Newt Gingrich Praised SEIU Head Andy Stern's Forward-Looking Vision

Newt Gingrich's own book "Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works" | Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich Praised SEIU Head Andy Stern's Forward-Looking Vision

In his book "Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works," Gingrich praises the SEIU head, who remains a close adviser of the President Obama. Pitching the need for conservatives to respect organized labor, while simultaneously pushing back against some of Labor's more cherished legislative goals, he wrote the following:

Conservatives cannot cheer unions overseas and then be blindly anti-union here at home. There are legitimate historic reasons for workers to organize together, and there is a strong need for a healthy, competitive, union, movement that helps improve the lives of its members and the competitiveness of our country.

Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition. Sadly, he is a distinct minority among union leaders.

[marstegreg]

I read several pages before and after this quote. I was taken aback at first. After reading the additional text, it becomes clear that he is not praising Andy Stern. He is merely pointing out that Stern “understands” the problems the unions are facing while other union leaders are oblivious. He does not condone anything or praise anyone. He just recognizes that Stern is more aware of the problems facing the unions.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not to worry.

Gingrich is due to self-immolate anytime now.

He can't help himself.

[maryz]

Is there more to the quote than that? What's the drift of the entire chapter? After all, the book came out in 2007, so was probably written in 2006. It was published by Regnery -- if that's the tone of the book, hard to see why they would have accepted it or why their editors wouldn't have done something.

One sentence pulled out of context seems a frail reed to lean on!

[Nervous Tick]

Hey, thanks for posting that book link within your Gingrich hatchet job!

Because now reasonable people with a brain who want to go beyond Glenn Beck sound bites and really understand the candidate can scroll UP in that e-book and see the CONTEXT of Gingrich’s quote, which is a withering attack on out-of-control unions!

In fact, the title of the section under which Beck’s out-of-context quote appears is: “An Unreformed Left Dominated By Unreformed Unions: A Codependency Of The World That Fails”.

Sounds like Newt has that about right!

Great job! Even if unwittingly so.

[ecomcon]

Did you bother reading any of the following paragraphs? Scathing indictment of GOVERNMENT WORKERS UNIONS.

Straw man arguments and GBTV cut and paste quotes without context.

Are we conservatives wanting to outlaw private sector labor unions? Of course not.

[Hoodat]

This and his praise of FDR.

And he was fond of Woodrow Wilson as well.

Gingrich claims to be a Wilsonian

[Michael.SF.]

Did you take the five minutes to read the rest of the section that you linked to?

It is clear in reading it that he sees big dangers in Unionization and is opposed to such things as "Card Check"

[Rational Thought]

Contrary to the MSM talk, this isn’t just a two person race. It’s still possible that another candidate will end up winning the nomination.

As posted here yesterday;

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2012_2008_gop_presidential_race_4_years_ago.html

[umgud]

I will support Newt over Romney, but don’t ask me to be happy about it. I’m still hoping somebody beside Ron Paul surges or an acceptable outsider jumps in.

[Hoodat]

The left attacks those who they fear.

The left has been attacking Glen Beck pretty severely for quite some time. Now we see why.

[mmichaels1970]

More from the source:

"As the unions have become less and less competitive in seeking members, and as unionized companies have become less and less able to flourish in a free market, their leaders have turned to an overtly political strategy of seeking and holding on to power in the narrowest sense. For union membership, those they can't persuade to join, they intend to coerce. For industries that supply union jobs but that can't deliver goods and services competitively, they seek to make monopolies without competition. What they can't earn in the marketplace they intend to win through political power and government control."

Agreed.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Are these the only alternatives in this primary???

We still have Bachmann. She is not backing down one bit right now.

OTOH, issues with unions:

1) Government Unions should be outlawed completely. 2) No union should be able to make it contractually impossible to fire an employee.

Other than that, if unions were gone entirely, would businesses begin to disrespect their employees again?

And I am not sure where he is getting the cheering for unions overseas stuff.

[Lou Budvis]

Let’s see the quote in context. Karl Marx had an insight into the challenges of the Industrial Revolution, that doesn’t mean that his answers were right.

[OKSooner]

Yes, and a whiter shade of pale at that.

[mmichaels1970]

More from the source:

"For the government employee, the government-financed unions, and the trial lawyers, however, political power leading to legislative power is a matter of life and death. Thus over the last three decades there has been a steady growth of union and trial lawyer investment in politics and politicians. Ironically, the number of Americans who voluntarily join a union has been shrinking as union political power has been growing."

Agreed.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Let’s see the quote in context.

Click on the link in the original post, and you can: it takes you to a scrollable e-book.

You will be pleasantly surprised. :-)

[Grunthor]

“Contrary to the MSM talk, this isn’t just a two person race.”

According to every poll I’ve seen; it is. The closest candidate to Newt and Romney is insane.

We’re f’d.

[marstegreg]

Beck just said to google Newt Gingrich and cass Sunstein here’s the first one I got:

October 02, 2011

WHY GINGRICH TARGETS OBAMA’S CZARS

By Sharon Sebastian - Website: www.DarwinsRacists.com

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich vows that his first action, were he elected president, would be to sign executive orders eliminating Barack Obama’s vast cadre of unelected Czars. With the stroke of a pen, Gingrich would strike down Obama’s politburo consisting of 39 power-laden czars that make up the president’s shadow-government that threatens America’s prosperity, freedoms and sovereignty. Gingrich’s fixation on Obama’s Czars reveals the depth of understanding of the danger they pose to America and the personal freedoms of Americans. A review of Obama’s vast array of Czars and advisers reveals a handpicked collection of self-admitted Socialists, Marxists, Environmentalists and Globalists.

(I don’t know what to think anymore.)

[Rockiette]

;)

[maine-iac7]

Notice Cain hasn’t endorsed anyone yet.

keep the volume on your news channel turned up today - jus' saying