How about putting that money back into the Union employees funding?
Feb 24, 2014 14:40:47 #
By M.D. Kittle |
Big Labor pledges it will go all in, again, in its drive to knock out its top political adversaries in 2014.
And one of the biggest targets is Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, hero to conservatives, bane of the left for his public-sector collective bargaining reforms.
MAD MONEY: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wants to make the minimum wage the No. 1 issue this e******n year. His Big Labor pals are willing to spend heavily to go after five Republican governors, including Wisconsins Scott Walker, who have cost unions some of their power base over the past few years.
Michael Podhorzer, political director of the AFL-CIO, in a New York Times piece last week said the nations labor unions look to spend at least $300 million going after Republicans in this falls e******ns.
Much of that spending is expected to be dropped on four industrial battlegrounds Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, traditional union strongholds. Big Labor also wants Florida.
Their hope is to not only oust the Republican governors of those states, but also to flip several of the legislative chambers. In all five states the Republicans control both houses, the Times piece notes.
Organized labor spent about $300 million in 2010 targeting e******ns. This time around, the unions intend to hammer a theme they see as the winner this e******n year: Boosting the minimum wage.
Raising wages for all workers is the issue of our time and, hopefully, will be the issue of this e******n, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said during the annual meeting last week in Houston.
As the Times piece points out, Big Labor is looking for payback, ramping up to hit governors like Walker, whose Act 10 handed public employee unions one of their biggest losses, and Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder for delivering a right-to-work law that ends forced union dues in the home of the United Auto Workers.
Its about survival, Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and chairman of the AFL-CIOs political committee, told the newspaper. Whats happened didnt just hurt public-sector unions, it hurt the entire labor movement, Saunders said of Walkers law that rolled back the power of public-sector unions in Wisconsin.
Conservatives are biting back.
(Last week), the AFL-CIO announced that they are planning to spend at least $300 million this year to unseat five GOP governors. $300 MILLION! And guess who is on that list? Walker campaign manager Stephan Thompson wrote in a fundraising appeal.
While Governor Walker has been focused on moving Wisconsin forward and turning a $3.6 billion deficit into nearly a $1 billion surplus, the big-government unions have been focused on taking the state back to the days where they reigned supreme the days where taxes and unemployment were skyrocketing, adds the campaign email, asking would-be donors to contribute $10, $20, or $30 to help Governor Walker combat these liberal special interests who are only just beginning their nasty campaign to take back Wisconsin.
Big Labor and other liberal outside special interest groups dumped nearly $36 million into Wisconsins spate of recall campaigns in 2012, according to an analysis by the liberal-leaning Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. The figure includes the recall e******n Walker won, handily beating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a Democrat.
But Walker and his supporters proved up to the challenge, with conservative groups spending $22.6 million on the governors recall race, compared to $14 million by groups supporting the Democrat candidates, according to WDC.
Walker and Republican groups and committees outspent all of the Democratic candidates, groups and committees $58.7 million to $21.9 million in the nearly $81 million governors race, the review concludes.
Walkers re-e******n campaign raised $5.1 million during the last six months of 2013, moving into the year with $4.6 million cash on hand.
His Democrat challenger, Mary Burke, a former Trek Bicycle executive and a member of the Madison Metropolitan School Board, raised $1.4 million between October, when she jumped into the race, and the end of the year. Burke, a millionaire who served as state Commerce secretary under former Democrat Gov. Jim Doyle, unloaded another $400,000 of her own money into the campaign during the period.
Those fundraising numbers are just the tip of the iceberg in the big money chase to come, campaign watchers say.
The Republican Governors Association last week launched a six-figure ad buy going after Burke, reminding v**ers that she worked for a governor who presided over one of Wisconsins most significant periods of job loss.
Waste, mismanagement Mary Burke would take Wisconsin backwards, concludes the first ad, which rolled out on Wednesday.
Burkes campaign countered with a statement, in part saying, Scott Walkers Governors Association is clearly panicked at the realization theyre running against a proven job creator.
Walker, a much-talked-about potential GOP candidate for president in 2016, carries a big national target on his back in his bid for re-e******n this year.
John McAdams, a political science professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, said Walker in many ways is the ideal conservative for the right, particularly his image as an economic conservative. For the left, there is a symbolic importance in beating the Republican governor.
Organized labor has a very long-term interest as the implementation of Walkers Act 10 is seen as a political failure for them, and their recall effort failed, McAdams said.
If Walker is not re-elected they can say they won the war, even if they lost about four big battles along the way, he said.
But its still early, McAdams said. While Big Labor may be putting a big target on Walkers back, should Burke lose ground in the polls and become a less attractive political investment, the labor movement will move on and spend its money elsewhere, McAdams said.
Lets just say the political types, the people out soliciting campaign contributions are watching the development of campaigns almost in minute detail, the pundit said.
In the most recent Marquette Law School Poll, Walker expanded his lead to 6 percentage points. The bigger issue for Burke? A vast majority of registered v**ers who responded to the poll had no idea who she was.
Nationally, groups like American Bridge, tied to Hillary Clinton and backed by big-money liberal donor George Soros, are spending a lot of cash and manpower trying to pin the politically charged John Doe investigations on Walker. The first such secret probe ended in March 2013, after nearly three years, without any charges of wrongdoing against the governor.
A second investigation was launched by the same Democrat-led Milwaukee County District Attorneys office in August 2012. The presiding judge has quashed several subpoenas, ruling prosecutors did not show compelling evidence that conservative groups illegally coordinated with campaigns during the 2012 recall e******ns.
Big Labor has pledged payback for the big policy losses theyve suffered, conservative-led reforms that are costing unions members, money and power. Labor union membership remained flat in 2013, at 11.3 percent of the working population, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the numbers have plummeted during the past 30 years, from 17.7 million union workers in 1983, or 20.1 percent, to 14.5 million last year.
Big Labors hope lies in big victories at the polls and that drive wont come cheap.
Its revenge time for AFL-CIO officials, who have publicly declared war on (Michigan Gov.) Rick Snyder and (five) other Republican governors in the 2014 e******ns, declared an August 2013 post by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, an organization committed to exposing the inequities of compulsory unionism, according to its website.
Snyder, who signed a Right to Work bill in 2012, is sure to be the most important target for AFL-CIO union officials who have million(s) of forced-dues dollars to spend on the 2014 e******ns, ILRR stated. And all you ever hear about is the evil Koch Boys!!!!!
Big Labor pledges it will go all in, again, in its drive to knock out its top political adversaries in 2014.
And one of the biggest targets is Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, hero to conservatives, bane of the left for his public-sector collective bargaining reforms.
MAD MONEY: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wants to make the minimum wage the No. 1 issue this e******n year. His Big Labor pals are willing to spend heavily to go after five Republican governors, including Wisconsins Scott Walker, who have cost unions some of their power base over the past few years.
Michael Podhorzer, political director of the AFL-CIO, in a New York Times piece last week said the nations labor unions look to spend at least $300 million going after Republicans in this falls e******ns.
Much of that spending is expected to be dropped on four industrial battlegrounds Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, traditional union strongholds. Big Labor also wants Florida.
Their hope is to not only oust the Republican governors of those states, but also to flip several of the legislative chambers. In all five states the Republicans control both houses, the Times piece notes.
Organized labor spent about $300 million in 2010 targeting e******ns. This time around, the unions intend to hammer a theme they see as the winner this e******n year: Boosting the minimum wage.
Raising wages for all workers is the issue of our time and, hopefully, will be the issue of this e******n, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said during the annual meeting last week in Houston.
As the Times piece points out, Big Labor is looking for payback, ramping up to hit governors like Walker, whose Act 10 handed public employee unions one of their biggest losses, and Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder for delivering a right-to-work law that ends forced union dues in the home of the United Auto Workers.
Its about survival, Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and chairman of the AFL-CIOs political committee, told the newspaper. Whats happened didnt just hurt public-sector unions, it hurt the entire labor movement, Saunders said of Walkers law that rolled back the power of public-sector unions in Wisconsin.
Conservatives are biting back.
(Last week), the AFL-CIO announced that they are planning to spend at least $300 million this year to unseat five GOP governors. $300 MILLION! And guess who is on that list? Walker campaign manager Stephan Thompson wrote in a fundraising appeal.
While Governor Walker has been focused on moving Wisconsin forward and turning a $3.6 billion deficit into nearly a $1 billion surplus, the big-government unions have been focused on taking the state back to the days where they reigned supreme the days where taxes and unemployment were skyrocketing, adds the campaign email, asking would-be donors to contribute $10, $20, or $30 to help Governor Walker combat these liberal special interests who are only just beginning their nasty campaign to take back Wisconsin.
Big Labor and other liberal outside special interest groups dumped nearly $36 million into Wisconsins spate of recall campaigns in 2012, according to an analysis by the liberal-leaning Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. The figure includes the recall e******n Walker won, handily beating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a Democrat.
But Walker and his supporters proved up to the challenge, with conservative groups spending $22.6 million on the governors recall race, compared to $14 million by groups supporting the Democrat candidates, according to WDC.
Walker and Republican groups and committees outspent all of the Democratic candidates, groups and committees $58.7 million to $21.9 million in the nearly $81 million governors race, the review concludes.
Walkers re-e******n campaign raised $5.1 million during the last six months of 2013, moving into the year with $4.6 million cash on hand.
His Democrat challenger, Mary Burke, a former Trek Bicycle executive and a member of the Madison Metropolitan School Board, raised $1.4 million between October, when she jumped into the race, and the end of the year. Burke, a millionaire who served as state Commerce secretary under former Democrat Gov. Jim Doyle, unloaded another $400,000 of her own money into the campaign during the period.
Those fundraising numbers are just the tip of the iceberg in the big money chase to come, campaign watchers say.
The Republican Governors Association last week launched a six-figure ad buy going after Burke, reminding v**ers that she worked for a governor who presided over one of Wisconsins most significant periods of job loss.
Waste, mismanagement Mary Burke would take Wisconsin backwards, concludes the first ad, which rolled out on Wednesday.
Burkes campaign countered with a statement, in part saying, Scott Walkers Governors Association is clearly panicked at the realization theyre running against a proven job creator.
Walker, a much-talked-about potential GOP candidate for president in 2016, carries a big national target on his back in his bid for re-e******n this year.
John McAdams, a political science professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, said Walker in many ways is the ideal conservative for the right, particularly his image as an economic conservative. For the left, there is a symbolic importance in beating the Republican governor.
Organized labor has a very long-term interest as the implementation of Walkers Act 10 is seen as a political failure for them, and their recall effort failed, McAdams said.
If Walker is not re-elected they can say they won the war, even if they lost about four big battles along the way, he said.
But its still early, McAdams said. While Big Labor may be putting a big target on Walkers back, should Burke lose ground in the polls and become a less attractive political investment, the labor movement will move on and spend its money elsewhere, McAdams said.
Lets just say the political types, the people out soliciting campaign contributions are watching the development of campaigns almost in minute detail, the pundit said.
In the most recent Marquette Law School Poll, Walker expanded his lead to 6 percentage points. The bigger issue for Burke? A vast majority of registered v**ers who responded to the poll had no idea who she was.
Nationally, groups like American Bridge, tied to Hillary Clinton and backed by big-money liberal donor George Soros, are spending a lot of cash and manpower trying to pin the politically charged John Doe investigations on Walker. The first such secret probe ended in March 2013, after nearly three years, without any charges of wrongdoing against the governor.
A second investigation was launched by the same Democrat-led Milwaukee County District Attorneys office in August 2012. The presiding judge has quashed several subpoenas, ruling prosecutors did not show compelling evidence that conservative groups illegally coordinated with campaigns during the 2012 recall e******ns.
Big Labor has pledged payback for the big policy losses theyve suffered, conservative-led reforms that are costing unions members, money and power. Labor union membership remained flat in 2013, at 11.3 percent of the working population, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the numbers have plummeted during the past 30 years, from 17.7 million union workers in 1983, or 20.1 percent, to 14.5 million last year.
Big Labors hope lies in big victories at the polls and that drive wont come cheap.
Its revenge time for AFL-CIO officials, who have publicly declared war on (Michigan Gov.) Rick Snyder and (five) other Republican governors in the 2014 e******ns, declared an August 2013 post by the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, an organization committed to exposing the inequities of compulsory unionism, according to its website.
Snyder, who signed a Right to Work bill in 2012, is sure to be the most important target for AFL-CIO union officials who have million(s) of forced-dues dollars to spend on the 2014 e******ns, ILRR stated. And all you ever hear about is the evil Koch Boys!!!!!
Feb 24, 2014 15:05:58 #
Many people are so ignorant that they believe unions use dues money to defend working people from politicians who work against their family's , the t***h is that only the small voluntary contributions made by members and their family's to union PAC's can be used to support candidates and b****t issues that support working family's. On the other hand corporations can secretly use share holders money to make campaign contributions and they do at a rate many times that of working family's. Why do you think American workers have taken such a beating with crazy trade deals, loosing insurance, old age pensions and standard of living? oh I forgot it is because of those lazy people of color and the guy next door who is still getting by in a Union job, not the policy's bought and paid for by huge multinational corporations. Please don't keep guzzling the cool aid you are not just digging your own grave with your ignorance you are helping to bury the American middle class.
Feb 24, 2014 15:14:37 #
Kevyn wrote:
Many people are so ignorant that they believe unio... (show quote)
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Feb 24, 2014 15:16:20 #
Kevyn wrote:
Many people are so ignorant that they believe unio... (show quote)
Kevyn: Get off the poo....poo its not good for you....your rambling again....again....with half-t***hs and bald-faced lies!!! Unions have lost there charter in this Country...They should hang their leaders!!!!
Feb 24, 2014 16:38:13 #
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Kevyn: Get off the poo....poo its not good for you....your rambling again....again....with half-t***hs and bald-faced lies!!! Unions have lost there charter in this Country...They should hang their leaders!!!!
union leaders today are nothing but c*******t funded thugs.....
Feb 24, 2014 16:53:59 #
The Dutchman wrote:
union leaders today are nothing but c*******t funded thugs.....
Union leaders are elected by the members of the Union and in case you were not aware of it there are not exactly loads of c*******ts around to pour money into American labor unions. Do you really think Fidel Castro is sending cash to the AFLCIO, Teamsters and UAW? Your posts grow more and more absurd with every passing day.
Feb 24, 2014 17:06:33 #
Kevyn wrote:
Union leaders are elected by the members of the Union and in case you were not aware of it there are not exactly loads of c*******ts around to pour money into American labor unions. Do you really think Fidel Castro is sending cash to the AFLCIO, Teamsters and UAW? Your posts grow more and more absurd with every passing day.
You obviously don't pay any attention to the union protest of recent years....
Feb 24, 2014 17:27:13 #
The Dutchman wrote:
You obviously don't pay any attention to the union protest of recent years....
Wow! a picture of a sign without affiliation with any labor organization that has similar common words as the t***slation from Russian of something Lennon once said posted over a picture of Lennon is proof positive that c*******ts are secretly funding American Labor Unions right under the nose of the members. I am truly pleased that you are willing to present this compelling evidence that the news media is hiding from all of us. They sure can't slip one by the Dutchman!
Feb 24, 2014 18:04:45 #
Kevyn wrote:
Union leaders are elected by the members of the Union and in case you were not aware of it there are not exactly loads of c*******ts around to pour money into American labor unions. Do you really think Fidel Castro is sending cash to the AFLCIO, Teamsters and UAW? Your posts grow more and more absurd with every passing day.
Kevyn: Go back to school...the c*******t party of America is doing quite well! Your are showing your ignorance when you say who is pouring money into union interest...ask Soros and the demorat contributors...ignorance is bliss!!! Instead of funding their pension funds...the rank and file are stubid enough to let the leadership piss $300 million to the Demoratic Socialist party of America!
Feb 24, 2014 18:16:59 #
Kevyn wrote:
Union leaders are elected by the members of the Union and in case you were not aware of it there are not exactly loads of c*******ts around to pour money into American labor unions. Do you really think Fidel Castro is sending cash to the AFLCIO, Teamsters and UAW? Your posts grow more and more absurd with every passing day.
I often wonder just how old this kevyn isn't?
Union leaders are elected by the members of the Union and in case you were not aware of it there are not exactly loads of c*******ts around to pour money into American labor unions. Do you really think Fidel Castro is sending cash to the AFLCIO, Teamsters and UAW? Your posts grow more and more absurd with every passing day.
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Kevyn: Go back to school...the c*******t party of America is doing quite well! Your are showing your ignorance when you say who is pouring money into union interest...ask Soros and the demorat contributors...ignorance is bliss!!! Instead of funding their pension funds...the rank and file are stubid enough to let the leadership piss $300 million to the Demoratic Socialist party of America!
I often wonder just how old this kevyn isn't?
Feb 24, 2014 18:19:02 #
TroubleshooterTim
Loc: People's Republic of Oregon
Labor unions often peg their negotiated wages to the minimum wage. Increases in the minimum wage can therefore trigger new wage negotiations or immediate pay hikes for unionized employees.
This isn't about helping the low wage earner.
This isn't about helping the low wage earner.
Feb 24, 2014 18:57:59 #
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Kevyn: Go back to school...the c*******t party of America is doing quite well! Your are showing your ignorance when you say who is pouring money into union interest...ask Soros and the demorat contributors...ignorance is bliss!!! Instead of funding their pension funds...the rank and file are stubid enough to let the leadership piss $300 million to the Demoratic Socialist party of America!
The last I checked there is not one single member of the c*******t or for that matter the socialist party holding any elected seat in the US government. One socialist party member holds a seat in one state legislature in the entire country, do you really think this is doing quite well? It is fact that the money labor spends on campaign contributions is ONLY voluntary contributions from union members and their familys, never dues or pension funds. Are you actually that uninformed, or just another right wing liar?
Feb 24, 2014 19:09:42 #
TroubleshooterTim
Loc: People's Republic of Oregon
Kevyn wrote:
The last I checked there is not one single member ... (show quote)
Kevin,
I do not believe you have all the information here correct. You stated as fact something that is untrue.
Communications Workers of America v. Beck (1988) allows union member to request a percentage of refund of dues comparable with what was donated to political causes. Just cause you can ask for a refund doesn't mean that it is voluntary.
The next big decision ◦Citizens United v. Federal E******ns Commission (2010) changed the McCain-Feingold intent dramatically. Unions can make independent expenditures from its general treasury without creating a PAC. The court held that the BCRA section that banned this political speech violated the First Amendment.
Feb 24, 2014 19:22:39 #
Kevyn wrote:
The last I checked there is not one single member ... (show quote)
kevyn: No; I'm not another right wing liar....but my interest in this Country is to remove your marxist/socialist agenda from the face of this Country and marginalize peterheads like yourself who insist upon breeding such heresy and buffoonery!!
Feb 24, 2014 19:22:47 #
Kevyn wrote:
The last I checked there is not one single member ... (show quote)
American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks
The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.
This admission was recently posted on Scribd.com:
American Socialist V**er
Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?
A: Seventy
Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?
A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez,
Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].
Q: Who are these members of 111th Congress?
A: See the listing below
Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Senate Members
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
House Members
Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William Lacy Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)
Yes Kevin, you definitely need to get your mommy to help you research, or better yet get her to do it for you....
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