RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Facebook pits 'Friends' and 'Family' against each other during Campaign 2016

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Facebook pits 'Friends' and 'Family' against each other during Campaign 2016

By Randy Economy
I really enjoy Facebook, but not so much recently.

Love sharing private and special moments with my FB Friends and Family. Great way to keep in touch.

Love the dog photos and silly videos that capture mankind in the most precarious positions. Love checking in with my peeps in the world of media to catch their latest reports, radio talk show, print articles and blog posts.

I have 5,000 FB Friends, I am tempted to do some deep housecleaning with some of you folks...

I actually know probably 95 PERCENT of you on my Facebook journey...we have had an incredible "cyber relationship," that has turned into some really solid real life bonds.

HOWEVER....

For the life of me, I don't understand the "hate wars" that are going on between my friends and family who are on the opposite side in the campaign between Clinton and Trump. To complicate matters, NOW the Greens and Libertarians have started a new phase of "Campaign Cyber War 2016."

Don't even get me started on the Twitter rants. Do you know that people are actually determining WHO they are voting for in November just on the Tweets they read? Seriously? We are doomed as a Free Democracy.

As an investigative journalist, I have dedicated most of my adult life exposing political corruption.

I understand a heated political debate.

I have also had my share of run-ins with the folks inside law enforcement agencies (yep THOSE people) who have not always been happy with me prying into their affairs. Then their are the mega-powerful political bosses who are in the game the make millions and don't want anyone playing on their turf.

This year, I have noticed that folks are just plain rude, obnoxious, and who are not playing with a full 52-card deck.

I have been called a Nazi, a Racist, Idiot, Stupid Schmuck, Homophobic (seriously, HELLO?) and my favorite, a "traitor" since I decided to register as a REPUBLICAN for God sake just four months ago.

Like my life long friend Diana Cabori likes to tell me..."this SHIT has got to stop," and it does need to stop.

So, the next time you want to pick a fight with me on Facebook, just because I attended the Republican Party Convention in Cleveland as an official California Delegation for Mr. Trump, take a minute and breath, exhale and repeat.

Clean air is good for one's soul.
Did I say clean air?
OMG. I think I just opened up another political can of spam.
Get a grip America.
Election day is till 100 days ago.

---Randy Economy

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1 comment:

Jeannette1005 said...: AMEN BROTHER... I am so over all of it. I know I am just as guilty in giving my three cents, but I try not to insult anyone, or call them names, or claim they are too stupid to know what's good for them. This is what makes America great..the ability to converse and give our opinions...but it's just getting down right nasty.; Sunday, July 31, 2016 10:02:00 PM

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Meet Randy Economy

You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”