WGAW Candidate & Support Statements…

COMMENTS (6)

• Elias scares the hell out of me.

  Comment by working writer — Sunday August 23, 2009 @ 7:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• They ALL scare me. I can’t see what Elias thinks he’s offering us, but Wells and his crew do not come across as anything more than opportunists, taking advantage of this vacuum to seize control and keep the WGA running in a manner that keeps the studios and the top earners happy.

  Comment by Befuddled — Sunday August 23, 2009 @ 10:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Does Wells ever address the fact that as Executive Producer of “West Wing” (and while President of the WGA) he asked the writing staff to take a pay cut in the contacts they had signed?

  (If I have the story wrong please let me know, but that’s how it’s been portrayed: The then-current WGA president moving against writers in support of producers.)

  Comment by George Glass — Monday August 24, 2009 @ 1:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• Jeez, anybody other than middle-aged white males…

  Comment by DH — Monday August 24, 2009 @ 1:38am PDT  Reply to this post

• Wells is a Producer and has more to gain by staying tight with the AMPTP than fighting for writers. Plus he screwed us when he opened his trap in support of the DGA deal during our strike — it was not his place to speak.
  My vote will be against Wells more than anything else.

  Nikki, do you have the ability to put up a poll here to see which way readers are leaning?

  Comment by beebee — Monday August 24, 2009 @ 12:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• In politics, as in war, the leader you want is the guy who will do anything to win the war. Based on his track record, John Wells is that leader. He will do ANYTHING to win, even shoot his own troops.

  Comment by Mel Gibson's The Patriot — Tuesday August 25, 2009 @ 11:31am PDT  Reply to this post