Posted by Tina
The Service Employees International Union has decided that stubborn conservative lawmakers are a big problem in Sacramento. According to Bob Schoonover, president of SEIU Local 721 in Southern California talk radio and the Tea Party are to blame for exerting too much influence on Republican legislators making compromise impossible:
“We’ve lost the art of compromise that allows us to make deals in tough times. The problem is if you are not willing to move your position, that’s not a good way to solve problems.
Mr. Schoonover, a Republican, doesn’t seem to mind that Democrats refuse to budge or make compromises. And he wonders why talk radio and Tea Party complaints just keep rolling in.
Apparently 87,000 SEIU members are registered Republicans in a field of 700,000. Watch for Rhino candidates backed by these SEIU members in conservative areas of the state…they’re about to receive their marching orders in an all out effort to totally disenfranchise conservative voters in California.
get aload of this ramble – this is a union member, mad at Schoonover because he isn’t doing enough!
http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/jhonster1/blog/2011/02/open-letter-bob-schoonover-president-local-721-seiu-los-angeles
Listen to this guy, a private sector SEIU member, complaining about how the SEIU is not doing enough to protect his pension and pay.
The SEIU is like an octopus – how do so many diverse professions find themselves in one union? Because these aren’t really “unions” anymore – they are corporate lobbyists out to protect their own salaries ahead of anybody else. They need members to pay their salaries, so they will say whatever it takes to make their members pay their dues. Schoonover and his SEIU buddies made some pretty outrageous promises, and now their members are calling in their chips.
I just read an article in the BEE
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/09/3687493/union-chief-says-jerry-browns.html#ixzz1On03talA
that quotes Sacramento SEIU boss Dave Kiefer as saying he is worried that if they have to “finance” a special election for the tax extensions in September, they won’t have enough money for the 2012 legislative elections. He says they should forget letting the voters decide – because WE WILL SAY NO! He wants to rig the legislative elections, and then get the RHINOS to vote in the tax extensions.
We got to be on these people Tina, thank you!
Thanks Peggy.
Voters should be aware of the tactics being used to deceive them. That goes for Republican SEIU members that may be more conservative in their beliefs than the union fellows claiming to represent them by forming this pac.
Well, we learn from example, don’t we?
I understand the Repugs are pulling the very same stunt in Wisconsin.