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GOP candidate can't take the heat…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/politics/greg-gianforte-montana-republican-body-slams-reporter.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article
A stinging rebuke this morning from the Billings Gazette
CBS 4 had a piece on this too.
All I can say is Gianforte stinks! Stay upwind my friends.
I was particularly amused by the fact that Gianforte had a last minute funding request promising his donors to "double your impact."
The delicious irony to me is that the eyewitness account that backed the Guardian reporter's complaint came from none other than a Fox News TV crew.
Their account blew the campaign statement out of the water.
With any luck, it'll help the GOTV in the university towns of Missoula and Bozeman and put Quist over the top.
"double your impact………" Hitting a reporter with both your right and your left.
Sumbitch is now over 50%.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/05/24/california-farmworker-shortage/
This is a win win, bigly! Now the greedy agricultural business corporations will have to pay a real working wage to get workers into the fields. With increasing wages those so worried about health care can afford to pay for it themselves. Maybe even Melissa, of ProgressNow fame will move to CA for $22 per hour. WIN WIN!
Interesting read. Sounds like the farmers want to blame the minimum wage, but then you see this:
See no terrorist.
Hear no terrorist.
Speak no terrorist.
The monkeys at ColoradoPols are running the show.
Everybody sees the terrorist. Trump leaked his name, to the Chagrin of the UK.
You have figured out the grand conspiracy. Well done.
Beware of the Monkey mafia running the Pols.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132748-monkey-mafia-steal-your-stuff-then-sell-it-back-for-a-cracker/
Really? When your avocados are $15 each and lettuce is $10 a head, you'll be calling it a WIN WIN then? Amirite?
So you don't want workers to have a living wage? Someone has to pay, it's the way economics works.
How can you be such a nitwit? Of, course somebody will pay. You will. All consumers will. Do you think the corporate CEO is going to cut dividends to shareholders? Do you think the board will accept cutting its profit margin? No, of course not…they will raise the price..and you will wind up paying much more for your food. It is the price of purity.
It works the same way with healthcare…someone has to cover that 35% margin enjoyed by Big Insurance..that's your job.
The question remains, will you pay for avocados and lettuce so farm workers will have a living wage? Or will you stop buying them.
It's a false choice. Yes, the true cost of producing food is much higher than what we pay, when all environmental and health costs are factored in. For the most part, it isn't consumers who pay, either. Migrant workers could get paid and treated better with only modest increases in prices. It's why we need regulations – EPA and worker's comp and OSHA. It's why Trump is freaking WRONG.
Farmworkers who get sprayed with pesticides or workers whose lungs get damaged so you can have yellow-tinted butter-flavored popcorn absorb those costs, and for the most part you never know.
I'm all about the cost savings on the fruits and veggies. There was a food co-op, Bountiful Baskets, which met every other week here. Participants got a bushel of fresh veggies, not necessarily organic, but pretty great. Now, BB is still seeking local vendors in Colorado, since "buying local" is the next best thing to buying organic as far as impact on the planet.
We have a relatively short growing season here on the high plains so the vendor challenges are real.
Yet there are ways to eat health – consciously and still advocate for higher wages and better conditions for farmworkers. Not all are $22/hr – that appears from the article to be a specialized wine-maker skill.
I'm sure Bountiful Baskets is a worthwhile charity but your response does not address the question. If the demand for labor exceed the supply the producer can automate or compete for labor with higher wages, benefits. The cost of avocados and lettuce will increase. If the price of avocados and lettuce is inelastic, consumers will purchase something else. If the price of avocados and lettuce is elastic, consumers will continue to purchase avocados and lettuce. It makes a difference for the farm workers. So your guacamole and taco salad determines if the worker will get a living wage.
I find it interesting that as a hard core progressive you are interested in migrant workers getting a modest increase, not quite an endorsement for a living wage.
You're not really good at that mind-reading thing. I think both wages and working conditions need to be livable, with modest decreases in profits. This can be accomplished with meaningful health, safety, and working conditions laws and regulations. Just what your guy Trump wants to get rid of.
Child labor was considered essential to industry profits…until it was outlawed. That happened because of union organizing.
Some processes can be automated, decreasing need for workers while maintaining profits; some cannot. It's not possible to generalize what should or can happen in every industry.
By the way, consumer co-ops are not charities.
Neither are farmer, employee, or any other kind of co-op. It’s a way to share costs and profits. It works on a small scale.
My point in bringing up BB co-op is to show that there are ways to hold costs down on food, while simultaneously polluting less (local vendors = less carbon burned in transport). It’s possible to have real win-wins – it takes planning, intention, cooperation, and good government.
PP, I believe MJ has made it clear you THAT I'm the only one alowed to read her mind…
What's that, Dear Heart?
But, but, I don't have a horse…
You're not good at mind reading, either, but at least you can spell, and your intent is benevolent. Your horse may proceed unmolested.
. . . because the horse has a much better record of correctly judging trollish character!?!
Here's a suggestion to the RepublicanTs: Be more like Reagan. That is, leave Medicaid alone and go for your tax cuts for the wealthy and increases in defense spending. I suspect a projected 5% GDP growth rate will cover any deficits.
Winning!
If nothing else has become clear over the last month or two, it's how very safe it is to have industrial petroleum production in close proximity to residential areas.
3 injured in oil tank explosion in Mead: 'It was like 2 bombs going off'
Edit: looks like one person died in addition to the three injured
Pockets of flammable methane gas found near Firestone house explosion that killed 2
And they want to put 24 freaking wells right next to a K-8 school, Bella Romero Academy, in Greeley. #Nobellawells
Cause who cares if poor kids get their lungs and brains, and now possibly bodies, damaged by methane emissions?
If a Muslim endangered these kids, AC, Pompous Pyrus, and Moderatuss would be all up in arms. But it's an oil and gas company, so it's all copacetic.
Raging thug Gianforte is ahead by 3 points in Montana, with 41% of the precincts reporting. Their Sec of State has been deluged with calls from voters who'd like a redo of their mailed-in ballot. No can do, unfortunately.
The DNC is doing a great job. Can't wait until 2018.
During an interview with DNC Chairman Tom Perez on Thursday’s edition of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” host Chuck Todd asked Perez why he didn’t take the Montana special election for the US House “seriously” sooner, and told Perez “you didn’t put your money where your mouth is.”
Todd said, “[Y]ou caught a break here at the end. … But the question is whether the Democrats were there in time to take advantage. I know it’s late here. But you look at the spending advantage. The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has outspent the Democrats 3 to 1. The Republican PACs, including one led by Speaker Ryan, has outspent the Democratic PACs in this race 16 to 1. Your own organization would not tell us how much money you’ve spent, but the RNC has spent almost a million dollars. The fact of the matter is, why didn’t you guys take this race seriously earlier? You did — you have lately, but you — the money, you didn’t put your money where your mouth is.”
Can't argue with that. DNC still doesn't trust its grassroots folks.
And it was hard to argue that putting an inexperienced folk singer into Congress would be better than an experienced guy.
Sort of like electing as President a blowhard real-estate magnate who relies on manipulating debt and blowing off his creditors. Could never happen, right?
MJ:
Kind of like nominating a prison guard or a high school band leader in CD-4?
Gianforte holds back on a first class ass whipping of a rude snowflake reporter by breaking his glasses. Montana votes for a manly man who sets boundaries for his personal space.
May I just say with all due disrespect: Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Yes you may say that.
MJ: don't get too carried away here. Passionate Prune obviously doesn't understand Montana politics. Dems had a weak candidate. Gianforte failed in his first attempt at elective politics. PP also won't understand how Montana went strongly for Trump last year, but still re-elected a Dem governor.
Asking MJ not to get carried away is like asking the sun not to shine.
Nice sidestep regarding your lack of understanding of Montana politics. I have relatives up there; what's your excuse?
Now if he drove the reporter in his car when he was drunk, drove into a lake, left the guy to drown while he sobered up he would get reelected for the rest of his life, if he were a Dem.
That's your story and you're sticking to it, hey, noodledick? Say, how'd your mom's court hearing come out? I'm with you on that one, btw. Prostitution is a victimless crime and they had no business arresting your mom in the first place.
Andrew loves him some ancient history. Full story goes: "never go riding in a car with (the late) Ted Kennedy; never go hunting with Dick Cheney."