Several hundred people showed up for an “paycheck protection” rally yesterday behind the Slidebar in Fullerton’s Transportation Center. The small but enthusiastic crowd got to hear from several state and local political leaders including Fullerton’s pension spiking spoiler Shawn Nelson, pension crisis watchdog OC Supervisor John Moorlach, Assemblyman Chris Norby, Assemblyman Chuck Devore, gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and a very energetic Villa Park Councilwoman Deborah Pauly.
The event was sponsored by the Tea Partiers, but the focus was to those in attendance to go out and gather signatures for the paycheck protection initiative that would protect union employees from the union automatically taking dues from the paychecks of their members and use the money to fund political campaigns that might be distasteful the members..
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Tony, There was another rally at the same time in Laguna Hills. It had over 400 people there. The one in Fullerton seemed more like about 150 or so max and wasn’t nearly as energetic or fun but, they both were pushing the same thing so its all good.
Ahh … the teabaggers are such romantics. They must have all stayed home to exchange candy, flowers and taint with their special someone. Or someone leaked that this event was just an excuse by local politicians to campaign for themselves and not a “revolt” of any kind.
Baxter is correct about the purpose of the events. That was my impression.
Baxter..if you can’t talk better than that, calling people filthy names, perhaps you should keep your opinions to yourself.
Oh boy, another group of radical fundie Christians who hate “big government,” but have no problem with banning gay marriage or replacing our government with a Christian theocracy. I think they should move to some other country, like Iran, and see how well that is working.
I fear these brownshirts more than I fear the Feds, and I’m a left libertarian.