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AFL-CIO head: Labor to ditch Dems
Politico ^ | August 25, 2011 | Byron Tau

Posted on 08/25/2011 9:46:42 AM PDT by Second Amendment First

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Big labor has spend mucho bucks over the last two years with nothing to show for it except smaller bank accounts, fewer dues payers and a more hostile electorate.

With Hispanics and labor moving off the plantation, blacks may be the only ones remaining in servitude.

1 posted on 08/25/2011 9:46:44 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

The thought process of union leaders takes one into an alternate universe.


2 posted on 08/25/2011 9:50:53 AM PDT by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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“We’re going to use a lot of our money to build structures that work for working people”

Vote for the AFL-CIO party, Vote Trumka 2012!

3 posted on 08/25/2011 9:50:54 AM PDT by rhombus
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I actually read that THREE times on Politoc..just to see if I coudl actually make ANY sense of what Trumka was saying...I can’t...it’s incomprehensible...I mean, like, where are the gonna go now..they have ZERO leverage..other than just stay home and sit on their wallets...which, if his polling numbers continue to worsen, they may just decide to do...


4 posted on 08/25/2011 9:51:30 AM PDT by ken5050 (Should Christie RUN in 2012? NO!!! But he should WALK three miles every day!)
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To: Second Amendment First

That will be the day.


5 posted on 08/25/2011 9:51:55 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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Going forward, Trumka said, the labor movement will build up its own political structures and organizations rather than contribute to and depend on the Democratic Party’s political operation.

Well, they already have the CPUSA, but if they want to build another failing party so be it. I say go for it. Anything to split the democrat vote is fine with me. But keep in mind, it'll be mostly the graveyard and illegals vote they get (outside of their core)...

6 posted on 08/25/2011 9:53:50 AM PDT by bcsco
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Weird story. The Unions are part of the Democratic Park.
7 posted on 08/25/2011 9:55:15 AM PDT by Hans
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Third party threat, the Labor party, to Obama, unless he delivers.... more.


8 posted on 08/25/2011 9:55:20 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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They must have spent billions of dollars getting Obama elected. The health care nuts got their dream. EPA nuts got theirs...Unions didn’t get their card check disaster passed and now they’re taking their ball and going home.

This is the best news I’ve heard all week. Obama is TOAST without the unions.


9 posted on 08/25/2011 9:56:04 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Government rushes to help the irresponsible and does little for the responsible)
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Let me translate: Instead of spending money on liberals who do nothing for us, we will spend the money on ourselves so union leaders can live even more lavish lives of luxury on the backs of their members!


10 posted on 08/25/2011 9:56:04 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
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Where are thugs like Trumka gonna go ?


11 posted on 08/25/2011 9:57:35 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Had Enough ?)
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To: Parley Baer

Well said. They’re just trying to push Baraq even farther left (is that possible?).


12 posted on 08/25/2011 9:57:37 AM PDT by nascarnation
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translation: communist trumka is going to set up a pac that will support dems in order to protect auto deduction of union dues.


13 posted on 08/25/2011 9:58:04 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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I think this is just a shot across the rat’s bow - deliver for us or else. The unions effectively have no where else to go.


14 posted on 08/25/2011 9:58:38 AM PDT by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Erik Latranyi

We are so much better off if that’s what happens. Without union money - and associated support - Obama’s got serious problems in key states (PA comes to mind).


15 posted on 08/25/2011 10:00:31 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Government rushes to help the irresponsible and does little for the responsible)
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I call BS! This is about “The 0ne” having such a big ego that he believes that it’s the Unions that everyone is mad at not him so he has told them to go out and distence themselves.


16 posted on 08/25/2011 10:00:31 AM PDT by txroadkill (I hated 0bama before it was cool)
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Promises, promises. Don’t believe a word of it.


17 posted on 08/25/2011 10:01:28 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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The unions were especially angry that Charlotte was picked as the convention site since it’s in a right to work state, and there are no union hotels there. They wanted it in St. Louis instead, but even here the movement is losing steam. A recent organizing attempt at a local manufacturer failed to garner even a quarter of the vote.


18 posted on 08/25/2011 10:02:16 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.)
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Translation: Trumka thinks that 2012 is going to be a debacle for Dems, and sees no reason to toss union money into losing races. You can only get goodies from candidates who win.


19 posted on 08/25/2011 10:02:21 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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They will never ditch the Dems.


20 posted on 08/25/2011 10:05:08 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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