Reply With QuotePurple Shirt Army Banditos? or is that just the SEIU?
Big labor mobilizing Tea Party alternative
Bensalem, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- It sounds like a political classified ad.
"Wanted: unemployed voters." That's the message from one of the nation's biggest labor unions, the AFL-CIO.
Between now and Election Day, the union's community outreach organization known as Working America will be recruiting jobless Americans for a new political movement.
The idea? To match the energy of the conservative Tea Party movement. The goal? To keep Democrats in power in Washington.
"We want to give people a choice," said Kim McMurry, a union organizer with Working America.
This week, McMurry met with a group of unemployed workers inside the home of Angela Oravsky, an unemployed mother who says she is burning through her daughter's college savings money just to pay the rent.
"I don't care if I have to scream from the rooftops, knock on doors. We have to come together as unemployed people," she said.
Another unemployed mother, Liz Lassiter, wiped away tears as she described how she had to live in her car during last year's brutal winter after losing her home.
"I'm looking everywhere, I mean, you know, McDonalds, Wawa, anywhere," she said.
The meeting was both cathartic and strategic.
Also on the agenda was a discussion on how to rally other jobless friends, relatives and neighbors to get behind Democratic candidates.
Union organizers with Working America said the gathering is one of countless meetings across the country over the next month.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/...egy/index.html
Purple Shirt Army Banditos? or is that just the SEIU?
They gonna teach us how to vote for dead people? I'm not interested unless I can vote for at least ten dead people. So what exactly are these people hoping for anyway? That Zero will ride in on his white stallion carrying sacks of money liberated from the pockets of productive members of society?
The SEIU is not affiliated with the AFL-CIO.Originally Posted by Linedoggie
Live in your car, eat McDonalds or maybe even starve...scream from the rooftops and hold your breath until you turn f*cking blue. Keep waiting for that handout you lazy shrew...America has no use for you.
The Coffee Party?
...more like the PMS party
If it were not for the unions, Ronald Reagan wouldn't have been elected.
The wrongs always make your wrong right, right Ordie?
What do you mean?
Whenever someone on the left is doing something that we on the right perceive as wrong, you always point to someone on the right as doing something similar as justification. 'Why did you poke my sister in the eye Ordie??? Because your brother did it too!!! Naner Naner Naner...it gets old after a while.
Reagan was elected because the public was fed up with the peanut farmer who was attacked by Rabbits
Work on it a little bit, you've almost got a catchy jingle going there.
Carter was the unions? Huh? No, America was tired of the lame a$$ peanut farmer.
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Last edited by C.Puffs; 10-01-2010 at 07:27 PM. Reason: ARGH!!!! Double post.
Reagan, a former union leader, knew the power of a union endorsement and capitalize its money and votes.
No other Republican canidate was able to do that.
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