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1 posted on 09/04/2012 1:51:22 PM PDT by NYer
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Looking at that haircut would I be going too far out on a limb if I were to suspect that all of Mary Kay’s abortions were the result of encounters with a turkey baster???


23 posted on 09/04/2012 1:59:14 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Voter ID Equals "No Representation Without Respiration")
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I'd like to take out the Union bosses. So would the majority of our country's citizens. Who is this jackandape fooling?
24 posted on 09/04/2012 1:59:49 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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SEIU Union Boss: Romney “Wants To Take Us Out”…

If only,...

27 posted on 09/04/2012 2:00:29 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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I sure hope he does.


28 posted on 09/04/2012 2:01:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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Romney won’t do anything to them they wouldn’t do to him, given the opportunity. Live by the sword, die by the sword.


29 posted on 09/04/2012 2:01:59 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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And this is a bad thing?


30 posted on 09/04/2012 2:01:59 PM PDT by Jean2
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So do I.


31 posted on 09/04/2012 2:02:24 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Eat Mor Chikin!)
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I wish that were true.


33 posted on 09/04/2012 2:03:50 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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The union has so far spent about $5 million on all federal races this cycle,

that's $5 Million directly contributed i.e., "Hard Money" ...... I'll bet there is conservatively 10X that amount in "soft money"used for "member voter education " which isn't required to be reported

U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee

June 25, 1997

Big Labor's Big-Money Political Machine

Compulsory Union Dues & Campaign Finance

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

Four Million 'Harry Becks' Voted In 1996

In 1988, the Supreme Court determined that 79 percent of telephone lineman Harry Beck's compulsory union dues were spent on political and other activities unrelated to collective bargaining or union organizing. His union, the Communications Workers of America (CWA), was required to return that portion of Mr. Beck's dues. Despite the Beck decision, however, millions of union employees are still forced to pay dues as a condition of employment while their union bosses continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on politicians and political causes that their rank and file members do not support.

According to Department of Labor statistics, 80 percent (8.2 million employees) of all private sector workers covered by a union contract are required under that contract to pay union dues as a condition of employment. Like Harry Beck, nearly 4 million of these workers are forced to devote a portion of their paychecks to political activities they may not support:

Ex-Teamster Official Puts Price Tag at $400 Million in 1992

F.C. "Duke" Zeller, who for 14 years served as director of communications at Teamsters headquarters in Washington, D.C., estimates that unions spent about $400 million in the 1992 election cycle. Moreover, in his book, Devil's Pact: Inside the World of the Teamsters Union, Mr. Zeller quotes former Teamsters vice president Gene Giacumbo who states that he was present at an executive board meeting in which union president Ron Carey boasted of spending $56 million in Teamster funds to help Bill Clinton get reelected. If Mr. Giacumbo's recollection is correct, that figure represents more than 20 times the $2.4 million in PAC contributions the Teamsters reported to the FEC for the 1992 election.

Rutgers Economist Also Puts Price Tag at $300 to $500 Million in 1992

In March of 1996, during testimony before the Committee on House Oversight, Rutgers University economist Leo Troy also estimated that unions spent between $300 million and $500 million during the 1992 election cycle. This amount includes both cash contributions from union PACs and "in-kind" or "soft" money contributions consisting of such activities as voter registration drives, telephone banks, transportation to polls, and campaign "volunteers."

In a letter to the committee chairman, Professor Troy stated, "According to figures reported by the FEC (reproduced in the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. of 1995), in 1991-2, union political action committees spent just under $95 million. I estimate that "in-kind" expenditures could reasonably be a multiple of 3 to 5 times that amount."

Nothing "Soft" About Big Labor Money

By their own admission, union leaders place a high premium on in-kind political expenditures, making it easy to understand why soft money greatly exceeds PAC money. The following are excerpts from union newsletters and press accounts of soft money in action:

Paul Patton for Governor Campaign (Kentucky 1995)

Ron Wyden for Senate (Oregon 1996)


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35 posted on 09/04/2012 2:21:06 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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If he means Romney wants to end the theivery and extortion of labor unions by ending their existence, he knows that is not even a realistic topic of discussion.

But I can say that I wish it was true.

It would be the catalyst of the largest, fastest and most robust economic turnaround in the history of the USA.


36 posted on 09/04/2012 2:22:27 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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“I think he’s totally serious — he wants to take us out,” said Henry...

Henry apparently is a little light in the loafers. He's dreaming of a date with Romney.

37 posted on 09/04/2012 2:25:59 PM PDT by meyer (It's 1860 all over again - the taxpayer is the new "N" word)
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“SEIU Union Boss: Romney “Wants To Take Us Out”…”

One more big reason to vote for him!


38 posted on 09/04/2012 2:29:19 PM PDT by aquila48
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SEIU Union Boss: Romney “Wants To Take Us Out”

Yeah, so what!...You're just a bunch of moronic thieves and bullies. ALL govt work needs to be put out to bid for the private sector.

Also, gov't nonprofits need to be struck down while we're at it. Unfortunately, I don't think Romney's quite caught up to that point yet.

39 posted on 09/04/2012 2:29:52 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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“I think he’s totally serious — he wants to take us out,”

How did Romney get SEIU to campaign for him?

40 posted on 09/04/2012 2:32:32 PM PDT by marron
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Unions cause outsourcing.


41 posted on 09/04/2012 2:32:48 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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I’d love for the unions to be “taken out”. They’re a drain.


45 posted on 09/04/2012 3:23:28 PM PDT by youngidiot (The name's Bond. James Bond. James Bond Jovi.)
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I sincerely hope Romney tries to “take them out.” I won’t hold my breath though.


46 posted on 09/04/2012 3:29:08 PM PDT by MCH
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he wants to take us out

Memo to Knuckles Pelicano: Hold off on hit. They’re onto us.


47 posted on 09/04/2012 4:54:38 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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"...workers being able to join together and have an organization is the best check against corporate power...."

How's that work for gov't employees, again?

48 posted on 09/04/2012 4:54:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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