Labor union money linked to anti-Tea Party Web site
Organized labor may be putting their dollars behind an online effort to take down Tea Party groups and their “radical ideas.”
A new Web site, TheTeaPartyIsOver.org, has connections to unions, including the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
The American Public Policy Committee pays for the site, whose self-declared mission is to “prevent the Tea Party’s dangerous ideas from gaining legislative traction.”
According to Opensecrets.org, the top two financial backers of the American Public Policy Committee this year are Patriot Majority West and Patriot Majority, largely funded by union dollars.
During the 2008 election cycle, the AFSCME contributed $5.8 million and the SEIU donated $770,000 to Patriot Majority. Teamsters Union also donated $250,000, United Food & Commercial Workers Union gave $125,000 and the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO donated $6,500 to the group.
Attempts to contact the American Public Policy Committee and Patriot Majority were not successful.
The site encourages visitors to call Republicans Randy Hultgren, Arie Friedman and David McAloon — all running for the U.S. House in Illinois — to “reject the dangerous ideas of the Tea Party.”
“This movement is a fad,” the Web site reads, whose “ideas include undermining the legitimacy of the federal government in favor of a radical right-wing form of state’s rights.”
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What do these corrupt SLUGS have against FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY? pfft! Bring it on!
When they say reject the ideas of the Tea Party, they are saying reject the ideas of Americans. We all know that. Let these puff brains spend their money on attacks. They might go broke trying to break the movement. More power to ‘em.
Labor unions are theoretically brilliant, they served their purpose of protecting laborers from exploitation and abuse as our country grew into a industrial power. That being said, they have been equally destructive as our service industry has declined. Make no mistake about it, labor unions bargained their workers out of jobs in Detroit. In my view, labor unions are right up there on the list of everything that is wrong with American politics. The fact that they are exerting so much energy and financial resources to slow the momentum that the Tea Party movement is gaining only lends the movement more credibility.
“People don’t boo nobodies.” – Charles Barkley
It is time for all the members of the unions who are FORCED to pay dues and join the unions for their (and their family’s) safety and to simply have a job to rise up and QUIT the unions; I am certain if enough of them do, their employers will maintain their pay base and benefits. The time for unions is over and the ending to union tyranny is OVER in this country. Crime and high unemployment plague cities that are ruled by unions – see, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, etc. duh
it is easier said than done.. one does not usually APPLY for a job because it’s UNION.. one applies for a JOB.. you can send out 50 resume’s and you end up where there are jobs..MOST union members have no idea WHERE their dues go.. they simply pay them.. however I must point out to people that the UNION that seems to be doing all this is the SEIU.. strange.. there are many unions, some good and others like SEIU.. I know people who belong to the TEAMSTERS, they have been FAILING their members, allowing ILLEGALS to join and take jobs that American’s were doing and American’s have had their hours cut in lue of this fact.. the members KNOW this and believe me they are NOT voting the way the unions want them to.. Unions have their purpose, they set the standards that all other companies in the industries that are non union use.. however, the spending of the members money is NOT going unnoticed by the members..beleive this or not MOST union members are hard working people they do NOT want their money being wasted I know some union members who even went to D.C. to march with the Tea Party people
It’s funny to hear communists (like Andy Stern, who has published Op-Eds in “The Daily Worker”) describe Tea Party folk as “radicals”.
It’s no laughing matter that the Tea Party movement was originally proposed by libertarians and later hijacked by neocon radicals who attempt to introduce religion into a constitution that never once advocated any religion as a founding principle.
Further, the stolen movement has continued on its path of hate based, faith born ignorance to the point that it will soon drive the deathnail into its own coffin.
Liberty can only exist among people who respect the non violent choices of others and both the right and the left have long since ignored this truth.
Liberty, my friends, is the definition of freedom. If you are prepared to deny another person his/her liberty, you have effectively denied your own freedom.
How can we move the labor unions and the minorities a little more to the center. They have controlled the the liberal press, the MSM, Movies, TV and the ballot box. Once they all loose their jobs and have to work for a living maybe they will grow a set and feel the pain that the other 95% of Americans then they will understand.
Your life is in your hands, your not going to get a hand out or a bail out, no-one owns you or owes you. You reap what you sow and your voice (vote) should not be bought or sold.
Bring your products up to our standards and your prices down to everyone’s level, then maybe you can sell something in today’s global marketplace.
For now you will have to lie, cheat, steal, abuse, rig and strangle anyone willing to provide a message of freedom and liberty to an oppressed public.