from Peter Schweizer: DO AS I SAY (now a YouTube presentation on Nancy Pelosi's union hypocrisy)

front page mag ^ | 4-2006 | Peter Schweizer

[doug from upland]

WATCH ON YOUTUBE AND SEND EVERYWHERE...let's cause her some grief

FROM SCHWEIZER'S ARTICLE:

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. They recently held investments in two other wine businesses that were also strictly non-union.

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.

[big'ol_freeper]

Message says the video is not available.

[chimera]

These are 'Rats were are talking about. Two things to remember about 'Rats. First, when it comes to hypocrisy, finding that among 'Rats is like finding that the sun comes up in the morning. Second, follow the money. With 'Rats, it is all about money. Power follows from that.

[doug from upland]

I watched it a minute ago. This has happened before. It should come back soon.

[doug from upland]

It seems to be back again. Maybe some union thugs had to review it.

[big'ol_freeper]

Ok..got it..great job!!

[doug from upland]

Please pass it on. All blue dog Dems need to see this before they vote on the speaker.

[sgtbono2002]

These Unions dont send money to where it will help them. They send money where the Democrats tell them to send it.
They vote the way the democrats tell them to vote.
I spoke to a major democrat player today about the election and he was gloating. I told him if the flagpole we were standing under had run on the democrats ticket he would have voted for it, and that any Marylander who voted against Ehrlich who got us out of a 3 Billion dollar deficit, and voted for O'Malley who couldnt even run a Baltimore school system he was a dumb as that flagpole.

I wasnt bothered by him rest of the day

[PatrickF4]

What should we expect from liberals, er I mean progressives, or whatever they are calling themselves these days? Demagogue about unions, ethics, civility, what a joke.

[doug from upland]

Providing hookers to union bosses goes a long way to getting them to cut some slack.

[doug from upland]

A reporter from the Napa Valley returned my call today and left me a message. I was trying to get some background about the vineyard and thought the local paper could help. this guy wanted to do a story about the vineyard. They refuse to talk about anything. What do you think are the chances that Nancy has hired illegal aliens to pick grapes?

[doug from upland]

from THE AMERICAN THINKER

Pelosi's illegal alien employees


Remember Linda Chavez? She had to withdraw from consideration for a cabinet post because one of her employees was an illegal alien. So how about Nancy Pelosi, who would be third in line for succession if she becomes Majority Leader?

Investors Business Daily brings us the following information about her family-owned vineyard.

As Peter Schweizer notes in his best-selling expose of liberal hypocrisy, “Do As I Say (Not As I Do),” part of the fortune of this defender of the working man is a Napa Valley vineyard worth $25 million that she owns with her husband. The vineyard produces expensive grapes for high-end wines. Napa grapes bring up to $4,000 a ton compared with $300 a ton for, say, San Joaquin grapes.

But Pelosi, winner of the 2003 Cesar Chavez award from the United Farm Workers, hires only nonunion workers and sells these grapes to nonunion wineries. [....]

Which makes Pelosi’s steadfast opposition to any attempts to enhance border security and stem the flow of illegal immigration into the U.S. all the more interesting since she seems to be among those rich employers who financially benefit from a steady supply of cheap foreign labor. [....]

Nor has Pelosi been a fan of employer sanctions against the hiring of illegal aliens. In 2003, she accused immigration officers of conducting “terrorizing raids” on Wal-Mart stores that led to the arrest of more than 300 illegal aliens.

Loraine Stewart, a farmworker advocate with Napa Valley Community Housing, in a 2004 San Francisco Chronicle article estimated that half of the migrant labor force in the valley consisted of undocumented workers, without whom “not one bottle of wine would get made here.”

Read the whole thing to get a picture of the actual practices of this wealthy hypocritical liberal. Aside from IBD, none of the major press seems the least bit interested in this scandal.

Hat tip: Jack Kemp

Thomas Lifson 11 2 06

[SShultz460]

Exactly why we needed pay check protection. I'm forced to join a union where I work, and my dues go to the dims which pisses me off to no end

[newzjunkey]

BTTT. Nice work DFU.

[quantim]

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.

Don't care that they don't use unions either, the unionists can bite Satan for all I care.

However, if it is possible to trace this grape juice to a specific label beyond any reasonable doubt a boycott is in order, research has begun.

Growers sell to many vintners, so the wine may not really be the point - it may be that she has illegals doing the work.

Seems to me, it would only take ONE illegal worker in Nancy's Nest to bring her down as speaker.

Click to be +/- on this low volume wine ping list.

Oenology news ping.

[TheLion]

Bttt!

[doug from upland]

Have you considered taking a "religious exemption" and having your dues go to a charity?

[doug from upland]

I also don't care if they don't use union. I'm just hoping we can catch Nancy hiring illegals and cause her grief.

[6SJ7]

I also don't care if they don't use union. I'm just hoping we can catch Nancy hiring illegals and cause her grief.

I'm sure 60 Minutes will be all over this story. < / sarc >

[doug from upland]

How about the NATIONAL ENQUIRER?