• Animals

    California Proposition 8 Aftermath: Mormon El Coyote Restaurant Manager Quits

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    Hundreds of protesters converged on El Coyote on Beverly Boulevard on Wednesday night, November 12, 2008. Photo courtesy of LA Times

    Remember the Flap.

    Well, Marjorie Christiffersen has resigned her positon as a manager of the restaurant and from the restaurant’s board of directors (via M/M).

    As of Saturday evening, Marjorie Christoffersen was no longer employed at El Coyote, Frontiers magazine reported Monday on its website. Bill Schoeppner, a fellow manager at El Coyote, told Frontiers that Christoffersen tendered her resignation that night. Christoffersen, described on the El Coyote website as the “matriarch” of the 77-year-old restaurant, will also be resigning from the restaurant’s board of directors.

    The trouble began last month when local bloggers uncovered Christoffersen’s donation. Christoffersen is a Mormon. A November 12 press conference intended to defuse the anger of the restaurant’s gay clientele backfired when Christoffersen refused to apologize for the donation and said she would not financially support efforts to repeal Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California. It’s been reported that gay and lesbian business at the Mexican eatery has dropped precipitously since then.

    “Everybody is kind of used to her walking around the restaurant with a water pitcher going from table to table to table,” Schoeppner told Frontiers about Christofferson. “I guess that part is no longer going to exist.”

    Hope the gay marriage bullies are happy. They drove away a woman who gave a pawltry $100 to the Yes on 8 campaign and rather than renounce her true feelings on gay marriage quit her association with a restaurant that has been in her family for generations.

    Flap has speculated that the family will sell the restaurant that is located just south of the West Hollywood (homosexual area) of Los Angeles. and which employees a majority of staff that are homosexual.

    Maybe they can find a gay owner who will take it off the family’s bigoted hands?

    Previous:

    El Coyote Mexican Cafe Bullied Into $500 Donation to Homosexual Advocacy Group – JIZYA


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  • Michael Steele

    Michael Steele – Wake Up People!

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    Former Republican Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele and candidate for Chairman, Repubican Natonal Committee

    David Brody over at CBN News has some good video and interview of Michael Steele.

    Michael Steele, one of the leading contenders for Republican National Committee Chairman tells The Brody File that his conservative critics need to “wake up” and get over the fact that he once played a role in the centrist Republican Leadership Council.

    The Brody File interviewed Steele one on one this morning. Watch his animated answer above and read a partial transcript below. To get his full comments and the emotion behind the words, you really need to watch the clip.

    Flpa likes Steele and thinks he has the RIGHT STUFF to lead the GOP forward. the other candidates although good Republicans do not possess the experience in public office and in running a party like Steele.

    Steele’s conservative cred is impeccable, despite what some others may be saying to discredit him.

    Related David Brody interview pieces of Michael Steele:


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  • Caroline Kennedy,  Joe Lieberman

    Caroline Kennedy for U.S. Senate – What Have You Done for Us Lately, Baby?

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    Eric Holder walks with Caroline Kennedy on Capitol Hill in Washington. Holder is President-elect Barack Obama’s Attorney General Designee, June 25, 2008

    The LEFT says Thanks But No thanks to Caroline Kennedy replacing Hillary Clinton as U.S. Senator from New York.

    It’s a truly terrible idea.

    Her leadership could have been really helpful when the rest of us were trying to keep the progressive lights on and getting the stuffing beaten out of us by a very well-financed right wing for the past eight years.  But when things were tough, she was nowhere to be found.

    Thanks Jane. The last time you were involved with Democrat Ned Lamont, Joe Lieberman won.

    Guess Caroline can start measuring the drapes.


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  • Jerry Brown,  Meg Whitman,  Steve Poizner

    Jerry Brown to Run for California Governor in 2010 But Worried About Dianne Feinstein?

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    Former California Governors Jerry Brown, George Deukmejian, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis

    Former Democrat Mayor of San Francisco and Assembly Speaker Willie Brown seems to think Jerry Brown is a go as a REPRISE California Governor – despite Senator Dianne Feinstein’s intentions.

    Then, in walks Jerry Brown and his wife and campaign manager, Anne Gust, and Joe Trippi – Howard Dean’s guru of online campaigning. A few minutes later Peter Coyote walks in.

    Jerry was singularly focused on Dianne Feinstein. Every other line was an inquiry about my assessment or Rose’s assessment or Peter’s assessment or anyone else’s assessment about Dianne’s candidacy for governor.

    He didn’t seem at all worried about Gavin Newsom.

    Finally I asked Jerry, “Are you really deadly serious about running for governor?”

    “I am, I am,” he said.

    So I told him: “Then you should announce. Make it serious.

    “Dianne is not going to run in a crowd of people,” I said. “Newsom is already in and John Garamendi is in. If you add your name to that list, Dianne will announce her chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee and stay in Washington.”

    And, Brown’s former chief of staff and recalled California Governor (replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger) Gray Davis is fundraising for Jerry.

    Davis sent a note last week inviting donors to a reception he is hosting at his home for Brown this Tuesday.

    “Jerry has done a great job as California’s attorney general,” Davis wrote to invitees. “Please join us in supporting his re-election campaign.”

    Donors are asked to give from $2,000 to the legal maximum of $12,000.

    Officially, the money raised must go toward Brown’s reelection campaign for attorney general.

    But Brown, who served two terms as governor before term limits were in place, is making noise about running for the state’s top office again. And any funds he raises for his reelection campaign can easily be transferred to a run for governor. Brown has already stripped his 2010 campaign account title of any reference to attorney general. It’s simply “Jerry Brown 2010.”

    Flap knows that Jerry Brown is a GO unless his health fails. But, will a retread Brown be able to beat either Steve Poizner or Meg Whitman?

    Stay tuned……


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  • Barbara Streisand,  George W. Bush

    Video: The Bush – Streisand Smooch

    And, remember Barbara Streisand’s class (LESS) remark:

    Barbra Streisand got an awkward kiss on the cheek from the president, and yes, she gave him a smooch back. Streisand, a vocal critic of President George W. Bush, was a guest Sunday at the White House just before one of Washington’s few A-list events: the Kennedy Center Honors.

    “Art transcends politics this weekend,” the longtime Democrat said beforehand. Still, she said it would have been “lovely” if she could have received the award while President-elect Barack Obama was in office.

    It was more like a peck, anyway.


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  • Los Angeles Times,  Media

    Tribune Company – Parent of Los Angeles Times – BUSTO

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    The Tribune Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today.

    The company that owns the Los Angeles Times, KTLA Channel 5 and the Chicago Tribune filed for bankruptcy protection today, seeking relief from $12 billion in debt that largely stems from last year’s leveraged buyout of the media firm.

    Tribune Co. directors approved the action to seek Chapter 11 protection in a meeting today, saying they want to restructure payments to banks and other creditors, following real estate magnate Sam Zell’s purchase of the company last year.

    Reportedly Zell will sell the Chicago Cubs to reorganize the company.

    Flap would think baseball is more viable business-wise than the Tribune newspapers – hell, sell them instead.

    When does Tribune apply for their government bailout?


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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger,  California Republican Party,  GOP

    Shocker: California GOP Is In Trouble

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    You think?

    With their registrations sinking and their political clout withering, California Republicans have come out of the November election in danger of slipping into political irrelevance across much of the state.

    “There’s been a broad repudiation of traditional conservative Republicans in California,” said Tony Quinn, a former GOP analyst and co-editor of the California Target Book, which focuses on political contests in the state. “There are almost no areas in the state that can be considered safely Republican anymore.”

    But, Quinn does NOT mention Proposition 11 that barely passed and the changes the heavily Democrat gerrymandered districts. But, Flap digresses.

    The GOP brand has been hurt by President Bush and the corrupt GOP establishment in Congress, no doubt.

    But, there are opportunities and although down and out now, the upside is good for the GOP – but maybe not majority but relevant.

    Here are the stats:

    October 2004

    • Total registered voters: 16.5 million
    • Registered Democrats: 7.1 million (43 percent)
    • Registered Republicans: 5.7 million (34.7 percent)
    • Registration gap: Democrats ahead by 1.4 million

    October 2008

    • Total registered voters: 17.3 million
    • Registered Democrats: 7.7 million (44 percent)
    • Registered Republicans: 5.4 million (31.3 percent)
    • Registration gap: Democrats ahead by 2.3 million

    Counties that changed to majority Democrats since 2004

    • Alpine
    • San Bernardino
    • San Joaquin
    • Stanislaus
    • Ventura

    Counties nearing majority Democrats since 2004

    • Del Norte (8 voters)
    • San Diego (380 voters)
    • Trinity (40 voters)

    Source: California secretary of state

    The rebuilding will begin by the end of the decade with new legislative districts and term limits throwing out the incumbent Democrats.

    Flap doubts California voters will change the 2/3’rds vote requirement for passing the state budget or to raise taxes. But, do the Democrats really want to push the issue?

    Voters now blame Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for the economic mess which he was first elected to fix when he was elected six years ago. If the Democrats in the legislature want accountablility Flap is positive the GOP will be glad to oblige.

    Watch for new registration initiatives as well for the California GOP beginning by next summer.

    Stay tuned…..


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  • Barack Obama,  Barbara Streisand,  George W. Bush

    Barf Alert: Streisand and Bush Share Smooch – Streisand Remains Classless

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    Kennedy Center 2008 Honorees, from left, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Twyla Tharp, Morgan Freeman, Barbara Streisand, and George Jones pose for a group photo after the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008 at the State Department in Washington.

    Yeah, it was an awkward smooch and the President was the class act even shaking her fraking hand after the vitriol she has dished out to him. But as per Babs:

    Barbra Streisand got an awkward kiss on the cheek from the president, and yes, she gave him a smooch back. Streisand, a vocal critic of President George W. Bush, was a guest Sunday at the White House just before one of Washington’s few A-list events: the Kennedy Center Honors.

    “Art transcends politics this weekend,” the longtime Democrat said beforehand. Still, she said it would have been “lovely” if she could have received the award while President-elect Barack Obama was in office.

    Naturally……


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