Thursday, December 13, 2012

Eyes on Michigan: A Thorn in the Tea Party's Craw!

Remember all of the discontent surrounding the mean and brash attempts to take away workers’ rights by Ohio Governor Kasich, Wisconsin Governor Walker and their Tea Partied Republican legislators? Well, it’s happening again!


Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and his lame duck Tea Partied Republican legislators swiftly passed a fraudulent bill to “ban union workers in a bargaining unit to pay for the cost of representation".


The truth of the matter is Michigan workers are not forced to be members of or to pay anything to a union.  If workers choose to be covered for collective bargaining purposes, they pay for that representation.  If workers do not choose to contribute to any other form of union representation either political or by charitable contributions to organizations such as the Michigan Mental Health Association, they get a refund based on an annual independent CPA firm audit.


The weirdest part about the whole situation is that every time  Tea Partied Republican governors and state legislators start attacking workers, billionaire, oil speculating, Tea Party campaign donors Charles and David Koch backed by propaganda machines such as the American Exchange Council and FOXifiers are, always, tugging  the puppet strings behind the scenes.

The question is why? 

The answer is to suppress the right to vote!

Unions play a key role in registering and getting out the vote of the 47%. Koch and Company don’t like that. The Koch and Company voter suppression scheme began in 2009 when they manipulated the pimp and prostitute scam to  pressure Tea Partied Congressional representatives to defund ACORN under the manufactured charge of voter fraud.  

The real reason for Koch and Company’s war against ACORN was that ACORN was a non-profit organization extremely effective in registering economically disadvantaged citizens to vote!  The collateral damage caused by Koch and Company’s pimp and prostitute scam was ending ACORN’s financial contributions toward saving thousands of homes for Katrina victims; saving thousands of Americans from home foreclosures and predatory lenders, and coming to the rescue of thousands of public schools.

Koch and Company, also, used their campaign donor powers to manipulate Tea Partied Republican governors, state legislators, state election officials and state attorney general’s to create and pass fraudulent voter suppression photo ID laws; underwrite malicious and distorted 2012 campaign ads and robo calls, and to fund Tea Partied propaganda think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. 

The bottom line is workers who choose to be represented by a union are a thorn in Koch and Company's Tea Partied voter suppression craw!


Help support Michigan workers at…

Petition Background. A group of right-wing politicians in Lansing want to push through a harmful "right to work" bill inMichigan.



Sources:
After insisting all last year that an anti-labor “right-to-work” law was not on his agenda, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has changed his mind. This ...

Why did Gov. Rick Snyder buckles on an anti-union law? Just look at his big-money donors

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If O'Keefe, and Breitbart, who still employs him, were that willing to out-and-out lie about the ACORN scam, ... dressed as caricatures of a pimp and prostitute, ...http://mediamatters.org/research/201002170008 










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