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I found what follows on the Facebook wall of Peter Deutsch, secretary of Beaver County Reds. Before you proceed, consider the following comment Mr. Deutsch made (August 23, 2005) on the forum of the now-defunct Beaver County Coalition for Social Justice regarding the voting machine issue: “Perhaps provoking them [election officials] with stretched truths is an apporpriate [sic] tactic. But let’s see it for what it is … a tactic.” When do “stretched truths” become lies?
“DFA’s record of Tuesday Nov 8, 2011 election day wins throughout the nation.
“Yesterday voters around the country went to the polls to reject Koch-engineered legislation that would have escalated the War on Working Familes [sic], the War on Voting and the War on Women.”
[RWC] In case you don’t know, the Koch (pronounced “coke”) brothers are the latest lefty boogeymen because they are wealthy and contribute primarily to conservative candidates and causes. If the Koch brothers contributed primarily to lefty candidates and causes, as do wealthy lefties like Peter Lewis, George Soros, et al, they would be lefty heroes. For example, USW CEO Leo Gerard recently wrote of “Democratic benefactor George Soros.” As for “Koch-engineered legislation,” I suppose that’s possible, but as primary owners (84%) and operators of Koch Industries ($100 billion in annual revenue and about 67,000 employees), I suspect the Kochs have better things to do.
The “the War on Working Familes [sic], the War on Voting and the War on Women?” Seriously, from a PhD? Are there no women on the right and doesn’t anyone on the right work and vote? This is like when lefties claim those of us on the right favor polluted air, water, et cetera as if we’re extraterrestrials that don’t need to breathe, ingest water, grow food, et cetera.
Regarding “Working Familes [sic],” keep in mind lefties tend to have a different definition than most of us. In an old comment on the BCT website, Mr. Deutsch’s Beaver County Reds fellow leader Carl Davidson described his definition of “working-class” thusly: “If someone else [signs your paycheck], you’re in the working class.” I suspect most business owners - large or small - (who pay SS and Medicare taxes just as the rest of us) would be surprised to learn they aren’t working families. In some cases, the definition is even more restrictive and applies only to folks who belong to a labor union.
“- Victory in Ohio: the Walker-like attack on collective bargaining was resoundingly defeated.”
[RWC] Mr. Deutsch failed to note “the Walker-like attack on collective bargaining” applied only to public-sector employees. What did FDR and George Meany (first president of the AFL-CIO, 1955-1979) think of collective bargaining by public-sector unions? FDR (patron saint of lefties) opposed public-sector labor unions. In a 1937 letter to Luther C. Steward (President of the National Federation of Federal Employees), FDR wrote, “… meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.” Likewise, George Meany opposed collective bargaining for public-sector employees.
When politicians negotiate with labor union management, they negotiate with people who will return part of what they win to the politicians via taxpayer-funded campaign contributions. It’s called a conflict of interest. There’s a reason 93% of labor union management PAC contributions to federal candidates (over $62 million) went to Democrat candidates in 2010.
Mr. Deutsch failed to note those same Ohioans voted approximately 2:1 to oppose the individual mandate at the core of Obamacare.
“- Victory in Maine: the voter suppression tactic of eliminating same-day registration failed by a 20 percent margin.”
[RWC] As a reminder, any effort to ensure the integrity of elections, such as requiring a photo ID to vote, is a “voter suppression tactic” in the eyes of most lefties. An exception proving the rule is lefty darling and former President Jimmy Carter supports requiring a photo ID to vote. The difference between the left and right on voting is this: Lefties want every lefty vote to count while righties want every legal vote to count.
“- Victory in Mississippi: voters stood up for women and reproductive justice and said no to the ‘personhood’ amendment.”
[RWC] As a reminder, “reproductive justice” is leftyspeak for being in favor of abortion for convenience. The usual pro-abortion crowd opposed this ballot initiative, but so did many in the anti-abortion camp because they were concerned about unintended consequences such as possibly making some infertility treatments illegal. If the ballot initiative can be modified to address unintended consequences, I suspect it will come back and win approval.
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