Fire survivor roasts lying Republican Senator in CA

State Senator Hollingsworth lied to a reporter and said he never voted against bills to help survivors of the Cedars wildfire, the worst in CA history. Guess what? A fire survivor has blasted this scathing letter out to editors all over Southern California exposing how Hollingsworth betrayed fire victims - after pocketing huge contributions from the insurance industry!
Now fire victims are getting eviction notices from the County, just in time for the 3rd anniversary of the fire.

Hollingsworth, a Republican, is running against Mark Hanson. Hanson lost his home in the Cedar fire and founded a charity that raised money to help fire victims rebuild. He also led workshops and got donations of cars and computers to help fire victims.

Here's a link to fire survivor Kathy Huneke's smackdown letter of Hollingsworth:
http://www.kumeyaay.com/news/news_detail.html?id=4170

To find out more about Mark Hanson or donate to his campaign, visit www.hanson4senate.com

Please help keep this kicked so others can see this!

This is the type of stuff we need to make sure gets around.

Hollingsworthless:

- claims on his campaign site to be an "avid conservationist" but has a 0% rating from League of Conservation Voters

- has a lifetime zero rating from Sierra Club on environmental issues

- votes against working families' interests 96% of the time

- lobbied to abolish Endangered Species Act

- When told he couldn't import a pair of kangaroo hide boots, he introduced a bill to legalize importation of products made from endangered critters ($chwarzenegger signed the bill, amended to just allow importing threatened species -- like the crocodile boots Ahnold likes to wear)

Hollingsworth got a ticket for off-roading, and told the cop he'd turn the state park into a hunting grounds. Then introduced legislation to try and do just that.

He also intro'd the Internet hunting bill, that would've let people log on, get a bead on Bambi in the gunsights, then pay someone else to gun him down.

Why not just play a goddam video game?

Some people just amaze me.

kicking

For anyone who is interested, incidentally, there's a fundraiser for Mark Hanson in Hollywood on Wednesday night. PM me for details.

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DU. It's where you come to learn what you need to do.

Reprinted in full with permission from an edidtor at the East County Californian

October 11-17, 2006



FIRE VICTIM CALLS HOLLINGSWORTH A LIAR



By Joseph Pena

The East County Californian



Kathleen Huneke had no idea what was happening at home.

Huneke, a Lakeside resident, was in Las Vegas selling her father’s property when the Cedar fire destroyed her house in 2003.

Her husband called to tell her that they had lost everything.

“I wanted to race back, go home, but he told me, ‘You have no home,’ and I just about died,” Huneke said. “That’s when it hit me. We didn’t have a home. And we still don’t.”

Huneke is one of many East County residents who have yet to rebuild their homes after the fires swept through San Diego County.

She’s run the gamut of emotions since her 4,000 square-foot home on five and one-quarter acres of property in Lakeside burned – but lately, she is angry. And her anger is directed at Dennis Hollingsworth, state senator for the 36th District, which represents a large number of East County residents.

Huneke said Hollingsworth lied in a story published in The San Diego Union-Tribune last week. Mark Hanson, a challenger to incumbent Hollingsworth, said the state senator sided with insurance companies, not victims, after the fires.

In the article, Hollingsworth denied the accusations.

But the insurance industry is Hollingsworth’s top campaign contributor, champing the Republican senator for $29,300 so far.

And Hollingsworth voted no on Senate Bill 2, designed to help survivors of catastrophes recover by easing documentation requirements and expanding coverage so reconstruction can be accelerated.

The bill would have allowed alternative living expenses (ALE) for up to 24 months after the loss of a home. Typically, insurance companies offer 12-18 months of ALE.

Very few of the people who lost homes in the fires completed their reconstruction in one year and more than 50 percent still haven’t completed rebuilding.

The extended ALE would have eased the burden of both the victims and government agencies and contractors who were overwhelmed with demands to rebuild, Huneke said.

The bill also would have required insurance companies to pay 85 percent of policy limits for personal property losses without requiring an inventory from the homeowner, in the state of emergencies and when total loss is declared.

Huneke, who tried to inventory all of her belongings, still hasn’t finished a list of the things she owned.

The process of creating an inventory of her things has been devastating, at times too much for her to handle.

She reviewed home videos to try and document the family’s posessions, but it brough back terrible memories.

“It’s just horrible, you can’t imagine how horrible it is,” she said.

Hanson maintained his position that Hollingsworth sided with insurance companies, not victims.

“It’s not debatable,” Hanson said. “It’s right there in black and white, in the voting records and in The San Diego Union story. It’s not something we should be at all confused about.”

Over the merely filthy rich.

So do the oil and chemical companies, and the NRA.

and sent my absentee ballot out in the mail

Now help us win -- please tell at least 5 or 10 friends, neighbors, colleagues
about the differences in these candidates who wouldn't otherwise have a clue.

If we all do that, we can take back our district from Dennis Hollingsworthless.

just nauseating. :puke:

The growth around this area is FINALLY bringing some diversity, and with that maybe a DEM district.

We really need some precinct walkers/callers in your area.

State Farm is the bane of homeowners in the Gulf States.

State Farm was one of the worst here in its treatment of homeowners, unfortunately.

Details here: This is worth the price of admission!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2904207