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The headline this week called out Sen. Bennet as a novice. Although accurate, the word novice no doubt brought a chill to the spine of our new Senator.
I must say, this quote hit the nail on the head.
A lose-lose situation? … not so fast Senator Bennet has no position
Stakes remain high, forced union dues flood political coffers and corrupt business contributions flood radical 527
Udall offers lesson, forced union dues to candidate, corrupt business dollars to radical 527 machines
Said best for the second time
So the test is … why don’t you have a position Senator?
Where it stands
When time comes for a vote on “Card Check” we’ll know … either the Senator votes to continue the debate on the assault against American workers and businesses or he votes to stop the bill from advancing within the Senate.
I’m taking all comers on the following office pool — I’m taking $5 Bennet votes FOR cloture and allows Card Check to continue to a full Senate floor vote. To activate the vote just type in your post “$5 Bennet votes NO on Card Check cloture”. I’ll check back to tally the pool at midnight tonite.
Note: If I lose, your $5 gets donated to a 527 for Rep Jared Polis. If I win, you donate the cash to the Cato Institute.
don’t the voters get to decide how to run elections? Through their elected bodies and such? Why do you think that it is somehow more democratic to force workers to decide if they want to unionized based on management’s rules? You’re a fraud and kind of repetitive to boot.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/…
about so-called ‘card check.’ You, after all, are the one that brings it up regularly at every opportunity, and now that I ask a simple set of questions you just switch the subject.
Not sure if that is a sign of sheer incompetence, rampant stupidity, or just complete intellectual dishonesty, but 1/2 point for trying to dodge the question.
I’m taking all comers, just type “$5 Bennet votes NO on Card Check cloture” in your post.
Why won’t you support Card Check as outlined in S.560 – removal of the secret ballot?
By extension of this theory, shouldn’t the Party’s involved in the election get to know your vote casting specifics every spring and fall?
Or better yet, we can have candidates and their committees send out card check ballots.
the reasonable conversation that CT already has in another thread.
Udall, though David seems to think is being wishy washy, is really taking the correct position. Note that there are problems with current bill and try to begin a conversation. He’ll offer amendments or join someone else’s. Bennet ought look to Udall here.
If you have some much faith, join the office pool. Just type “$5 Bennet votes NO on Card Check cloture” to join.
I mean, your usual stone-age rant on this subject always includes some stupidity about how the Union Websites will cause the internets to seize up, stable business to collapse at the sign of the union organizer, and massive holes to open on the streets and swallow all conservative free-market economists who oppose unionization.
Does this have anything to do with the massive concessions the unions have been making with their employers to keep them economically viable? Or the fact that every one of your other predictions that unions will devour and destroy all business in the US has FAILED?
ANSWER THE FREAKIN” QUESTION!
I am offering you a sure fire win … you place $5 Bennet voting NO on Card Check cloture.
You’ll recall I have also offered volunteer at “check’em in” parties.
With the HEAVY USE OF CAPITALIZATION I perceive you are very emotional about the Card Check issue, is this accurate?
You have been silent since you went CAPITAL on Card Check.
Under current law, more than 30% of employees have to sign a card asking for a union and for management to grant them a secret ballot election to form one. So employees already can’t secretly ask for the right to vote in a union. Nothing to lose on that front.
Meanwhile, employers are free to let employees know that they had better not even try to organize and their names better not turn up on any cards. They are free to intimidate and fire those pushing for organization and it’s almost impossible for fired employees to prove that they were fired for that reason. Many have tried and few have succeeded.
EFCA calls for certifying a union if 50% sign cards asking for one which takes away management’s opportunities to intimidate and retaliate. Is there some chance that workers could be intimidated by union advocates? Fellow workers have much less power than management to do that in a meaningful way. And, as noted by Pols, if just 30% of workers demand a secret ballot election as a next step before certification, then that’s what they’ll get. There is a much greater chance of 30% sticking to their guns in the face of peer pressure than on pain of losing their livelihoods, as is the case now. Especially here in the independent minded west.
Workers will lose nothing in terms of privacy or the right to a secret ballot election. They just gain the means of making the decision to have a union or not without fear of losing their jobs.
With all due respect to him and to you, I don’t think he needs the money. Suggest a good cause and I’ll consider your bet.
Lets discuss the other aspects of Card Check ….
Sections 3 and 4: FACILITATING INITIAL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS and STRENGTHENING ENFORCEMENT
I’d like to understand where Secretary Solis is failing to remedy or cure injustices?
Why has the new administrations Labor Department laid down; why do they fail to protect workers, companies and union rights?
Congratulations to the Twittinator! (Pols is being a bit slow about announcing the winner). I’ll get you next time, Red Baron!
And congratulations to RSB, and all the rest of our fellow Pols as well. As I always tell my daughter, you win by having fun. So, with few exceptions, we’re all winners here.
Second, here are my responses to Libertad, from another thread:
http://coloradopols.com/showCo…
http://coloradopols.com/showCo…
If I could I would post an eight paragraph treatise on why you rock too, but I am feeling non-verbose this A.M.
In any case, a hard ‘fought’ race. Thanks Pols and Polsters…
Hard to imagine a more worthy set of ‘opponents’ than SH and RSB. Seriously…
And Steve. You guys are too kind.
the Colorado Democratic Party, and the progressive movement in America, my mind is turning ever more toward the issue of how to convince people to embrace reason and compassion, without every abandoning my primary commitment to developing the implications of reason articulated with compassion. In that spirit, here is a little “speech” I wrote last night for our new HD28 Facebook Group:
If there’s one thing that’s been proven over and over again in our political history, it’s that things the conventional wisdom considers to be certainties rarely are, and that an energized, organized, determined group of people can defy the odds and turn the tide. We have the beginnings of a little movement here in HD28, a core group of determined people fired-up and ready to make a little bit of local history, and a small swathe of Colorado to persuade and inspire in order to do so.
Reason and compassion, carefully cultivated and deeply felt, do not always win the day, but they are powerful forces, powerful enough to turn Bush’s America into Obama’s, and I believe they are powerful enough to create a little miracle here in our district. Let’s turn HD28 a thoughtful shade of blue. And let’s do it by appealing to thoughtful people of good will, and shaming blind ideologues impervious to reason, with the combination of the best ideas applied to the best intentions. Let’s knock on every door, talk to every resident, speak to every gathering and gather all to the sound of our clarion call. Because the notion that government is a tool to be used wisely and affirmatively in the pursuit of human welfare broadly shared, in the cultivation of a commitment to being something more than a collection of individuals indifferent to one another’s needs and aspirations, but rather a community of people who lift each other up and achieve unimagined heights together by doing so, should be the shared ground from which all other conversatons and debates never stray.
We have good will and good ideas on our side, and with them we are going to rally the Democrats among our neighbors, and entice the independents, and even convert more than a few Republicans, because, in the final analysis, people really do want to be governed by good will and good ideas. That’s our message, and it’s one that’s going to spread like fire through dry tinder, because people are longing for something to believe in. And we’re going to give it to them, by convincing them to join us in giving it to ourselves: The power and promise of working together in common cause.
In what has become a regular–nearly weekly–occurrence (at least the ‘incidents’ that actually get reported)
Sentinel-
On a related note, a commissioner on the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission spoke up for the new rules in a guest column in the Sunday GJ Daily Sentinel.
Choice quote:
However, it’s up to the people of Colorado to hold them responsible for that, at the ballot box.
elected representatives repeat discredited myths, spread misinformation and provoke fear?
Why would they ever do anything like that?
Let the positioning begin.
And got a job offer with a national law firm.
Any word on possible replacements? Anyone here on that vacancy committee?