Card check? Hell, these guys can’t even handle spellcheck.
Card check? Hell, these guys can’t even handle spellcheck.
EDITOR’S NOTE: We realize that by pointing out someone else’s typos we have dramatically increased the odds of having our own typo in this story, so we’ve kept it short and proofread it about a dozen times. Odds are, though, that there’s still a typo in it somewhere. Please feel free to find what we were unable to find and publicly humiliate us by pointing it out.
In an effort to rid California of the millions of illegals who sap the state’s dwindling coffers, SEIU, AFSCME and Teamsters union bosses have loaded people of color onto buses and sent them to Arizona. Their hopes are to not only help the Late Great State out of debt, but also to assist in promoting Arizona tourism.
In an effort to rid California of the millions of illegals who sap the state’s dwindling coffers, SEIU, AFSCME and Teamsters union bosses have loaded people of color onto buses and sent them to Arizona. Their hopes are to not only help the Late Great State out of debt, but also to assist in promoting Arizona tourism.
We salute you! Workers of the world unite!
THIS JUST IN: The preceding story was somehow misreported. We have learned that the Unions were shipping protesters to march against Arizona. Our mistake.
Source: Los Angeles Times
It could happen to anyone. It just plain slipped Patrick Gaspard’s mind. You know, kind of like paying taxes slipped the minds of Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle.
It could happen to anyone. It just plain slipped Patrick Gaspard’s mind. You know, kind of like paying taxes slipped the minds of Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle.
Politico.com has details of the most transparent, but absent-minded administration in history:
President Barack Obama’s political director failed to disclose that he was slated to receive a nearly $40,000 payout from a large labor union while he was working in the White House.
Patrick Gaspard, who served as the political director for the Service Employees International Union local 1199, received $37,071.46 in “carried over leave and vacation” from the union in 2009, but he did not disclose the agreement to receive the payment on his financial disclosure forms filed with the White House.
In a section on his financial disclosure where agreements or arrangements for payment by a former employer must be disclosed, Gaspard checked a box indicating that he had nothing to report.
We must be getting old and the Alzheimer’s must be kicking in, because we can’t remember the last time we forgot receiving $40,000 in severance pay.
Source: Politico.com
In the hotly contested “Stupidest PoliticallyCorrect Phrase Imaginable”, new SEIU President Mary Kay Henry (who, judging from the video is no relation to the cosmetic queen Mary Kay) has added her little band aid to the bruised egos of the illegal alien population by rebranding them “New Immigrants”. Nothing illegal about that.
In the hotly contested “Stupidest PoliticallyCorrect Phrase Imaginable”, new SEIU President Mary Kay Henry (who, judging from the video is no relation to the cosmetic queen Mary Kay) has added her little band aid to the bruised egos of the illegal alien population by rebranding them “New Immigrants.” Nothing illegal about that.
So which is the more ridiculous euphemism – “New Immigrant” used to describe illegal aliens or “Anti-choice” used to describe pro-life believers?
Or do you have your own favorite libtalk phrase?
SEIU Andy Stern left the union $85 million in the hole when he resigned. With credentials like that, it’s only natural that President Obama has appointed Stern to a position on his Deficit Commission.
This is one of those stories that makes it worthwhile for a blogger to get out of bed in the morning.
Andy Stern, Chief Thug President of the infamous Service Employees International Union, more commonly known as SEIU, left the union $85 million in the hole when he resigned.
With credentials like that, it’s only natural that President Obama has appointed Stern to a position on his Deficit Commission.
The Washington Times reports the remarkable details:
Mr. Stern has claimed victories in helping pass health care legislation and getting President Obama elected, but his impact within his own organization shows gaping budget deficits and massive underfunding of pensions.
SEIU has seen its liabilities skyrocket during the past decade. The union’s liabilities totaled $7,625,832 in 2000. By 2009, they had increased almost by a factor of 16, to $120,893,259. Meanwhile, SEIU’s assets barely tripled, growing from $66,632,631 in 2000 to $187,664,763 in 2009. A significant portion of SEIU’s current assets are from IOUs from hard-up locals.
SEIU is $85 million in debt, down from its 2008 high of $102 million, and has been forced to lay off employees.
While SEIU’s pension plans were failing and its liabilities growing, Mr. Stern seemed more concerned with electoral politics than with the internal workings of the union. Indeed, politics can account for much of SEIU’s lavish spending in recent years. “We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama – $60.7 million to be exact – and we’re proud of it,” he boasted to the Las Vegas Sun last year. In all, under Mr. Stern, SEIU spent more than $85 million to elect President Obama and give Democrats control of Congress.
Your tax dollars are in good hands. Stern may be completely unqualified to reduce the nation’s budget deficit, but he is an Obama crony. And to be completely honest, something Stern will never accomplish, being an Obama crony is the only qualification he needs.
Source: Washington Times
But wait. But wait. But wait. We thought it was supposed to be the tea partiers who are racist. Now it turns out that a leader of the SEIU thinks his own union members are racist.
But wait. But wait. But wait. We thought it was supposed to be the tea partiers who are racist. Now it turns out that a leader of the SEIU thinks his own union members are racist.
Gerry Hudson, Executive Vice President of Service Employees International Union (better known as SEIU), spoke his mind while discussing immigration reform on C-SPAN last week:
“I think we got some real problems. I spent a lot of time in Wisconsin and places like that where I have heard some of the most anti-immigrant sentiments around. It’s so f—ing rabidly racist.”
“My friends are racist. My enemies are racist. Strangers are racist. Eeeeeeeveryone is racist.”
H/T: Gateway Pundit
While the SEIU leadership is working overtime to help Democrat Martha Coakley win the Massachusetts Senate seat, its members are out on the street rallying for Republican Scott Brown.
Looks like the leadership of SIEU is, shall we say, out of step with its rank-and-file members.
While the leadership is working overtime to help Democrat Martha Coakley win the Massachusetts Senate seat, its members are out on the street rallying for Republican Scott Brown.
Union leaders and union members going in opposite directions? Seems more than vaguely reminiscent of the Reagan revolution.
Source: BluegrassPundit.com
Everything that’s wrong with the Obama administration summed up in two quick quotes, one from the LA Times and one from HotAir.com.
“I’ve talked to the President once since I’ve been on a VTC.”
– General Stanley McChrystal
Source: CBS
“(SEIU president Andy) Stern estimates he visits the White House once a week.”
– Los Angeles Times
Source: Los Angeles Times
Source: HotAir.com
