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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I live in Ohio,hope these turds don’t show up for a conversation.I’ll have the German Shepherds escort them back to their car.
Coming to Colorado, Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. They’ll try to pull every trick in the book.
Guess they gave the idea of dumping a second thought and changed their mind.
I see eight swing states: New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, Colorado and Nevada. And I see five battleground states: North Carolina, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota.
They might do more harm then good.
I live in Colorado and I kind of hope they do show up....could be a fun conversation. Of course I live in an extremely conservative neighborhood in one of the most conservative counties in the state, so I doubt they will bother.
Too many people are ‘aware’ of these people.
They don’t help the better unions at all.
Not all union members are ‘thugs’ or ‘democRATS’ but
all thugs ‘could be’ a ‘union member’ and ‘democRAT’.
Another example of the Dims conceding NC.
Make sure your dogs are up to date on their rabies shots. You wouldn’t want them to get sick if they happen to bite one of the union idiots.
Where is the GOP response to this boots-on-the-ground field attack? I suspect there is none.
I don't buy the 85 million figure BTW. Unions have hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions in their "stash". Ready at the drop of a hat to defeat anyone foolish enough to cross them.
There is a place I work in STL as a contractor and the regular employees just hate us. My first day there, I remember thinking I would fire every single one of these insubordinate a**holes. Months later I found out why; they are all SEIU..
Will we hear an ear splitting scream about this in a similar vein to the hysteria about Karl Rove’s group and the Koch Bros.?
To win, it will take cubic dollars. If they spend 85 mil, we gotta spend 125 mil AND have more boots on the ground. We gotta do the same thing to these damn unions as RR did to the Soviet Union, break em financially.
We shall see if the conservatives can do the walk.
My dogs have never bitten anyone,yet.Their threat display is enough to get anyone moving.
Probably not.
PS CAIRO (Reuters) - Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years until overthrown by a revolution in the “Arab Spring” last year, was declared clinically dead by his doctors on Tuesday, the state news agency MENA said in a report confirmed by a hospital source.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/06/19/Egyptian-ex-president-Mubarak-clinically-dead—sources
$85 million! Yikes! The communists are getting desperate! Spend that money you Neanderthals!
The Service Employees International Union=Communist Party USA!
Sheldon Adelson one person is putting up over 100 Million to get us rid of Obama.
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