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Posted By lovemylibs 6 months ago in Political NewsLast night in St. Louis, Missouri, a reverend and staff member of SEIU was assaulted at a town hall. The incident, along with a town hall in Tampa, Florida, has been all over the radio and cable news shows. GOP operatives are rushing to paint it as SEIU
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Wolfie20076 months ago
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What a great piece of propaganda but only the liberal democrat choir are going to buy into it. Put together by the Service Employee's International Union (SEIU) who definitely have no reason to lie. I wonder if they used stimulus money for this farce.
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lovemylibs6 months ago
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I agree that it is SEIU propaganda, Wolfie2007. But on the other side of the same coin is the organized protests that are apparent from the Republican side. But on the other side of the same coin is the organized support that is apparent from the Democratic side. Now we have a three sided coin. Bizarro.
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lovemylibs6 months ago
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The reason I submitted this story is because it highlights issues surrounding the alternate reality that the government run health care debate has become.
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SO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjup0ST2GOM
This video is not just so I can say "submitted for your approval" but also for the first minute or so, Mr. Serling makes a relative comment about entertainment.-
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lovemylibs6 months ago
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The point being that television is a great medium for entertainment. Now we need to use this medium for education instead of entertainment related to government run health care debate. The townhall method of information delivery is proving to be a recipe for disaster, a twilight zone if you will, and has led us into an alternate reality dominated by the ignorant from both sides.
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automan9096 months ago
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Lets see now....
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SEIU members beat up a man handing out little flags saying "Don't tread on Me" calling him an "N" word as they stomp on his face at a Town Hall meeting and now they want to be all warm and fuzzy with us?
No thanks.
A man got beaten just because he used his First Amendment rights.
That's typical for Libs.
Where is the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Obama on this one?
The man was black.
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thewongone6 months ago
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What is this, the union members beat a conservative black man who was passing don't tread on me flags. When has propeller become a union spokes-hole page. It is all the presidents fault. It is ok for him to support ACORN and union thugs. Instead of being allowed the right to protest. We are being beaten down by a Nazi style community organizer. Fight Back, keep up the protesting.I am going to start.
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Klarissa6 months ago
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Andrew Stern:
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"Stern is a leading figure in the so-called Shadow Party, a nationwide network of more than five-dozen unions, non-profit activist groups, and think tanks whose agendas are ideologically leftist, and who are engaged in campaigning for the Democrat Party.
In July 2003, Stern -- along with fellow Shadow Party leaders Harold Ickes, Steve Rosenthal, Ellen Malcolm, and Jim Jordan -- formed America Votes, a national coalition of grassroots, get-out-the-vote organizations.
Stern also sits on the Executive Committee of yet another Shadow Party constituent group, America Coming Together.
Stern was trained in the tactics of radical activism at the Midwest Academy, which was formed by former Students for a Democratic Society members Paul and Heather Booth. This Academy was created to teach leftist community organizers how to promote social change and infiltrate the labor movement.
At that same convention, Stern and SEIU pledged to spend $40 million for more than 2,000 organizers to work full time against President George W. Bush's re-election bid in 17 key battleground states. That figure was later augmented by an additional $25 million which SEIU spent on voter-registration, voter-education, and get-out-the-vote initiatives.
At Stern's behest, the union also supplied some 50,000 "volunteers" from its member rolls to aid the aforementioned organizers during the days and weeks just prior to Election Day.
Under Stern's leadership, SEIU commonly bullies and pressures companies into signing agreements to make SEIU the representative of their employees. If a company resists joining the union, Stern and his political, media and activist allies conspire to launch "corporate campaigns" aimed at breaking down that resistance through what they term the "death of a thousand cuts." In such campaigns, the cabal of attackers harasses and disrupts company activities, sends vicious emails and letters to stockholders, intimidates customers, stalks and frightens employees, files baseless lawsuits, and plants false stories with media allies to smear the company's reputation. -
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Klarissa6 months ago
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In response, Stern and four other union leaders formed a group called the New Unity Partnership, which opposed Sweeney's reelection. When it became apparent, however, that Sweney's reelection was inevitable, Stern announced that SEIU would be withdrawing from the AFL-CIO union federation.
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In 2005 the New Unity Partnership was dissolved and re-formed as the Stern-founded Change To Win (CTW) federation, which seeks to raise the minimum wage and/or enact living wage ordinances; eliminate free trade agreements; and pass "a sensible immigration policy" recognizing that "undocumented workers contribute much to America" and "should be ... provided with a path to citizenship." CTW consists of seven unions whose combined membership exceeds 6 million. These include the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Laborers' International Union of North America, SEIU, the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, the United Farm Workers of America, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and UNITE HERE.
In September 2008 Stern was a signatory to a statement demanding that a portion of the $700 billion "bailout bill," enacted by the federal government to preserve the solvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, be used instead to fund various social and economic "justice" provisions. Said this document:
"Major public investment in new energy and conservation, rebuilding schools and infrastructure, extending unemployment and food stamps, helping states avoid crippling cuts in police and health services -- is vital to get the real economy moving and put people back to work. No bailout should proceed without being linked to support for a major public investment plan to get the economy going."
Fellow signers of the foregoing statement included Maude Hurd, Robert Borosage, John Sweeney, Nan Aron, John Podesta, Brent Blackwelder, John Cavanagh, Kevin Zeese, and Wade Henderson.
In 2008 Stern supported Barack Obama's presidential candidacy. His SEIU spent approximately $60 million to help elect Obama to the White House, deploying some 100,000 pro-Obama volunteers during the campaign (including 3,000 who worked on the election full time). Stern went on to become an immensely influential advisor to President Obama. -
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Klarissa6 months ago
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The radicalism and overlapping nature of the “coalition” is perhaps best illustrated by the Center for Community Change (CCC), an organization founded in 1968 to advance Saul Alinsky-style confrontational politics.
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The CCC board includes a founder of Students for a Democratic Society; former Congressman and current mayor of Oakland, California, Ron Dellums, an admirer of Fidel Castro; Marian Wright Edelman’s husband, Peter Edelman; La Raza Vice President Cecelia Munoz; and Heather Booth, who founded the Midwest Academy, where the SEIU’s Andrew Stern learned about union organizing.
The CCC is financed in part by George Soros’ Open Society Institute, with OSI awarding the group $2.9 million in grants in 2007 alone. Other funding sources include the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Other members of the HCAN “grassroots” include:
* Democracy for America, the organization Howard Dean founded to drive the Democratic Party to the Left following his 2004 primary loss to John Kerry. Dean was heavily favored by MoveOn.org;
* Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR). In 2007 alone, OSI approved 11 grants to LCCR totaling nearly $1.8 million;
* Progressive States Network was awarded $800,000 in OSI grants in 2007;
* The Gamaliel Foundation pocketed $150,000 from OSI in 2007;
* National Congress of American Indians, received $125,000 from OSI in 2007;
* True Majority, a far-Left organization founded by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream fame;
* USPIRG, the group of former “Nader’s Raiders” funded by OSI, Ben & Jerry's Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York under Teresa Heinz’s board tenure. Its new study asserts health care reform “could allow the creation of 2.5 million jobs over a five year period.” -
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Klarissa6 months ago
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USPIRG, the group of former “Nader’s Raiders” funded by OSI, Ben & Jerry's Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York under Teresa Heinz’s board tenure. Its new study asserts health care reform “could allow the creation of 2.5 million jobs over a five year period.”
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A lot of people to determine your medical treatment???-
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thewongone6 months ago
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It takes more inefficient government workers to do the same job the private sector does. So since it is 17% of the economy. Then it will go up to almost 50% of the economy and bankrupt the US. It is just a power grab by the Democrats.
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Klarissa6 months ago
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loveml- the true problem here is that the democrats have several bills floating around. There is nothing concrete to discuss.
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What I am afraid of is that there will be a cobbled together bill that is incomplete, open to abuse because of unclear statements, and worst of all, not discussed in its ENTIRETY before a vote is taken. -
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Klarissa6 months ago
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reading more on the internet - the health bill is a job creation bill, is has nothing to do with healthcare
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Putting America Back to Work
A State-by-State Analysis of Health Reform's Impact
on Short-term Job Creation and Long-Term Economic Growth
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cowboygrandpa6 months ago
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Reminiscent of the violence that was in the 50's and 60's against the civil rights activists. It started out with shouts and threats, then turned violent. Is that what it will take for these crazy obstructionists to be seen for what they are ???
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Is the money they earn from the insurance companies worth the deaths they cause ???
Pure insanity !!!!!!
Thanks LML.
Good post.
Honest debate is always needed before changes are made. Acts of violence are just a show of how little truth there is, in the movements that rely on shouting and hatred to win.
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