You Will Respect My Absolute Moral Authority!
Posted on 06/19/2009 10:40:49 AM PDT by radar101
The California Republican Party seemed to hit political paydirt in a YouTube ad that pilloried the Service Employees International Union for "bullying state leaders in the budget process."
The ad featured footage of an angry woman telling lawmakers that union members would work to defeat lawmakers who didn't vote their way.
It turns out that the woman portrayed as an SEIU union leader in the commercial is a home health care worker from Fresno named Lisa Brown, who works for the state by caring for her son who has Down syndrome.
Now Brown is calling on Republicans to pull the ad and "apologize for its content."
"I am the mother and care provider for a sweet young man with developmental disabilities who doesn't comprehend the implications of budget cuts on the table in Sacramento," Brown said a letter to the state Republican Party.
Brown, who is an SEIU member but not a union official, said: "Your attempt to label me a 'union bully' would be hilarious if it weren't so dangerous to people that I love.'"
The GOP ran the video to counter a $1 million SEIU advertising blitz featuring a television commercial that urges lawmakers to consider taxes on oil extraction, cigarettes and alcohol to avoid social services cuts.
In the selected clip in the GOP ad, Brown hardly treads easily on lawmakers:
"We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory," she says angrily at a legislative budget hearing. "And come November, if you don't back our program, we'll help to get you out of office."
Brown said in her letter that she appeared at the hearing "to speak from my heart and in my own words" on behalf of services for the disabled.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
I heard the ad, it is great, to bad they did not run in March.
Should all of society be burden due to this women and her son?
Doesn’t this fit that rat template of using “victims” to make outrageous statements so that you can’t contradict them without being painted as heartless?
Hey, honey ... if you wuz the “angry woman telling lawmakers that union members would work to defeat lawmakers who didn’t vote their way” then I’d say a tiny revision is needed but the ad still is accurate.
What the hell??? The state pays her to be this kid's mother??? No friggin' wonder the state is collapsing.
“I am the mother and care provider for a sweet young man with developmental disabilities who doesn’t comprehend the implications of budget cuts on the table in Sacramento,” Brown said”
The son did not say anything. She issued a threat from the union to politicians - one has nothing to do with the other.
She gets paid to take care of her own son?
The state is paying this woman as an employee to take care of her own son...
Isn’t this the sort of thing parents should be willing to do for free?
I wonder how much they'd pay me to take care of myself? I can be challenge at times.
Wow! A real life moocher like right out of Atlas Shrugged.
You can’t make this stuff up. Getting hired by the govt to care for her own son and then using this position to threaten lawmakers. I believe that govt employees should not be allowed to vote any longer. By definition it’s a conflict of interest.
That's the scam. And, as a home health provider, she becomes a member of the union. That's the scam too.
SEIU currently makes about 5M a month from union dues from people involved in the scam.
Let's just say it's a clever way for CA rats to funnel big time bucks to their union friends.
This needs to end, obviously.
So she works for the state by being a mom?? Um..okay.
You Will Respect My Absolute Moral Authority!
One of our family members had Downs, and other family members cared for her all her life. They weren't paid by the state to be her caregivers. Plus, there are plenty of places where adults with Downs go to work or learn some independence. I do believe people with Downs are entitled to receive social security, though.
So, I wonder if this woman found a way through the system to collect both social security for her son AND be paid as his caregiver.
IMHO, leave the political ad as is.
Actually, no one AT ALL should be INVOLUNTARILY burdened by another person’s “need”.
NONE AT ALL.
Now, as to whether you have a personal, God-given duty to help the poor as you can, that’s between you and Him.
2 Corinthians 9:7 (New International Version)
7Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
It turns out that the woman portrayed as an SEIU union leader in the commercial is a home health care worker from Fresno named Lisa Brown, who works for the state by caring for her son who has Down syndrome.
The leftists have found that there is power in victimhood.
They play on the consciences of people and use that guilt to abuse and oppress them.
“Guilty”... Ann Coulter
So did we! This woman is NUTS to think the state 'SHOULD' PAY HER to take care of her own son!!!
What????? Does that mean homeschooling parents can be paid to teach their kids?
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