Posted on 10/02/2008 5:27:23 PM PDT by Maelstorm
The California Nurses Association has begun airing an ad in battleground presidential election states that suggests voters should be concerned about John McCain's health and Sarah Palin's ability to be president if he should die in office.
The ad, airing in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin, shows images of McCain and Palin alongside a graphic that suggests a heart monitor.
Several charges against Palin are flashed on the screen, including "Opposed ‘Bridge to Nowhere' then kept the taxpayers' money" and "Wants to teach creationism in public schools," alongside a women singing "one heartbeat away."
At the end of the ad, the association notes the commercial was not affiliated with any political campaign.
The Washington Post reported that a spokesman for the Republican National Committee called the ad offensive and filled with inaccuracies. The ad was scheduled to run Wednesday and Thursday and is not scheduled to air in California.
(Excerpt) Read more at politickerca.com ...
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Since Obama is a smoker this cracks me up.
Since Obama is a smoker this cracks me up.
Doctors usually don’t do the hiring and firing of nurses in hospitals. It’s usually a director of nursing who is a nurse himself/herself.
ummm.......doctors don’t usually hire or fire nurses.
Toledo, OH RN for McCain/Palin
This a nurse’s UNION based out of Oakland, CA
Complete list of their represented facilities:
http://www.calnurses.org/facilities-bargaining/facility-list-all.html
http://www.calnurses.org/facilities-bargaining/
Since Obama is a crack smoker this ups me. Rearrange the words day!
Alot of nurses are union. This is just union BS as usual.
Sounds like they need to break the nurses unions. This is why I hate unions. I hate them more today than I ever have in my life. I’d live on the street before joining one.
You ever see how many nurses smoke or take xanex?
Some places you do not have a choice. I would be hesitant to join an institution that had a union. OTOH, the nurse’s union offers some darn good benefits too. It’d be like shaking hands with the devil to get them to pay for my RN degree.
As an old RN I can tell you the CA nurse association has been a #1 backer of ultra liberal agendas for many years. They are an embarrassment to their field.
Aren’t you nice?
This is why I hate unions. I hate them more today than I ever have in my life. I’d live on the street before joining one.Todd Palin is in a union. In fact, he might be in two. Do you think a McCain/Palin administration would agree or disagree that unions are worthy of scorn?
Stress.
Unions were okay in the day but they have outlived there usefulness.
Okay before someone has a stroke
there =their
These idiots deserve national healthcare!
First of all not ALL unions are left wing liberal hacks.
Secondly, Todd Palin is not running for VP.
Thirdly, Ronald Reagan belonged to union which proves that
union members, current or past, are not liberal hacks.
You always have a choice. Not all choices are easy.
You are right about that. If I was younger, I think I’d join the military and have them pay for it.
The National Nurses Organizing Committee is a new national union
CNA/NNOC 2000 Franklin Street, Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: (510) 273-2200 | Fax: (510) 663-1625
CNA/NNOC is a leading national advocate for universal healthcare reform
nation’s premiere nurses’ organizations and health care unions
RNs represented by CNA/NNOC have many of the best collective bargaining contracts in the nation
Deborah Burger, RN | Geri Jenkins, RN
MalindaMarkowitz, RN | Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN
CNA/NNOC Council of Presidents
http://www.calnurses.org/contact-us/
true
unions used to protect their workers
if a worker in the warehouse got laid off for nothing the whole lot of workers would walk out
now they don’t protect their workers and only go on strike if they feel the benefits are taken away fro them like the UPS strike
when I called the NEA about why fees go to helping obama they actually said to me that they are a political group it was only later when I told them that they were supposed to be protecting workers did they try and retract the comment
anyway they have just lost one more member as of today
I don’t care if all those who belong to unions aren’t leftists but when they do not speak out against their corrupt leadership then they are cowards. I’ve never belong to a union, my Dad has belonged to one all his life as a coal miner but I still hate them. They are take several thousand dollars a year in dues out of his pay and they almost always support liberals on the national ticket.
If someone has a D in front they support them. They’ve been telling miners that they should support Obama because he doesn’t support nuclear power. How ignorent is that? They think union members are idiots and many times they are proved right.
CA nurses are union. They are trying to unionize other states too. Consider the source. This does not represent most nurses believe me.
Just commenting on what I have personally observed. They should be among the last to be questioning someone’s “health”.
“Secondly, Todd Palin is not running for VP.”
That’s right, but his union is attacking someone who is running for VP: Sarah Palin.
this is obscene on the face of it.....for a health professional to be speculating on someones life or health is true evil...
Hell I’m a lab tech in the teamsters. We get daily propoganda. My co-workers think they are informed because they read the BS that comes from union in the mail.
You'd be surprised....
My single specialty practice has 50 employees about 15 of whom are RN's.
I’m sure that they were sponsors of the Folsom Street Fair last weekend.
My wife recently dropped out of the National Nurses Assn because of an email that asked nurses nationwide to support Obama.
She called the NNA, telling them she wanted to drop her membership immediately. When asked why, she told them that she didn’t think a nurses assosaciation should be involved in presidential politics, nor should they advise members how they should vote for Obama. They took her answers, duly noted.
One step further, my wife then contacted the Missouri Nurses Assn, asking if they were in the business of endorsing candidates. She was assured that the MONA only had interest in state issues, and no involvement in presidential elections. The director sympathised with my wife about the Obama NNA connection and agreed.
The left is everywhere campaigning for Obama. We must be vigilant!
LOL which can only mean Todd Palin does not control the politics of his union. And there are millions of other union members who also do not relish the politics of their union.
“My single specialty practice has 50 employees about 15 of whom are RN’s”
Unless as an anesthesiologist you share some nurses and CRNA’s with a local hospital, I would be willing to bet that not one of those nurses belongs to the CNA. They don’t need the CNA to negotiate contracts with your group. They are more than willing to use CNA contract demands when their individual contracts come up for renewal.
This is why I have a policy against joining nursing organizations. For the most part, their legislative arm always supports liberal pigs and their policies. Not with my money!
So glad I won’t have my health under their care. Nurses should be advocates for patients not activist radicals.
Do the nurses help perform abortions?
I agree. Patient advocates.
Despicable, especially from a group such as nurses who should be the last to want to use someone’s health problems for their own gain - on the other hand Frank Luntz did an interesting bit on Fox last night in which he showed clips from his famous focus group/dial-a-response routine done on the appearances of McCain and Obama on “The View” - in both cases, when McCain was savaged and Obama was almost gang-raped by the panel, both ‘pubs and ‘rats in his group registered highly negative reactions - much of the public may be getting thorooughly fed up with the nastiness being shown to McCain and the fawning over Obama........
Hey large
Just say I wanted to love your demeaning post about unions. My two sisters who are teachers in the top performing school district in my state and long-standing members of AFT would love to hear your bilge.
That should read “wanted to say”
California Nurses AssociationIOW, it has nothing to do with an association of nurses in California.
The headline is a little misleading. Knowing the Nurses Associations, I was kinda surprised to see they’d be running a McCain/Palin ad v. an anti-McCain/Palin ad. Maybe the mod could change it, or is it just me ?
CA Nurses Association = Big Labor, probably affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
You will be hard pressed to find anyone who despises unions more than I, but I tend to differentiate between the quasi-professional unions like the teachers and nurses ‘associations’ and the United Steelworkers to which Todd Palin belons, whose members are in the labor category. Both types of unions are highly politial but with the ‘associations,’ politics appears to be their sole raison d’etre.
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