{"article":{"id":2267,"heading":"Gore Campain Staffer Jumps Ship, Joins Protest","author":"Alex Chrisman-Unlawful Assembly","created":"2000-08-18 19:25:19","modified":"2000-08-23 01:02:31","last_modified":"Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:02:31","article":"

Something must have went off in the mind of a Gore staffer this Monday, something that caused him to take a look at the real record of Al Gore.

\"I was so brainwashed by the Gore lie that I never thought to look past the smoke and mirrors,\" says the ex-staffer who is still afraid to give up his name.

He says that his intail problem with Gore began with the way he was ordered to stick to \"fact sheets\" given to him. He was never allowed to think outside of the sheets.

\"They really do turn you into a Gore-bot,\" he says. Soon after these thoughts went through his mind, he went to one of the protests, the Uwa march and discovered the truth about Al Gore.

Since that time, he has been to just about every march, and his outlook on the movement is now positve. He's seen an officer of the LAPD kick an innocent in the face with his boot, and he has seen the \"pigs\" turn Los Angeles into a police state overnight.

Before working for Gore, he was a protest leader at high school, so he says he knows \"both sides of the fence.\" Now that he knows the truth about Gore, he is going to try to work for the Nader camp.<\/p>\n","contact":"alex_chrisman@yahoo.com","link":"www.angelfire.com\/zine\/ua","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A worker with the Gore-Liberman campain quits and joins the street protesters","numcomment":12,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/2267.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":2304,"heading":"We could really use some more information...","article":"Author:\r\n\r\nCan you post some follow up info ? \r\n\r\nWhat is this guy's name?\r\n\r\nWhat was he doing for Gore exactly ? \r\n\r\nDo you have contact info ?\r\n\r\nCan you get him to tell his version of the story in the comments here ? \r\n\r\nThis story needs a lot more evidence before I deem it credible.","author":"gemme facts jack","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 21:04:46","modified":"2000-08-18 21:18:47","fileurl":""},{"id":2318,"heading":"info reqested","article":"For whatever reason, he would not give his name, but I have seen him at the Gore campain office on the 41st floor of ARCO tower. He was working phones and says that he \"took every call in the state (CA) for gore.\" He said this inculded senators and reps, one of which was Maxine Waters.","author":"Alex Chrisman","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 21:41:42","modified":"2000-08-18 21:56:43","fileurl":""},{"id":2322,"heading":"More of us out there","article":"I too used to be in politics. I haven't officially worked for the Gore camp this election cycle, but I have done things in the past. I didn't come to LA to work for the Convention for the same reasons cited by this ex worker. I am not sure where I lie on the side of peaceful demonstration or active participation inside the hall, but I do know that not enough voices are being heard. There are not enough people actively engaged in the process. I find it difficult to believe that those in the Hall would take the protesters seriously. I do not believe that the protesters are any less serious, ardent and admant about their causes as are those in the CBC or DLC or other groups within the Democratic party. There needs to be a unifying force that brings all these factions together to create --to be honest, a more perfect union. Now who could that be? Paul Wellstone? Ralph Nader? Tom Hayden? Al Gore? Someone inside politics at all? We need more people who are inside the Hall to be connecting with and understanding those who are outside the Hall in order for all of us to move forward into real solutions and not just talk, protest, or disobiedience.\r\n\r\nPEACE\r\n\r\nPS - LAPD -- They treat you like a King!!","author":"ExGopherboy","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 21:51:18","modified":"2000-08-18 22:05:34","fileurl":""},{"id":2323,"heading":"Either way...","article":"Real story or not, like Duke Ellington said, \"If it sounds good, it IS good!!\"","author":"Noel","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-18 21:52:59","modified":"2000-08-18 22:05:34","fileurl":""},{"id":2383,"heading":"gore staffer jumps ship","article":"is this guy a cop?","author":"russell bates","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-19 02:20:36","modified":"2000-08-19 02:40:43","fileurl":""},{"id":2385,"heading":"gore staffer jumps ship","article":"is this guy a cop? working as a volunteer in a group of folks dedicated to holding the police accountable for their actions,defectors can sometimes be less or more than they claim to be. not everyone is who they claimto be.","author":"russell bates","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-19 02:26:33","modified":"2000-08-19 02:40:43","fileurl":""},{"id":2436,"heading":"gore, bush, gore, bush, gore, bush","article":"gore or bush. they really are two sides of the same coin--to vote for one is to vote for the other. the reason is that both of these guys make a living on telling lies, and setting aside doing what is really right for people in the name of preserving their own lavish lifestyles or employing machiavellian tactics to distract people from the real issues at hand by turning other affairs into soap operas.\r\n\r\naraya","author":"araya","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-19 07:42:05","modified":"2000-08-19 07:55:00","fileurl":""},{"id":2498,"heading":"maybe you're just causing dissention","article":"Russell, \r\nAre you affiliated with copwatch? Or did you just place that link under your message to make your divisive, paranoid utterings seem more credible?\r\n","author":"marianne sanchez","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-19 13:49:33","modified":"2000-08-19 14:05:18","fileurl":""},{"id":2546,"heading":"Tide is turning","article":"YEAH! The message is getting out there. After all the police violence we took in LA, it's nice to see that we're growing and that there are people in politics who are not just sheep","author":"Kirby","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-19 15:49:07","modified":"2000-08-19 16:02:05","fileurl":""},{"id":2787,"heading":"gore is like a bowl of cereal","article":"Sometimes you eat al gore in the morning, and then you fart in the afternoon.","author":"lawrence andrews","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-20 03:00:13","modified":"2000-08-20 03:13:11","fileurl":""},{"id":2952,"heading":"gore staffer jumps ship","article":"I'm a supporter of copwatch but your comment is absurd. Of course, you can't prove your accusation either, can you? Why don't you focus on the real cops not the citizens opposing those cops. Are you a cop? ","author":"chris stegman","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-20 22:14:12","modified":"2000-08-20 22:36:13","fileurl":""},{"id":3164,"heading":"Gore aid jumps ship?","article":"He certainly seems easily enfluenced. Gore's team must have programed him very well?","author":"Jan Meredith","parent_id":2267,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-23 01:02:31","modified":"2000-08-23 01:27:56","fileurl":""}]}