Posted on 10/24/2006 8:43:04 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
"...Nancy Pelosi has made supporting labor unions a cornerstone of her public career. Yet the vineyards and hotels that comprise her $35 million fortune have one thing in common: they don't use union labor I have another section I like to call, “Workers of the World Unite Somewhere Else.”
"This is where we find Nancy Pelosi—Democrat leader in the House, the best friend of labor unions you can imagine. She says that labor unions are vital to negotiating good wages and working conditions. She won the Cesar Chavez award from the United Farmworkers Union in 2003. Remember that, the United Farmworkers Union.
"She is the top recipient of PAC contributions from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union.
"What’s interesting about that is, there were several strikes a few years ago in San Francisco, where she came down strongly on the side of the hotel employees and restaurant employees union and campaigned aggressively for them against other hotels. Of course she is the most reliable vote in Congress for organized labor.
"What’s interesting about Nancy Pelosi is that she and her husband not only are very influential in the Democrat Party, they’re very wealthy. With Nancy Pelosi, her commitment to organized labor essentially ends when it comes to her own businesses.
"Nancy Pelosi and her husband own a Napa Valley vineyard that’s worth about $25 million. They grow very expensive grapes for very expensive wines, and they don’t use members of the United Farm Workers to pick their grapes. This winner of the Cesar Chavez award hires only hire non-union contractors.
"There are plenty of union contractors in Napa Valley and there are other wineries that use them, its’ just that the Pelosis don’t have happen to among them. They also sell their grapes to non-union wineries.
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"But it gets even worse than that. Nancy Pelosi and her husband also own a chain of restaurants and a hotel in Napa Valley, California. Despite her public commitment to the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, you better not join that union and work for the Pelosis, because you will end up getting fired.
"For example, they are partners in a hotel with 250 employees, which is strictly non-union. They are among the very few owners of Piati, a chain of Italian restaurants with 900 employees. Again, if you try to join the union when you work for the Pelosis in their restaurant, you will be fired.
"One other issue for Nancy Pelosi. I hate to pick on her, but it’s just so inviting. As they say in the military, it’s a target-rich environment. With Nancy Pelosi, another big issue is the environment.
"She always makes statements that, with us, the environment is not an issue, it’s an ethic, it’s a value. Which is a nice way of saying, “I love the environment, but not when it comes to our own businesses.”
"A lot of people don’t realize that, in 1996, Nancy Pelosi and her husband and fewer than 10 other partners wanted to build a golf course and country club outside of San Jose, California, called the CordeValle Country Club.
"In order to get approval to build on these 275 acres, they had to comply with some very stringent county environmental regulations. Now the California tiger salamander and the Western pond turtle are apparently endangered species and they’re very, very common on these 275 acres that the Pelosis wanted to develop.
So the agreement they struck with local regulators was, we’ll build the golf course, we’ll set up some holding ponds and we’ll create a natural habitat to make sure that these environmental endangered species survive.
Of course, they built the golf course. It opened in 2000. If you want to join, the membership is $250,000. But they never followed the environmental regulations.
"The ponds were never built for these endangered species. For seven years, they also failed to file any of the environmental reports required by the California Fish and Wildlife Commission.
"A 2004 County Environmental Compliance Report found all kinds of environmental problems on the Pelosis’ golf course.
Remember with Nancy Pelosi, her commitment to the environment is not just an issue, it’s an ethic and a value.
"What does that actually mean in practical terms? Did they turn around and build this habitat and comply? No, they solved the problem the old-fashioned way: they hired lobbyists and they got the environmental regulations changed.
"So if you go to the CordeValle Country Club today and play golf, it’s a wonderful course, but there will be no holding ponds. There will be no endangered species and the Pelosis seem to be quite happy with that."
Anyone really surprised?
Outstanding article. Shows the absolute doublespeak of many 'Rats (including Pelosi). Thanks for posting. Words and deeds BUMP!
But she's a doting grammy, and she's really organized!!
She's so typical of the Democrat Party.
The Washington ComPost just did a story on Rahm Emmanuel working himself to exhaustion. The story said he made his bones in the Clinton admin in 1993 when he singlehandedly got NAFTA and GATT through Congress. He represents the Lakefront Liberals on Chricago's north side, campaigning as a union champion, natch.
Amazing how poor our newspapers are.
Look, the unions don't care about what she does in her own backyard, just as long as she votes in favor of bills that unions want.
It's like the nuts at NOW and President Clinton. You didn't hear them criticizing him during the Lewinsky meltdown.
Democrats get away with murder because they have lower standards.
Tom Foley, while a creep, at least could be shamed, and he quit the House. The Dems don't have to worry about such things. Look at old Gerry Studds. Despicable behavior, but he had the nerve to call his censure an invasion of his personal privacy, and then get re-elected six times.
Ugh.
Another bona fide member of the hypocrite's club.
Does Pelosi's state have a "tax me more fund"?
How much have democrat politicians paid into the "tax me more fund"?
Poor? I believe the word you were actually looking for was "partisan". :-)
Republican Base Starting to Return:
1. Think National Rep. starting to see poll numbers showing life in party voting base.
2. Conservative Rep. base WILL vote holding their noses one more time & this may be the LAST time they do it wihtout signifcant Rep.Party policy/leadership changes.
3. The thought of national security & the economy coupled with a possiblity of NANCY "STRETCH" PELOSI as Speaker of the House is too scary to imagine
Mason Dixon
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No, not surprised.
One of Pelosi's recurring themes lately has been about so-called Republican culture of corruption.
Why has no Republican reminded the media that Pelosi was fined for campaign finance violations a few years ago and forced to pay a fine and return several hundreds of thousands in campaign donations?
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