Posted on 06/19/2012 6:20:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
June 19, 2012 SEIU To Focus On 8 Battleground States
By Melanie Trottman
The Service Employees International Union said it will spend a similar amount of money to re-elect President Barack Obama as it did in 2008, but will reach out to three times as many potential voters this year with a focus on eight battleground states.
The union spent about $85 million in 2008 and “this year will look similar,” said political director Brandon Davis.
“But that’s not where our advantage is. Our advantage quite frankly is on the ground,” Mr. Davis told reporters on a conference call Tuesday afternoon.
The union plans to make 13 million phone calls, knock on more than three million doors and hold more than one million conversations with potential voters in battleground states including Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. That’s fewer states than the 14 it targeted in 2008, underscoring its strategy to deepen and expand its reach in key locations.
The union hopes to rely on 100,000 volunteers and 750 full-time campaign workers in battleground states. It plans to expand its reach in part by contacting more non-union members and sharpening its focus on registering Latinos and African-Americans, said SEIU officials.
Organized labor is facing the prospect of weakening political power and declining membership as state lawmakers cut benefits and bargaining rights of public-sector union workers. Still, unions remain one of the Democratic party’s most loyal supporters, using their funding and network of members to generate votes.
“We will have the final word when we speak up with our votes,” said Eliseo Medina, SEIU’s international secretary treasurer.
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This is cause for concern but not alarm. The same people did this in Wisconsin and we all know how that turned out.
And here I thought SEIU focused on representing their members on issues of fair pay and safety.
Didn’t realize self preservation via political activism benefited their members.
These pussies wouldn’t show their faces in say..Midland or Odessa Texas.
They wouldn’t get out alive.
We confronted these fat SEIU boys when they tried to crash a local tea party meeting, and they ran into a building, locked themselves inside and cried for the cops to rescue them. There’s not much “there” there.
I have friends here in CO that are registered independents. In 2008 they were visited by the goon squad six times at their door.
Visits by team McCain Palin: zero.
So they voted for......0.
I’d be willing to go help out in a swing state for a week or two hopefully not just making phone calls for 8 hours.
Labor and the liberal groups just pissed away 20 million in Wisconsin. We smoked them , it can be done.
Need to either cut federal funding to local governments or push them to spend more while avoiding activities (purchases, business, etc.) that generate revenues (default and government shutdowns: the other solution). IMO, the second solution will be necessary, because the political/regulator class is bipartisan and largely local.
COME ON LIBERALS!!!!
KEEP PISSING AWAY YOUR MONEY IN WISCONSIN!!!!
WE WILL HAVE VOTER ID FOR THE NOVEMBER ELECTION!!!!! YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO SO EASILY CHEAT YOU M-Fers.
Glad those union flunkies don’t need that $85 million in their pensions.
Pray for America
This is great news! They will drain their own treasuries come up short lose and be empty shells next January when the long hard fight to take America really gets going.
Spend it all you skunks, spend it all!
Futile for organized labor is facing weakening political power and declining membership.
Obama has screwed up to much to long.
Capone weeps.
If your dogs get the chance to teach the thugs some manners, it would be nice if you could capture it on video. That would be great entertainment.
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