Sandra Fluke Comes To Town... With The EMILY's List Smear Machine
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President, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
The bizarrely Californian Dem v Dem California state Senatorial contest between the DCCC’s sweetheart, 33 year old married “co-ed” Sandra Fluke and grassroots activist and native son Ben Allen was going along it’s predictable course with sneak attacks and hushed innuendos, when Fluke decided to go really dirty. While her surrogates had been circulating attacks on Ben and his supporters by e-mail and button-holing confrontations at various events, Fluke’s campaign decided to take a couple of pages from the GWB 2004 playbook. Did Fluke’s double-dealing, sleazy consultants, Hillary Rosen and Anita Dunn of SKD Knickerbocker, known for their support of for-profit private higher education and the XL Pipeline, provide the roadmap for the campaign’s descent into a neo-Nixonian whisper campaign consisting of half-truths, lies and smears masquerading as a poll? When confronted about some of the most deceptive and slanderous “polling” questions, Sandra brushed them off as “only some of the questions in the poll.” Did SKD Knickerbocker also initiate the despicable swiftboat campaign against Ben Allen?
Swiftboating, as you all remember from the Kerry-Bush race, is taking a candidate's biggest asset and turning it into his biggest liability. That is what Sandra and her minions have been doing through vicious, lying e-mails sent by several of her surrogates. They started many months ago.
While serving on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School Board, Ben Allen had a stellar record— most importantly fighting to get the monies raised by the various schools in drastically different economic situations shared equally, so that all children in the district got a great education. In doing so the donations to the entire school system dramatically increased. He also got LEEDS building standards mandated. But with the blessing of Ms. Fluke (aka Mrs. Adam Mutterperl— and why does she hide Adam?) the lies blaming Ben for building materials used decades ago all over this country are e-mailed over and over. Fluke even used the question "If you knew the hair of the children in Malibu was falling out and Ben Allen didn't care would you support him?" in her push poll (a discredited marketing tool) the results of which she then bragged about on a local, progressive radio show and trumpeted in every subsequent campaign press release. [The campaign is pure EMILYs List filth- Editor.]
In any sane electoral system Ben Allen would be running against a Republican. But because of California’s crazy jungle primary system where the top two vote getters in June— regardless of party affiliation— face off in the general election, the top Democratic candidate, Ben Allen is running against the runner up Democrat— Sandra Fluke— who essentially lost the Democratic primary. Were it not for this jungle primary, Sandra Fluke would have endorsed Ben Allen after losing to him in June and gone back to fighting with Rush Limbaugh.
Fluke’s push poll relied on distortions, half-truths and lies about her opponent— but the following poll is based on the real investments Sandra Fluke listed on the mandatory Statement of Economic Interests filed with the California Fair Political Practices Commission:
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in war profiteers, drones, fracking, coal, off-shore oil, nuclear power, toxic pollution, sleazy Republicans, corrupt banks, union busting, unfair labor practitioners would you still vote for her?
Here are the investments:
WAR
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in war profiteer Boeing, which manufactures killer drones, would you still support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in L3 Communications Holdings which is training pilots in Oman to fly fighter jets would you still support her?
ENVIRONMENT
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Pentair LTD which manufactures supplies for fossil extraction including fracking and off shore drilling as well as nuclear power plants, would you still support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Flowserve Corporation which manufactures pumps, valves and seals for boiling water nuclear reactors in the US, the kind that failed in Fukushima, would you still support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in PPG Industries, one of the worst polluters in the entire country, would you support her?
REPUBLICAN SLEAZEBAGS
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in BlackRock, a spinoff of BlackStone, whose owner, Republican billionaire Pete Peterson, is behind a relentless campaign to cut or even end Social Security and Medicare.
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Wynn Resorts which profits off gambling addiction and contributes millions to Republican candidates would you support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Delphi Automotive, whose off-shoring of jobs and indeed the company itself accelerated the demise of the US auto industry, would you support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Kohlberg, Kravitz & Roberts (KKR & Co. LLP) whose leveraged buyouts have cost tens of thousands of jobs would you still support her?
BANKSTERS
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Bank of America whose mortgage fraud helped cause the 2008 economic meltdown would you support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in McGraw Hill Financial, the parent company of Standard & Poors rating service whose AAA ratings enabled the sale of mortgage derivatives that helped crash the economy would you still support her?
HEALTH INSURANCE PROFITEERS
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Aetna Health Insurance which increases profits by denying claims and inflates costs to comply with loss ratios would you support her?
JOBS & WOMEN
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Hanesbrands Inc. whose off shore contractor allows mistreatment of its employees including rape, would you support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Dunkin Donuts Brand Group, one of whose employees died in her car while napping between two of the three part time jobs she was forced to hold with the company to make ends meet because of her low wage, would you still support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Brinker International, Inc., the owner of Chilis Restaurants which is planning to replace some employee with computers rather than pay a living wage, would you still support her?
If you knew that Sandra Fluke has investments in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, the same company Lily Ledbetter sued for equal pay for women, would you support her?
Labels: California, Sandra Fluke
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Dorothy Reik said that Sandra Fluke has investments in BlackRock Investment Management, and BlackRock owner Pete Peterson is pouring millions into his campaign to eviscerate, or even eliminate, both Social Security and Medicare.
Not quite. Peterson owns Blackstone, and BlackRock is a spinoff from Blackstone .
According to Wikipedia:
“BlackRock was founded in 1988… Initially, BlackRock was part of the The Blackstone Group L.P. and was called Blackstone Financial Management.”
So BlackRock could still be embarrassing to Fluke. And her BlackRock holdings aren’t her only connection with the firm. William Mutterperl, her future father-in-law, is another link. As the former Vice Chairman of PNC Financial Services Group, he served as a PNC representative on the Board of Directors of BlackRock.
Are we to assume the Limbaugh saga was not a dust up but a set up?
John Puma
I am really sorry that you chose to publish this hit piece by someone with a personal agenda.
Dorothy Reik endorsed Ben Allen early on because Fran Pavley did. And Dorothy owes her entire position in the Democratic Party to Fran, as Fran appointed her delegate to the CA Democratic Party convention.
That was why she supported SB 4, Fran's terrible fracking bill, down to the last minute last year even after the four Big Green groups took their names off it and the LA Times editorialized against it with an article called "A Fracking Bill Gone Bad." I led a statewide campaign against SB 4, because I knew it would derail the fracking moratorium bill and, if passed, would lead to an increase in fracking, which it has.
Dorothy may have even run afoul of her own club's by-laws in endorsing Ben. There was no candidates forum or questionnaire given to all the Democratic candidates before the primary election. She just decided that she wanted Ben and made sure the club endorsed him.
She runs her club the same way. There is a listserv that no one but her can post to. Every morning she decides what articles in "Truthout" people should read and what issues and candidates they should support or oppose. Her club has been delisted by the Progressive Democrats of America because she ran afoul of their rules forbidding endorsing candidates for local and state races.
The real story is not what investments are held in a trust that neither Sandra nor her husband has any control over but the fact that the vast majority of Ben Allen's donors are wealthy people representing big corporate interests such as oil and gas, timber, venture capital and education privatization who have given the maximum as well as Republican Bill Bloomfield whose independent expenditures for Ben's campaign have exceeded $1 million. You can be sure these people are going to expect something in return for their donations.
I am surprised that someone who supported Marianne Williamson's campaign whose main theme was the corrupting influence of money and politics would publish a hit piece like this against a true progressive who cut her teeth as an activist and whose campaign is relying almost exclusively on small donations.
Finally, why don't you ask Dorothy to tell you what stocks are in the mutual funds that Ben Allen is invested in? I wouldn't be surprised if they are some of the same companies. There are very few American corporations whose hands are completely clean.
"While her surrogates had been circulating attacks on Ben and his supporters by e-mail and button-holing confrontations at various events,..."
Sandra Fluke doesn't have "surrogates." Dorothy is confusing surrogates with a number of voters who have looked at the large donations coming into Allen's campaign from anti-environmental interests, Republicans and worse. Plus there's the Santa Monica Schools issue where Allen is on the BOE there and it appears he ignored some serious toxicity issues in favor of, again, Big $$ interests. Dorothy Reik's uncritical support of Allen is disturbing.
I received a mailer today from the President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, supporting Ben Allen along with the nasty school privatizer Marshall Tuck and urging voters to vote on the ballot measures completely opposite to how I intend to vote, i.e., supporting the big money interests.
I received another mailer today with Ben and Henry Waxman - the Waxman who said he would cut social security, loves AIPAC (and AIPAC loves him) and has not voted against war spending for decades.
Ben Allen is exactly the kind of corporate Dem this blog repeatedly rails against. I don't get why this article is here.
I've warned you and warned you about purity tests, but you won't listen. The next time I see you at a Democratic Party function, I will do my best to embarass you, because you are embarassing us. Cut the shit, & stop behaving like you're the liberal Joseph McCarthy. Guilt by association is a Republican tactic.
If you think I'm posting an idle threat, think again. I will embarass you because I will loudly talk about you in front of you, to anyone who will listen, & I will point at you repeatedly while I talk about what I've seen you do on this blog that I disagree with. Again, cut the shit.
Stentor, shouldn't that be "cut the shit", PLEASE???
vs cut the cheese any time you want in a free country?
just sayin, at least be polite when you threaten.
Amen.
Bil,
I have tried to be nice, but in pointing out his logic of determining purity as a Democrat, he has no right to be imposing benchmarks.
I'm done being polite, I will embarass him if I see him at a Democratic Party function. He won't even see me coming up until the point where I have the microphone in my hot little hands, & begin talking about the disunity in the Democratic Party. I will take off the gloves & go after the hippie punchers (DLC, Blue Dog, New Dems, all those corporatist motherfuckers) hammer & tong, because I am so sick to death of their shit, but I will also point right at Howie when I say that there are certain individuals (point, point, point!!) who are guilty of behaving like Republicans in their application of "You're not a Democrat because you voted for a Republican 20 years ago." or some such horseshit like that.
I tried to post a similar comment from my iPhone, but it never appeared, so we'll see if this one does. If not, I guess I have my answer, because he won't let any of my comments stand, he's deleted them before, now he just won't approve them.
DWT, if you're going to be a Democrat, that means you have to be a principled Democrat with those that disagree with you, not just the ones who kiss your ass. You & I might disagree, but I'm still a fucking Democrat, & I've always been a Democrat, my parents campaigned for George McGovern back in 1972, so is that good enoough bona fides for you?
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