Occupy DC gets office space with money from SEIU

Fox News ^ | May 9, 2012

[jazusamo]

Occupy DC has gotten an upgrade from the run-down tent village where they once lived, now that one of the country’s most powerful labor unions is paying for office digs in downtown Washington.

The Service Employees International Union, one of President Obama’s biggest supporters, is paying the protest group’s $4,000-a-month rent at the Institute for Policy Studies, institute spokeswoman Lacy MacAuley told Fox News on Wednesday.

She said SEIU recently extended the offer, so Occupy organizers went shopping for office space and decided on a “separate, side suite” at the institute’s headquarters.

An Occupy spokeswoman confirmed the group is working from the space. The group settled in Monday, as first reported by The Washington Examiner.

At least one union member is not pleased with the arrangement.

SEIU member Kandy Gonzalez said Wednesday that she and other members were upset with the union spending dues on non-union concerns.

"We're not happy," she said on Fox News. "When you pay dues, you think you're paying for a better work environment."

SEUI’s political action committee reported $70.4 billion in expenditures for the 2008 Obama campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

[jazusamo]

Not surprising, I guess.

[funfan]

Well maybe Kandy will no longer support Democrats or Obama
since they are in support of the unions and what the unions are doing.

[reg45]

Obviously, the membership dues for SEIU are too high.

[opentalk]

SEIU, one of Obamas top contributors in 2008. Remember GIbbs with his purple tie, Pelosi with the purple suit, when selling Obamacare. Title could read Obama/WH/DOJ.... sponsor occupy movement

[Don Corleone]

SEUI’s political action committee reported $70.4 billion in expenditures for the 2008 Obama campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Gracias, McCain - Feingold!!!

[jazusamo]

Title could read Obama/WH/DOJ.... sponsor occupy movement

Exactly, in fact they are.

[jazusamo]

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[GOPJ]

How long until they’re all in Union offices?

[opentalk]

This is going to get, nasty this summer if allowed

[knarf]

There's one in San Feransicko AND in DC, now.

samo-samo ... SEIU pays for the space, the shingle and the embedded ACORN extension.

Even with zero gone, there is a lot of filth and evil that must be cleansed from America.

[sergeantdave]

“This is going to get, nasty this summer if allowed.”

The fat SEIU slobs tried to crash our Tea Party back in 2009. We chased them into a building where they locked the doors, cried their little eyes out and begged for the cops to rescue them.

[Chode]

[NonValueAdded]

70.4 Billion??? I don’t think so.

[jazusamo]

Correct, I’m sure that should be Million. Total union money to Zer0 in the 2008 election was around $400 Million.

[jazusamo]

I love that graphic, it’s so right on.

[Chode]

yup... but in reality, the pig is FATTER and uglier

[popdonnelly]

The SEIU isn’t a union of workers, it’s a left-wing gang.

[kearnyirish2]

How long before there are more union administrators than unionized workers paying them? We should be there by now...

[GOPJ]

yep - I think we’re ‘there’ too...