The man behind the flyer is
community activist Stanley Washington. After getting yelled at by union reps, Washington defended his flyer on a technicality. He seemed to think he was a genuine force for good—a charitable interpretation is that he assumed the board would be overwhelmed by the tide of job wanters that they’d simply sign people up, but that seems unlikely—rather than a misguided statement that made hundreds travel through the desert heat for jobs that didn’t exist.
“I was on legal ground everywhere,” Washington said. “Then it got down to the interpretation of the flyer. Well, what does the flyer say — the flyer says ‘pre-job recruitment signups.’ It doesn’t say, ‘come down and get a job.’
“All the different opinions, they’re welcome to that. The only thing I’m interested in is SB1, people working — I’ll take all the hits for flyers all day long.”