Saturday, November 25, 2017

Actors hired to attend rally

From the Daily News:

At a rally outside City Hall, an activist calling for the city to move forward with a developer’s plan to turn a long-vacant landmarked school in the East Village into college dorms poured his heart out about how the group was just comprised of concerned community folks.

“We have jobs here. We don’t get paid for this, and literally we spent hours uncovering information,” Jose de Yarza said.

But while de Yarza doesn’t get paid for his advocacy, that doesn’t appear to be true for some of the 30 people standing quietly behind him, holding signs bashing Mayor de Blasio and local elected officials.

The Daily News obtained a casting email seeking people to “beef up attendance” for the rally, held by the newly formed group East Village Cares, in exchange for a rate of “$50 CASH / 2.5 hour booking.”

One person holding a sign at the event confirmed attending as a result of the casting call. Another declined to answer, saying it wouldn’t be right to discuss whether he’d been paid. Two others approached by The News denied being paid or getting the casting call email.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

More fake news !

Anonymous said...

Aux contraire; Now we have a task rabbit venue for retiree’s, out of work actors, stringers, extra’s, and all the soon to be further down trodden beleaguered subjugated masses faced with starvation wages. Trump’s tax cuts, reduced vet benefits, the great GOP grip to
enslave salaried workers who haven’t access to off shore tax havens is the trickle down incentive to any entrepreneur stepping in to create
a talent agency specifically geared to this new revenue stream. Preference to displaced delivery workers having lost work resulting from
Billy Boys assault of electric assisted bicycles, a must.

Anonymous said...

Fake news, fake politicians, fake crowds.

Anonymous said...

Things are never what they appear in this shitty city

Anonymous said...

Like they do at Pres. Trump rallies. Idiots

Anonymous said...

Are they SAG Union extras?

Anonymous said...

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2010/11/19/its-politics-trump-or-palin-cant-we-just-vote-them-off-the-island-already/

Gotham Government Relations.. same guys who created a website called shouldtrumprun.com back in the day.... hired a bunch of folks at a Trump rally at Jones Beach years ago as well

Anonymous said...

https://www.salon.com/2013/04/14/i_was_a_political_astroturfer/

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