[NormsRevenge]

How touching.
NOT!

Kerry Criticized for Betraying Union Workers ^

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210724/posts

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National Shooting Sports Foundation ^ | Doug Painter
NEWTOWN, Conn., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a letter sent to Sen. John Kerry from National Shooting Sports Foundation President Doug Painter: National Shooting Sports Foundation President Doug Painter today criticized presidential candidate John Kerry for betraying union workers whose pleas for help he ignored earlier this year in a vote that would have protected union jobs. Kerry was also taken to task for accepting as a gift a hunting gun that could be banned under Kerry-sponsored legislation. The strongly worded letter delivered to Capitol Hill today emphasizes the Senator's hypocrisies. On Labor Day, Kerry claimed to be...

[B Knotts]

Yeah...it's so unfair to prohibit unions from stealing money from people's paychecks for politics.

Somebody get this bozo off the stage.

[longtermmemmory]

So Kerry wants the union bosses to know best how to spend member money.

What an idiot.

[CindyDawg]

I resent him speaking for me. This nurse does not belong to a union and I dropped my membership to my nuses association for supporting a candidate that I didn't.

[Doogle]

...kerry is true to form. Instead of giving union members direct involvement in where their union dues go....which political party....he thinks it's silencing people. Ketchup boy can't stand to see money that the dummies count on, go else where.

Doogle

[kingu]

Senator Kerry, are you suggesting that a union member should have a louder voice in politics than myself? Yes? Bite me. The union members can decide for themselves how much of their dues will go to political causes - you never know, they might desire to allocate more than before...

But wait, you're screaming about it, so that means you've figured out that if you can't milk union members for their dues, you'll lose out. You believe that the membership of the unions don't support what is going on. Gosh, that must stink for RATs.

[NickatNite2003]

Oh yes! It's *much* more "fair", to take union
members money away from them, without their consent,
to use for candidates and issues that the union
members get no choice, in whether or not they support or oppose...Sounds like 'taxation without representation'
to *me*.

[Bobibutu]

M. Savage rings in my ears and sears my brain - it's a disease. I never have understood the thinking of the left for going on 63 years. They are brilliant in manipulation and marketing. Their critical thinking - for me - is to warped to weave.

[digger48]

How many Heinz workers are union?

[PGalt]

Hooray Arnold!

Hey John F'n Kerry...go ride a bicycle, windsurf of Make-a-new-Plan man or...

Run John Run!

[counterpunch]

Sen. John Kerry warned Thursday that a ballot initiative backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could tip the balance of democracy by muzzling the voice of working people.

Forcing Union members to pay for political speech they don't agree with muzzles their voice.

[sgtbono2002]

As a Firefighter my International backed John Kerry. They didnt come to the Locals and ask the rank anf file who they wanted to back. The Executive Board made that decision on their own without input from the Locals. IMO the members should have a say in where their money goes. Also IMO John F'in Kerry should spend a little more time on Capito; Hill and a lot less in Caliofornia.

It might be nice if he represented the people who elected him once in a while instead of picking up his check fraudulently. Which by the way he has gotten away with for years.

[Argus]

Let's see. Forced to join a union, forced to pay dues, given no choice in how those dues are spent for political purposes, and told to shut up when you object.

The name for this is bolshevism.

[Disambiguator]

Republicans want "to strip away Democratic power," Kerry added.

Right there is a tacit admission that unions only support Democrats.

Senator, what about union members that are Republicans, hmm?

--crickets--

[infidel29]

The Governator should have asked Kerry about that form180 thing... has he really signed it? Where are the records? That sort of thing.

I think any time Kerry says anything the reply should be, "...really? so what about your military records?"

[frankjr]

How can Kerry even think that it is bad to give individuals a say in how their money is spent on political contributions?

I guess it goes along with the Lib theory that government knows how to spend our money better than we do. In fact, Kerry should propose a 100% flat tax rate for all.

[SALChamps03]

Oh, by requiring a person to take three seconds to sign a permission slip, three seconds to affix a stamp, and maybe two and one-half minutes to walk to the mailbox, this proposal will "muzzle" the voices of union workers? You gotta love The Poodle.

[Ron in Acreage]

It's funny how democrats always need to get their money by force and against ones will. Whether it be in the form of higher taxes or union dues. They cannot count on anyone to give them their money on their own free will.

[unlearner]

I propose we do this on a federal level and offer the Democrats a compromise: require unions AND publicly traded corporations to get approval from their members / share holders when making political contributions.

[BigBobber]

public employee unions see it as a threat to their political strength, and they have raised more than $80 million

This makes is sound so populist, so grass roots, doesn't it? Like they stood in front of the grocery store for hours on end and collected peoples nickles and dimes.

No forced contributions here. No sir.