Regarding the second video here is one of my favorite parts of Witt's deposition before the Lobby Commission:
Q: Do you know if that video, We Gather, is sold?
Witt: It is not.
Q: It is not sold?
Witt: Well, I'm sorry. I think that the ministry makes it available. To cover handling and reproduction costs, if that is the definition of "sold", yes.
Yes Reverend, that is the definition of "sold." Somehow I think you knew the definition of "sold" long before the deposition.
Yes, bringing them along I'm sure was a "helpful thing" to support the myth that theirs is a farmworker driven movement, not a self-appointed advocate driven movement.
The truth, which Witt admitted during his deposition, is far removed. Witt admitted that though any farmworker who wants to be on RMM's planning committee could be on it, on average only two or three actually serve on the committee. Witt also admitted that the few farmworkers that were bussed into Albany for their annual lobby day were paid $40 at the end of the lobbying event for their participation.
Oh, as a side point, in the final video, in talking about the legislative visits, Fred Wibiralske, a longtime RMM board member says: "bringing the farmworkers along with us was a tremendously helpful thing." Witt and his crew like to perpetrate the myth that this is a grassroots farmworker movement and the self-appointed advocates play a helpful role and are there because Witt claims (over and over and over again) a farmworker once asked him to "stand with them."
Regarding the second video here is one of my favorite parts of Witt's deposition before the Lobby Commission:
Q: Do you know if that video, We Gather, is sold?
Witt: It is not.
Q: It is not sold?
Witt: Well, I'm sorry. I think that the ministry makes it available. To cover handling and reproduction costs, if that is the definition of "sold", yes.
Yes Reverend, that is the definition of "sold." Somehow I think you knew the definition of "sold" long before the deposition.
ChrisPawelski 2 years ago
Yes, bringing them along I'm sure was a "helpful thing" to support the myth that theirs is a farmworker driven movement, not a self-appointed advocate driven movement.
ChrisPawelski 2 years ago
The truth, which Witt admitted during his deposition, is far removed. Witt admitted that though any farmworker who wants to be on RMM's planning committee could be on it, on average only two or three actually serve on the committee. Witt also admitted that the few farmworkers that were bussed into Albany for their annual lobby day were paid $40 at the end of the lobbying event for their participation.
ChrisPawelski 2 years ago
Oh, as a side point, in the final video, in talking about the legislative visits, Fred Wibiralske, a longtime RMM board member says: "bringing the farmworkers along with us was a tremendously helpful thing." Witt and his crew like to perpetrate the myth that this is a grassroots farmworker movement and the self-appointed advocates play a helpful role and are there because Witt claims (over and over and over again) a farmworker once asked him to "stand with them."
ChrisPawelski 2 years ago
Check out my comments under my name for details regarding this video.
ChrisPawelski 2 years ago