"I AM
SPARTACUS!"
Meet Some of
The Diva's Many
Split
Personalities/E-Mail Aliases
March 24, 2001
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"I AM
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@home.com
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
6:01 PM
Subject: Re: Official Position
of the Democratic Party?
Are these the same morons who
said the Dems lost because they were too liberal -- when Gore won the election?
Thanks for sending this. I'm a
lifelong liberal Democrat, but my party needs to be Roto-Rootered, for real:
turn the rascals out and replace them with leaders who care about the people.
BTW, I put your
"Thphphphphph!" on top of the CLG Website, and the White House still
hasn't autoresponded to the latest raspberry I sent them, now well over an hour
ago -- something must be amiss with their servers, ya think? <g>
Kris Spartacus
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From: Spartacus"
spartacus@aol.com
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001
6:19 PM
Subject: Re: Thphphphphphphphph!
Tammy,
Keep up the great work, I love
it - fantastic website. I have never
been angrier in my life and you help save my sanity. I can't believe this guy called you an asshole, I personally
reserve that moniker for the illegitimate White House occupants.
And that reminds me of an
anecdote from a guy pal of mine, a Vietnam Vet tough guy and a Democrat. He told me he was ranting to his dad about
the Bush regime. His dad said,
"Well, son...I figure that there are a lot of assholes in the world...and
they've got to have some representation."
HAHAHAHA!!
So, high five to you on keeping
up morale! I got a great kick out of
raspberrying Resident Bush, and in return I got this lovely response
(HAHAHAHA!!!!):
"Thank you for emailing
President Bush. Your ideas and comments
are very important to him.
(bull!)
Unfortunately, because of the
large volume of email received, the President cannot personally respond to each
message. However, the White House Staff
reviews every email message and reports citizen ideas and concerns to President
Bush.
(that's funny, I seem to notice
he's immune to public opinion or he would have done the manly thing and
conceded to the rightful President Al Gore, among other things)
Again, thank you for your
email. Your interest in the work of
President Bush and the new administration is appreciated.
(interest? I am fighting for my
freedom and rights, thanks to the current threat from my own government, I
would rather be doing a hundred other things, never had to do this when
President Clinton was around)
Sincerely,
The White House Office of
E-Correspondence
Please Note:
If the subject of your email was
a request for a Presidential greeting,
please access the following
link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/greeting/
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From: " Spartacus"
spartacus@perkel.com
To: "The Diva (Tammy)"
thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001
7:16 AM
Subject: Re: DEM PARTY
OFFICIAL'S STATEMENT: DIVA IS "ASSHOLE", WEBSITE IS "MESS",
THPH CAMPAIGN TO E-MAIL BUSH IS NOT COVERED BY FIRST AMENDMENT
Well, you're getting noticed.
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From: " Spartacus"
spartacus@home.com
To: webmistress@gorewon2000.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001
6:04 PM
Dear Tammy,
Please don't take that idiot
Hauptman personally. Imagine how awful
it must be being him. I'm sure his
personal relationships are a shambles, given how quickly he was dismissive and
disrespectful to you. Clearly that is
how he treats everyone; people are nothing if not consistent.
I love your web site. Your creativity is an ever-flowering plant
that inspires others. Unfortunately,
through the medium of cyber-space, our
usual intuitive filters are not operating, and strange characters get through
(even in the guise of official positions).
It is too bad he has a significant post in the Democratic Party where he
interfaces with many. It is likely he
does much damage in that regard.
It is your sensitivity that enables
you to write the beautiful and inspired way that you do, but it does have its
price.
Take care,
Nancy Spartacus
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@netnitco.net
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001
9:17 PM
Subject: two things
1. The guy who called you an
asshole is jealous. You're funny; he's not.
You can spell; he can't. Stuff
like that. Ignore it.
2. My daughter did a good deed.
She is a high school senior, and has a government teacher who gave his students
extra credit if they attended a Republican dinner, for which he bought the
tickets. (Of course, he didn't offer a Democratic dinner opportunity.) The
Republicans were all dressed up, and my daughter and her friends attended in
their blue jeans.
The state senator and
representative gave their little speeches, and then one of them said he was so
happy that the students had joined them that evening, and that hopefully they
will all vote Republican in the next election.
And at that, my daughter, who
will be valedictorian of her class this spring, let loose with a great big
"BOOOO!"
She got some dirty looks, but
said the food was great.
I am so proud!
Nancy Spartacus
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Dear Nancy:
First off, I am
bouncing back from "The Hauptman Situation" (as I now call it), and
have even satirized it on my site. It
seems my serious appeals to his reason failed.
Where logical
fails, try for belly laughs, I say!
Now, on to your
daughter's situation:
THIS SOUNDS
ILLEGAL TO ME! OR AT LEAST AGAINST
SCHOOL OR DISTRICT POLICY!
Right? I mean, offering extra credit to students
for attending a partisan political event at which they will be recruited as
potential voters for a particular party?
By the way, I read
your e-mail to my boyfriend, and he laughed out loud when I read,
"BOOOO!"
:)
(PS: I was a valedictorian, too, and if I had
known then what I know now, I would have used my chance at the podium to raise
a little hell. Unfortunately, I didn't know then what I know now -- I don't
think any of us did...)
Send your daughter
my love and admiration!
-Tammy
"The
Diva"
coup2k.com
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Dear Tammy,
Yes, it's illegal, and the
teachers here do many illegal things. We know better than to raise too much of
a stink in Indiana...we are under very
heavy Republican siege in rep.Steve Buyer's (next to Dan Burton's) district.
She has fought a few fights,
including recently filing a complaint against a teacher who was gay bashing.
I've been asked by several
people to run for school board, but these voters here, well hell Tammy, they
probably ain't gonna let a girl do that!
I know so well what kind of
world the right-wing wants to create. Here, as I've heard it described in
Texas, a lot of Democrats are so conservative they seem like Republicans. I
should move away, because it makes me nuts. The place is crawling with
christianity. And, WE HAVE THE KLAN!
Thanks for the nice words about
my daughter. She plans to use her podium time wisely, but has not revealed the
plan.
I look at your site every day -
thanks, it's a lifeline.
Nancy
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Dear Nancy:
I know what you
mean about living in the political equivalent of Dante's Inferno.
When Chuck and I
first moved to California, we lived in Irvine, in Orange County (read: Bob Dornan Country). I was never more unhappy in my life. It was
the most racist, classist, obnoxious, pretentious, snotty, trying place I have
ever lived.
Luckily, we have
since moved to Long Beach, which is an integrated city, and even has a strong
democratic base.
Still, there are
those moments when I am still confronted with rightwing rottenness, so just
remember:
No matter where
you go, there you are...
(But if you DO
decide to bail out of Indiana, and make a run for Southern California, COME SEE
ME!)
:)
-Tammy
"The
Diva"
coup2k.com
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@aol.com
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
2:18 AM
Subject: rphauptman@aol.com
Hey Diva,
After sending Rick Hauptman a
few e-mails, letting him know that he was the major a_ _hole; plus a few
Thphphphphph! ...
He locked me out.... good, he
he.
Don Spartacus
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Dear Don:
You are living
proof that laughter is not only the best weapon, but a wickedly effective tool...
Your e-mail made
me smile, BIG time (which I really needed).
May I ask, was
your decision to write Mr. Hauptman inspired by the BBBR site satire, the
posted e-mail exchange (http://coup2k.com/hauptman.html), or did you read about
the situation on one of the eGroups?
Whichever, I am
immeasurably grateful, not only for your willingness to champion me, but for
your wit, and for making me smile.
-Tammy
"The
Diva"
coup2k.com
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@email.msn.com
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
2:21 AM
Subject: My Letter to RB Haupman
Dear Diva,
I was personally insulted, when
I read RB Hauptman's cruel and uncalled for comments regarding you and your
website.
As I told Mr. Hauptman, websites
like yours have offered me some degree of solace since the Coup, which is more
than I can say for many of the actions of the Democratic party, which have included abandonment and capitulation. I have, in fact, experienced a good deal of pain due to their appeasement of Bush
and total abandonment of President Clinton.
How dare Mr. Hauptman insult you
in that way, when you have taken it upon yourself, unrewarded, to take some
action to address the hideous situation in which we find ourselves. I suggested that he apologize to you, and
that his remarks apply more appropriately to himself. As a centrist Democrat, I
realize that this has been a hard time for the Democratic party...so I
have tried not to jump on our officials;
but for someone like Mr. Hauptman to insult people who are trying to
help, is beyond the pale. I hope his
apology will be forthcoming, and that the Democratic party will wake up and
smell the coffee...NOW!
You are supported,
Linda Spartacus
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@cs.com
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
7:17 AM
Subject: Re: The Rick Hauptman Statements
From what ***** wrote, and from
what I've witnessed of his tactics, the guy just isn't worth it. He's a LO-SER! He's a Freeper in liberal's clothing.
He really should be exposed for
what he is. He's a wussy. I think it's rather funny how he let's his
snide comments fly, and then blocks any response to them. I believe I will send Mr. Hauptmann another
letter from my work e-mail and let him know what an embarrassment he is.
Sincerely,
Mindy Spartacus
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@home.com
To: "The Diva (Tammy)"
thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
7:24 AM
Subject: Re: Your wonderful
letter
Dear Tammy,
There are a lot of sites out there
that gather news and give opinion critical of the Criminal in Chief. But yours is the only one that gives it such
a personal touch, one so many of us identify with. Your piece where you described how your life had virtually been
on hold since the election with you in your robe on the computer with an
unswept house, and friends with names such as... well, I don't remember the
details, but I was crying I was laughing so hard. I was reading about myself.
I posted that one on my Salon
thread, and everyone recognized him/herself.
We all loved it. (Just one
example. There are many.)
The point here is there are
millions who still feel tremendous pain over what has happened, and each day
the Corporation Whore in Chief manages to rub salt in the wound. You have a wonderful way of speaking for
many of us, and at the same time making us laugh. Please know you are much
appreciated by your readers.
Perhaps the most painful thing
in the Hauptman incident is the feeling of betrayal. The sense of community that has grown since the coup is enormous. It seems like an incredible betrayal when
one of us turns on another. If a
wingnut had called you a nasty name, I doubt it would have been so
upsetting. (They are all jerks
anyway.) But when one of our own attacks,
and all we have is each other in these sordid times, it is a total
disconnect. It rips us from the only
really healing thing in all this morass:
that there are millions of us who agree and share the same pain and
anger and hopes for the future. I would
think that the Hauptman incident would have challenged that sense of
connectedness, even for a moment, and that is what sent you into a tailspin.
I don't mean to ramble
here. Mostly I want to offer you
support and the hope that you can extrapolate from this event some kernel
of strength and wisdom that will
ultimately invigorate you.
Warm wishes,
Nancy Spartacus
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Dear Nancy:
You don't know how
much your support means to me.
Yesterday was a bad, sad, awful day.
Maybe the stress is starting to get to me, but I was actually
considering deleting my site from the web, after "The Hauptman
Incident" (as I now refer to it), and calling it a day as far as resisting
the coup goes.
Then I received a
call today from my almost-sister-in-law (she was worried about me), and she
told me to use my humor to vent a little, so I did.
So, Mr. Hauptman
has now been immortalized on my site forever, in the form of one of my
satires. (Not my finest hour, stooping
to revenge, but it was either that, or go nuts stewing in my own juices...)
Just sign me,
-Tammy
The "Not
Above Getting Down in the Gutter (Occasionally)" Diva
coup2k.com
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@gvtc.com
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
8:42 AM
Subject: Hauptman
Diva- Went to your website, and it looks great to me. Also sent a chastisement to Mr/? Hauptman,
suggesting that when he had done half so much for the cause, then he might
consider looking up and he might be able to kiss your feet. People like that 'really' piss me off. Have a great day.
In Solidarity,
Victor Spartacus
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@home.com
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
9:11 AM
Subject: THE DIVA JOINS ADAM
CLYMER HONOR ROLL...
Your Rick Hauptman
"Saga" was absolutely hilarious Tammy, reminiscent of my own go
around with the vapid rectum in the past, when he was a member of FOB. Your control was admirable, and your style
elegant.
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@bellsouth.net
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
9:57 AM
Subject: about the a**hole
remarks....
What an honor to be in the same
catagory with Adam Clymer. And what a major league know nothing, no account,
mindless, rat faced idiot that Hauptman is.
Just my humble opinion.
Pat Spartacus
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@optonline.net
To: "Spartacus"
spartacus@twrol.com
Cc: "Spartacus" spartacus@aol.com;
"The Diva (Tammy)" thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
10:20 AM
Subject: Re: THE DIVA JOINS ADAM
CLYMER HONOR ROLL Is Declared an Ahole By Democratic Chair
The Diva, this Goddess, this new
found friend of mine,
she is much more than just
divine.
She cherishes the farthest
satrapies of her Royal Land.
Her love of man can only be
compared to Eve, the wife of Adam.
She gave God specific, detailed
instructions for her man,
"Dear Lord, just take a rib
and make him stand
and I will make him master of
all my land.
Her cities sit on Golden Hills.
Her army is all real men in
uniforms, not frocks and frills.
They are protected and not
exposed to all those awful ills.
Her beds are soft and warm. Her
soldiers meet no bloody harm,
nor shout out false alarms while
she holds them in her loving arms.
From the Artic to the Antarctic,
the joy of the Globe around its middle,
We hear both fife and fiddle.
They make their loving shout of
VIVA LA DIVA.
Her fame and love of man is
without a glitch.
She is a real beloved bitch,
Carl Spartacus
Just an "Old Man," so
stupid that he cannot stand.
Now I dream of my Anglo/Cajun
joy,
my Madam Kat, my little toy,
that pretty brat.
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Dear Spartacus:
I've received all
of your messages, and I appreciate them more than you know. You have made me smile (something I consider
a very good deed). I especially liked
your "Eve" poem.
I am bouncing back
from The Hauptman Situation, as I wrote about on my site.
I do not consider
him representative of the Democratic Party, and I hope you will not consider
him representative of gay people, either.
I know many (I am an honorary gay man, a title awarded to me by the gay
community in Austin, TX), and I can assure you that Mr. Hauptman is nothing
like the gay people I know and love.
Thanks again for
everything, and for caring about me enough to keep writing.
-Tammy
"The
Diva"
coup2k.com
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@big-rock.org
To: RBHauptman@aol.com
Cc: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
12:29 PM
Subject: www.coup2k.com
Dear Mr. Hauptman,
I have a question: Did you learn
your people skills from Karl Rove?
Tammy, the "Diva" of
www.coup2k.com, has worked for hours per day since the appointment of George W.
Bush on an outstanding website. Tammy has helped others like me to embrace
activism as a daily way of life, not as an occasional twinge of conscience. I
feel she and her website are invaluable to the Democratic fight to pick up
seats in the House and Senate during 2002's elections. Do you offer anywhere
near the activist opportunities that www.coup2k.com offers daily? If the
Democratic outrage and anger over the botched election remains untapped and
ignored, how do you think that those elections are going to go? Are you aware
that George W. Bush turned down funding yesterday for election reform? In other
words, we're looking at more of the same problems in a year.
Mr. Hauptman, did you think you
were being clever by pretending to misunderstand Tammy's meaning of the latest
"Bronx cheer for Bush" e-mails to whitehouse.gov, (implying instead
that they were spamming e-lists,) and by calling her an "asshole"? It
is difficult for me to imagine anyone thinking that style of non-communication
was acceptable being in any position of leadership, let alone the leadership of
my political party.
George W. Bush seems to believe
that everyone thinks his ridiculous policies are great. Don't you think it's
time to disabue that notion? What would you suggest to be more effective at
getting our point across that the 100 million in this country that didn't vote
Republican aren't happy? Democratic protests at Bush's events are being
virtually ignored by the mainstream press.
You owe Tammy an apology.
Publicly. Sooner than later.
Julie Spartacus
----- HIS REPLY -----
From: RBHauptman@aol.com
To: "Spartacus"
spartacus@big-rock.org
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
12:50 PM
Subject: Re: www.coup2k.com
you didn't see her obnoxious
messages to me, so how dare you ask me for an apology. she owes me one for posting a private
conversation publicly. shame on you.
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@big-rock.org
To: RBHauptman@aol.com
Cc: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
1:04 PM
Subject: Re: www.coup2k.com
Again, Mr. Hauptman, I want to
know: What are you doing to rally the Democratic base, instead of flinging
insults and feigning outrage? Do you often respond with this much firepower
when told that you are, perhaps, wrong? "Shame on you?" For God's sake.
When you are in a leadership
position of a political party and call someone an "asshole" on an
e-list, or even through private e-mail, you might want to rethink your
approach.
Tammy attempted to work the
problem out with you via e-mail. Your response to this was to block any
response she might make to your e-mail. She had no other choice, in my opinion,
than to answer you publicly. Frankly, I think you'd better mend fences.
Julie Spartacus
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@optonline.net
To: "The Diva (Tammy)"
thediva@respectperfection.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
2:57 PM
Subject: Marriage Proposal
My New Goddess Friend:
Should you here that I want to
marry you, just deny it, because I won't. I'm only 76.
Thank you for slamming into Rick
Hauptman. You are my kind of Gal.
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From: "Spartacus"
spartacus@planetout.com
To: thediva@coup2k.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001
4:18 PM
Subject: The Hauptman Situation
Hi Diva!
Thanks for not throwing in the
towel. We need you. I, personally, admire and respect you more than I can
explain for rising to the challenges given us at this moment in history with
the grace and courage you display daily. I admire your articulate messages and
your good humor, and I stand in awe of your strength.
If you ever wonder if what you
are doing is worth it, the answer is YES. For me, at least, and for hundreds or
thousands like me I'm sure, the answer is YES.
You stand on the front line, and
I am deeply grateful, because I do not think I could do what you are doing and
survive; and someone has to do it. Many of us recognize your great sacrifices.
I know that I do not thank you enough.
But I read your page whenever I
am at home, and I use the information you provide to write to my Congressmen
and Congresswomen, and to keep up my spirits and my will to keep fighting.
You are a touchstone for
courage.
Thank you.
I have written to Rick Hauptman,
and am sending you a copy of that letter.
I have also made a couple of
animated GIFs of a
rotating orange ribbon. I was going to post them on my site this evening.
If you would like, I would be happy to send them on to you to post for anyone
who wants a graphic to use on their site.
Once again, thanks for the work
you do. Don't let the idiots get you down!
There are more of us than there are of them.
Robin Spartacus
http://www.robinspartacus.com/
http://robinspartacus.com/Democracy.html
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Dear Mr. Hauptman,
I am sorely disappointed in your
treatment of The Diva, who has become one of my personal heroes, as well as a
hero for many others.
You may not wish to send a
single e-mail to the White House. You may think that 48 is overkill. That is
your choice. Many of us would rather fight the injustice that has been visited
on us in any legal way possible; including poking fun at those who would harm us. The message of those
e-mails may have been brief, but it was emphatic, as well. The readers hired by
the administration could not have missed the point.
I find your repeated messages to
her after you had blocked her responses childish and unworthy of anyone who
holds any position of authority in any party or organization.
No wonder the coup was
successful, with people like you at the helm of the Democratic Party. No wonder
it cannot pull itself together, with people like you trying to divide the
workers against themselves.
I would hope that the opposition
to the current administration was lead by dedicated adults. In this exchange, I
saw one deeply dedicated adult, unpaid and often unthanked, who has worked
tirelessly since the early days in November to keep thousands of us informed,
keep our spirits up, and keep our hope and our activism alive.
You are not that adult.
If, by your actions, you had
silenced her voice you would have done a grave injury to your party, and to the
dream of regaining an America that once again shines with freedom and justice
for all. An America in which every voice, and every vote, is heard and counted,
and in which all people are equal. If that is what you were trying to
accomplish, then I have nothing but contempt for you.
I would hope that my assessment
of you is incorrect, and that you would prove that you are, in fact, a grown-up
by apologizing publicly to the woman who is listed first on most resistance
sites (including mine.) If you do issue such an apology, then I will conclude
that you were having a bad day. That can happen to anyone.
If you do not, then I cannot
help but conclude that you consider yourself
somehow superior to those of us who work in grassroots organizations.
That you have separated yourself from
the people you profess to represent, and that, in fact, you speak for no one
but yourself.
Hoping to read a resolution on
the BBBR site (which I follow daily,)
I remain,
Robin Spartacus
http://www.robinspartacus.com/
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From: "Spartacus"