Jon Green and his Working Families party are planning the "hatred-palooza 2009" tour of AIG FPG execs houses on Saturday AM. They are soliciting nasty grams to send to AIG employees. Seems to me opinion is mixed.
Hey - reasonable people can argue whether these guys should keep or give up this money, but no one deserves to have the mob with pitchforks terrorize their children and neighbors.
I sent the following:
"I think they are trying to intimidate Democrats into being more in tune with the Working Families' left-leaning policies," Schofield said - a Democrat who is arguably in office by a razor thin margin provided by Working Families Party endorsement in her state congressional race, and who is about to lose that endorsement in a rematch with her Republican opponent.
"You have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, it's just about the issues." Jon Green - chief instigator, motivator and leader of the Connecticut WFP retorts.
Right on - that's what I say.
I dig 3rd party candidates. I voted for John Anderson in 1980, despite the vitriol from my colleagues at the CCAG. You would have thought I personally elected Ronald Reagan. I was a Weicker staff member in Greenwich in the early eighties and supported his Connecticut Party achievements which brought permanent and fundamental change to how we fund our state government through the income tax. I voted for Ralph Nader, much to the glee of my husband, a Bush supporter.
But Jon Green and his party lose my support when he goes after the innocents in a crass bid-for-attention tour of Fairfield on Saturday morning one might call the "hatred-palooza tour 2009." Jon is taking bus-loads of the furious on a tour of homes of AIGFPG execs and plans to let them know in no certain terms that they are scum. There will be chanting, screaming, sign waving for sure. There will likely be threats, shoving and lots of righteous profanity, all endured by the innocent and designed to threaten, intimidate, and make the 6 pm news.
Green has done a masterful job of bringing fusion politics to Connecticut and keeping the Dems' feet to the fire. He even sounded reasonable when he seemed to suggest that the AIG bonuses might help us balance our budget in CT ( "Not so fast Barack" 3/17 blog), and I agree that contrition is in order by the folks that made this money. Reasonable people can argue that the money be returned, even after the case.
However, firing up the faithful, handing them pitch-forks and sending them to indiscriminately harass families, children, neighbors is a tactic better left the the right-to-life nut cases who exploited this scorched earth policy with doctors who performed legal abortions. It's fear-mongering, hate engendering, and caters to the most base human emotions. It's disingenuous to think this does not play on a big dose of envy, class-warfare and ignorance, and it smacks of the worst of cynical opportunism.
It destroys his credibility and looses support for him and his more long term cause
Lisa
COMMENT:
Dear Lisa,
If AIG Fat Cats Were Not Outed The Tax Dollars Would Not Have Been Returned.
Jackpot Jimmy Haas Knew That His Multi Million Dollar Retention Contract Was Not Worth The Paper It Was Written On If His Neighbors Tax Dollars Were Not Used To Fund It.
Jackpot Jimmy Knew That If AIG Went Into Bankruptcy That The Judge Would Void His Worthless Retention Contract, So He And Other AIG Executives Stole Their Neighbors Hard Earned Tax Dollars.
If Jackpot Jimmy Haas Was Was Suspected Of Raping His Neighbors There Would Ne Public Outrage And Disgust.
Well Jackpot Jimmy Haas' Greedy And Cold Heart Did Allow Him To Financially Rape His Neighbors.
Greedy Jackpot Jimmy Haas Spoke To Both The New York Post And The New York Times He Never Once Said, "I Am So Very Deeply Sorry For What I And The Others At AIG Have Done"
If Greedy Jackpot Jimmy Wanted To He Could Make One Phone Call And Be On Any National Television Network Of His Choosing And Say,"I Don't Know What I Was Thinking. This Country Has Been So Very Good To My Family. I Am Sincerely Sorry For What I And My Palls At AIG Did To The American Taxpayers. Can You Ever Forgive Me.
But Jackpot Jimmy Haas Wont Do This Because He Isn't Sorry For Taking His Neighbors Hard Earned Tax Dollars. At Best Greedy Jackpot Jimmy Haas Is Only Sorry That He Got Caught.
If The Working Families Want To Shine The Spotlight On A Bunch Of Fat Cat Cockroaches, Then Greenwich Roundup Says Let Them Shine The Light So Everyone Can See These Predatory Insects Scurry For The Dark
As You Men And Women Fight Overseas To Protect Our American Way Of Life, In No Way Is Greenwich Roundup Going To Criticize Them For Exercise Their Rights To Assemble And Speak Out Against The Greed That Is Destroying Our Great Country.
It Is Not Even Clear If Jackpot Jimmy Haas Rescind Both Taxpayer Funded Multi Million Bonus Payments?
Not May People Are Aware That There Are Two Sets Of Bonus Payments
This Is The First Bonus And Covers December 01, 2007 To November 30, 2008 That Was To Be Paid No Later Than March 15th of 2009.
Most People Don't Realize That The Clock Is Already Ticking On A Second Round Of Bonus Payments.
The Second Bonus Payments Cover December 01, 2008 To November 30, 2009 That Was To Be Paid No Later Than March 15th of 2010.
Lisa, In Your Letter You Say.....
"Hey - reasonable people can argue whether these guys should keep or give up this money."
I Don't Know Of Any Reasonable Person That Would Argue That Jackpot Jimmy Should Keep His Nieghbors Tax Dollars.
In Fact The Greedy Jackpot Jimmys Of This World Considered Working Families That Lost heir Homes To Forclosure A Bunch Of Losers.
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Showing Up At A Greedy CEO's House Isn't All That Bad
Protesters from the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America picket William Frey's home in Greenwich Sunday. Frey is CEO of Greenwich Financial Services LLC
If you know anything about Greenwich Roundup, then you know he is a very big fans of getting up in people's faces in a self-righteous matter
So Today's top Greenwich Time news story is natuarly this group that wore t-shirts that said, "Stop Loan Sharks," outside the home of William Frey, CEO of Greenwich Financial services .......
TOP STORY:
Group wants to stop loan modifications were affecting thousands of people who are losing their homes in foreclosure
QUOTES:
PROTESTORS: "Fix our loans, save our homes. Shame on you, CEO"
GPD LT. JAMES HEAVEY: "It was organized and orderly. They left without incident."
THE STORY:
Protesters rally outside of CEO's home
Hundreds of protesters rallied on Glenville Road outside the home of a financial company CEO to denounce predatory mortgage lending practices.
Organizers with the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, a nonprofit homeowner advocacy group, gathered outside the home of William Frey, CEO of Greenwich Financial Services, LLC. The move was part of the nonprofit's national accountability campaign to get company executives, who they believe contributed to the sub-prime mortgage crisis, to support refinancing loans to keep people in their homes, according to Liz Floyd, one of the organizers and a counselor with NACA.
The Greenwich Time Also Reported That Repeated calls to Frey were not answered as he hid in his house Sunday
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Greenwich Resident Richard Blumenthal
Sent Jackpot Jimmy A Subpoena Today
Connecticut AG Subpoenas AIGers For Testimony On Bonuses
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By Zachary Roth
This could be good.
Not content with letting New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo hog the spotlight, his Connecticut counterpart, Richard Blumenthal, has subpoenaed several AIG employees, incluing CEO Ed Liddy, to testify about those bonuses, totaling $165 million, at a legislative hearing March 26th.
Said Blumenthal in a statement:
"Now living off supersized taxpayer-paid bonuses, these AIG employees have a moral and legal obligation to appear at this legislative hearing and disclose details about corporate compensation to employees," said Blumenthal in a written statement.
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