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Rally reveals Proposition 22 inequities
SEAN CONNERY: A TRIBUTE
Actor made James Bond real Actor, who died Saturday, remembered for powerful acting By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR
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James Bond was a charming, romantic and dramatic hero, but let’s face it. There were times he was more shaken than stirred. You would be too if you were tied to a table and faced a laser beam charging toward you. “You expect me to talk?” agent 007 yelled. “No, Mr. Bond,” replied Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe). “I expect you to die!” But Bond talked his way out of that near-death experience and defeated the gold-obsessed villain in “Goldfinger” (1964). He also beat the bad guys in “Dr. No,” (the 1962 film that started the Bond franchise), “From Russia with Love (1963), “Thunderball” (the 1965 film that was complete with a giant wall map to stress the point SPECTRE was threatening the world), “You Only Live Twice” (1967), “Diamonds Are Forever” (the 1971 film shot in Las Vegas) and the “Thunderball” remake, “Never Say Never Again” (1983). Never say that as James Bond, Sean Connery didn’t always win. And he did it with class, wearing a tuxedo, drinking those vodka martinis (shaken, not stirred), driving his Aston Martin DB5 with the guns and other gadgets (ejector seats and
Sean Connery continued to make other characters memorable after his movies as 007, in everything from “The Untouchables” to “The Hunt for Red October.”
oil slicks!), saying one-liners and puns with a straight face, and ultimately proving himself irresistible to women, good or bad. As the character created by author Ian Fleming, Mr. Connery defeated terrorists in the sky, on the land and under the sea. He prevented the Cold War from becoming a deep freeze, and bad guys fighting him on a train couldn’t stay on track. For Baby Boomers and other Please see connery on A8
Daniel Russell, a driver for Uber and Lyft, spoke against Proposition 22 during a rally Sunday afternoon in De La Guerra Plaza. He says he works 60- to 70-hour weeks to get by.
By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Local labor unions and politicians joined a rally Sunday afternoon organized by the campaign against Proposition 22, the ballot measure that seeks to override Assembly Bill 5 and label app-based drivers as independent contractors. The campaign in favor of Proposition 22 has raised almost $200 million almost exclusively from app-based companies. Its top three contributors — Uber Technologies, Lyft and DoorDash — each spent at least $48 million. The campaign against the measure has raised almost $20 million from a wider array of contributors. Uber and Lyft driver Daniel Russell expressed his frustration with the companies. “I have to work 60 and 70 hour weeks to make ends meet. It used to not be so bad when I first started driving,” he said. “But the problem is these companies constantly change their contracts on us on a whim. They offer us these new contracts when we’re getting ready to sign in for a shift in the driver’s seat of the car, and you have to review 25 pages of legal mumbo jumbo that changes our rights and changes our compensation,” he said. He has driven over 20,000 rides between Uber and Lyft and goes through three sets of brakes and tires a year. The companies do a safety check on his car once a year. “These companies are not only a danger to public safety, but they also steal from the public. They save billions of dollars on payroll taxes by not claiming us
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Sean Connery is forever known as the first James Bond.
State Street patrons remember Sean Connery By ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
While Jeremy Goldberg, executive director of the Central Coast Labor Council, introduces speakers, crowd members hold up signs.
as employees,” he said. “When the pandemic hit, the taxpayer had to pick up the bill when we lost our jobs.” He worries about what other industries will follow if the measure passes. All the speakers seemed to worry about what other services will label workers as independent contractors. “What industry next will say if we spend $200 million, we can write our own special exclusion to labor laws too?” said Lucas Zucker, policy and
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communications director at Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy. “The only reason that people were confused is because these app companies spent $200 million spamming us with advertisements to convince us that red is blue, up is down and taking away rights from workers is good for workers,” he said. An August 2020 report by Ken Jacobs and Michael Reich of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC
Berkeley concluded that drivers’ compensation, if Proposition 22 passes, is approximately $5.64. The proposition doesn’t pay drivers for the time spent waiting for customers and underestimates driving expenses. “[The Yes On 22 campaign] has been disingenuous in terms of their advertising. Because they’ve been saying that it’ll help drivers, but in reality, it leaves them with no unemployment insurance, no Please see PROP 22 on A8
Pedestrians along State Street in downtown Santa Barbara gave their reactions Sunday evening to Sean Connery’s death. “It was just kind of sad because everyone loved him,” Rob Walmsley said. He liked him as James Bond, but he didn’t have a distinct favorite. Mr. Walmsley and his friend, Ray Tellefsen, were surprised to hear Sir Connery was 90. Kevin Johnson thought he’d be 75, not 90. “He has done a bunch of really great movies,” he said. He began listing off titles such as “The Rock,” “Never Say Never Again”
and “Finding Forrester.” He said the James Bond films with him are the best and said the movies are timeless. Visitors Jaclyn and Rosette were enthusiastic about Mr. Connery. Rosette had even watched Goldfinger earlier Sunday. They said he’s their favorite Bond, though argued about their runner-up. It seems he was the clear winner in their eyes. “Excellent actor. Excellent,” Jaclyn said. That seemed to be the general consensus Sunday: disappointment about his passing but admired the films left behind. email: ahanshaw@newspress.com
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