodePink, to a state task force.
* Received $2.5 million in contributions to the No on Recall campaign from the union employer of Gail Escobar.
Arianna Huffington:
* Received a $2,000 campaign contribution from Collette Brooks' ad firm this year.
* Received a $2,325 non-monetary campaign contribution from Collette Brooks for web design.
* Counts Jodie Evans of CodePink as a campaign adviser, according to a Pasadena Weekly Report.
* Counts Jodie Evans also as a Shadow Convention organizer.
THE DETAILS
Arianna Huffington Connections
"In departing the race, Huffington said she would withhold endorsing anyone for now, but would work to prevent a Republican takeover with a week to go
until the Oct. 7 election."
"I'm pulling out. I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that
is the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger."
-------The Associated Press, 9/30/2003
Colette Brooks - Arianna Huffington friend and donor
* Colette Brooks' firm Brooks Grauman Inc donated $2,000 to Huffington's campaign on August 17, 2003 (Source Arianna Huffington's campaign finance report 1/1/2003 through 8/23/2003, Form 460, Schedule A, page 369).
* On August 23, 2003 Big Imagination made a $2,325 non-monetary contribution to Huffington's campaign for web design. (Source: Arianna Huffington campaign finance report 1/1/2003 through 8/23/2003, Form 460, Schedule C, page 454). ------According to the Los Angeles Times (10/4/03):
* "Brooks said she related the story this year to Jodie Evans, a co-founder of the woman's peace group Code Pink, after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy in August."
Jodie Krajewski Evans - Arianna Huffington's best friend and advisor
* According to the Pasadena Weekly, Evans is "one of Arianna's best friends" and "an advisor to Arianna's campaign."
* According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog group, Evans was an organizer of Huffington's 2000 Shadow Convention.
* According to an article published on Change Links, a progressive news website, Evans commented during the Shadow Convention about Huffington's political transformation and their friendship saying, "She's changed. She's been changed by her friends, and I'm proud to have been one for 20 years."
Gray Davis Connections
* Jodie Krajewski Evans - Longtime friend and political ally of Gray Davis
* From 1973 to 1982, Jodie Evans served in administrative capacities in all of Jerry Brown's campaigns and in his staff and cabinet as Director of Administration. In 1990, Jodie was very active in the Big Green campaign. In 1991, she came back together with her friend Jerry Brown to run his campaign for President that was based on political reform and a $100 contribution limit. Following the campaign, she produced the radio program 'We the People with Jerry Brown', a daily liberal talk show (Source: www.badbabes.org website).
* At the direction of Gray Davis, Krajewski destroyed 3000 index cards with the names of people who wrote to Governor Brown who were thought to be potential donors. The destruction of the index cards prevented a subsequent FPPC investigation from moving forward. Krajewski also gave contradictory testimony to the FPPC on how the cards came to her possession. The FPPC later referred the destruction of the index cards to Attorney General John Van De Kamp. (Source: Los Angeles Times, July 10, 1981)
Helen Greico, also of CodePink, was appointed by Davis to the Governor's Task Force on Diversity and Outreach.
Gail Escobar - Representative of Union represented by Richie Ross and actively opposed to recall
* Gail Escobar is a highly visible member of the organizing committee of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 814 chapter in Los Angeles, which has spent $2.5 million to defeat the recall. Escobar recently disrupted a Schwarzenegger rally with allegations against Arnold in the 1970's. The Union is also a client of Cruz Bustamante consultant Richie Ross. (Sources: San Francisco Chronicle October 4, 2003; Secretary of State Lobbying reports, Ross Communications)
I surely hope people haven't changed their minds to not vote for Arnold based on these ridiculous women. In fact, I hope that whether he wins or loses, Arnold sues the "Pants of These Women" for their slanderous lies.
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10-06-2003 08:42 PM
