Posted on 08/26/2010 12:04:38 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) hit back at AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Thursday for calling her rhetoric "poisonous."
Trumka went to Anchorage, Alaska — Palin's political backyard — to deliver a speech in which he is expected to criticize Palin's language, which he says could incite violence from her supporters.
"And down in Tyler, Texas, she’s talking about — and I quote — 'union thugs.' What? Her husband’s a union man. Is she calling him a thug? Sarah Palin ought to know what union men and women are," Trumka will say. "That’s poisonous. There’s history behind that rhetoric. That’s how bosses and politicians in decades past justified the terrorizing of workers, the murdering of organizers."
Palin responded on her widely-followed Twitter account, saying:
Know our hardworking union friends (esp from my days as an IBEW sister, Todd IBEW & USW brother) aren't sheep, they'll ask: Trumka's motive? Think Trumka's frustrations r w/Obama, not me (high unemplymnt, deals w/Obama&his subsequent broken promises)so understandable Rich's ticked
AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale quickly fired back, saying that she undermined her message by resigning as governor last year.
"Basically, she's having a temper tantrum, putting her hands over her ears and yelling 'la la la la la, I can't hear you,' " Vale said. "Because if she had actually read the speech the motivation and message are crystal clear. She left working families in Alaska behind when she tried to trade up to Fox News and the Tea Party. We understand that she wants to keep up her faux populism and image as caring about ordinary people but her actions, policies and candidates she supports speak way louder than her tweets."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Mafia thugs.
Gotta love it when the bad guys have their panties wedged up their cracks....
“’union thugs.’ What?”
Thugs like this, sir:
Janitor Protest Expected to Snarl Traffic in Century City
A “Janitors for Justice” protest planned for Thursday is expected to create major traffic problems in the Century City area.
The protest will take place outside JP Morgan Chase’s Century Plaza Towers, located at 2000 Avenue of the Stars.
About 600 people are expected to turn out for the rally, in support of 19 janitors who recently lost their jobs there. Fifty-seven of their co-workers, who were left to pick up the additional work, walked out in protest and were then suspended by JP Morgan Chase.
The LAPD has confirmed the following street closures for Thursday, between 11:45 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.:
Century Park East between Santa Monica Boulevard and Olympic Boulevard; and Constellation Boulevard between Century Park East and Avenue of the Stars.
Source: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-janitor-protest,0,1690402.story
Eddie Vale can kiss my arse!
Palin should realize that she doesn’t have to respond to everyone.
The “Union Thugs” statement was accurate, and I think most people who hear it will understand it.
(1) Trumka is a crook whom the Klintoon administration let go scot free.
(2) That Sarah's got stones. She doesn't back down from any of these lib clymers.
“Basically, she’s having a temper tantrum, putting her hands over her ears...”
I’d say her hands are on their ears ... boxing them ...
The problem with this whole thing is that its not a fair fight...a union thug trying to match wits with Sarah, is like a putting in a retarded child for the Nobel Prize... LOL
The head union thug Trumka has a lot of guts talking about terrorizing and murdering people, he should be spouting that from a federal slammer.
Sarah had to response just by the fact that Trunkie boy mischaracterize her speech where she was talking about the union leaders not the workers as being thugs
Yup. And notice how none of the other aspirants to 2012 (Mittens, Pawlenty, etc.) expend even the slightest smidgen of time and/or effort in taking said creeps on, in comparison.
America needs a street fighter to take back America from these godless thugs without morals that embrace Alinsky’s “Whatever it takes” policy.
He's in union BOSS class, or just a boss in reality. He IS what he cons the ignorant union membership to envy and hate.
Don’t insult the Mafia, just saying.
Yer right of course. Sarah doesn’t cut these thugs any slack.
“Like a putting in a retarded child for the Nobel Prize... LOL”
Been done, been won. More than once.
Exhibit A for Al
Exhibit B for Barack
Exhibit C for Carter
I’m thinking next . . .
D for Dodd
This is likely for Alaska consumption more than for national. Trumka is speaking in Alaska probably because the conservative may very well prevail for the GOP nomination over Murkowski.
Unions will be nervous in Alaska and Palin doesn't want to cede an inch to Trumka after what happened the other day.
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