November 8, 2005

Union thugs attack in LA

By Lee Kaplan
Genevieve Peters is a former school teacher and teacher's union representative, now an educational consultant living in the Los Angeles area.  She frequently volunteers her time for causes she passionately believes in. Among those causes is support for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his Propositions 74, 75 and 76 currently before the California voters this Tuesday. She feels the teacher's unions and their leadership in California are lying to the membership and taking advantage of them by urging them to defeat the governor's plans to rehabilitate California after the Gray Davis years. But when she went to a rally against the initiatives to counter protest and to urge her fellow teachers and service workers to vote 'yes,' she was physically attacked by the crowd. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villagrosa and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez both spoke against the initiatives that day at the rally in Los Angeles' Pershing Square, and, even though the attacks on Genevieve occurred right in...(Read Full Article)