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Massachusetts Working Families Mount Big Push for Coakley
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Massachusetts working families are on the phones, doorsteps and worksites–mobilizing a get-out-the-vote drive for Martha Coakley in today’s special election for the U.S. Senate.
Coakley, the Bay State’s attorney general, has a long record of supporting working families. As attorney general, she vigilantly enforced prevailing wage, overtime, employee misclassification, independent contractor and workplace discrimination laws. She has earned the support of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO.
As a U.S. senator, Coakley says she will be a strong advocate for job creation and the Employee Free Choice Act. She vows to continue the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s legacy of fighting for working families.
Her opponent, Scott Brown, strongly opposes the Employee Free Choice Act. Like an echo from the Bush-Cheney days, Brown believes the answer to the economic crisis is to give more tax cuts to the wealthy.
Brown opposes a proposed fee on Wall Street firms that received taxpayer bailouts and then gave extravagant bonuses to executives. Coakley says that exemplifies a major difference between them.
I choose to stand with the middle-class taxpayers who deserve to get their money back from the big banks that caused the economic crisis and are now lavishing bonuses on failed executives. Scott Brown is standing with Wall Street CEOs. As attorney general, I’ve stood up to Wall Street and recovered millions of dollars back for taxpayers
In the state legislature, Brown turned his back on working families when he voted to cut unemployment benefits for people who needed them the most.
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Why, after receiving a ‘special’ deal to not have to pay the 40% tax on health insurance do you think the rest of America wants to? When faced with this, you guys got all wee wee’d up… No, this is not health care reform and you know it and you know that Coakley is NOT the choice that is best for America, it is Brown. The libs have been paying off all those who supported them and have paid wall street and the banks and the unions. It has forgotten those of us who do work for a living, the little guy, not in a union, but purchase union goods. Taking more money away from us will eventually come around to bite you as the cost of products due to the cost of labor will be out of reach due to the additional taxes we will have to bear,
Union rank and files are not supporting this healthcare bill. One look at some of the last threads will show that. HR 676 is supported by 9 out of 10 of union workers, not this mutant bill created by neolibs. It’s unaccountable leaders making these deals. Don’t belive that the rank and file aren’t trying to do something about it.
However, the Employee Free Choice Act is supported. I don’t live in Massechusets, but anyone who is actually doing something to move it through (not just empty talk) has my vote. IF that’s Martha Coakley, I thank her for having the spine to do something worth while, unlike the blue dog losers who have the majority.
Although I’m no longer a democrat, I’ve never seen a reason yet, to ever vote for a republican. If Ron Paul would cut the crap and support EFCA I’d vote for him in a nano-second.
Before Congress repealed the economic safeguards,pensions and money set aside for health benefits were very profitable accounts.However ,to increase corporate profits the restrictions were removed.True profits increase but the increase when to wallstreet and upper management compensation and very little tricked down.To con the public, the union is being blamed.Companies are falling,why,union.Can’t produce quality goods or service,why, the union.Our education system is failing,why, the union.Just like we need traffic laws,we need economic laws to insure we have a healthy society.We are a free market capitalist country that not only took care of us but had overflow to help others.Both major political parties seem unable to see what went wrong and spend their efforts trying to establish identity rather than see what went wrong.
before you blame Unions you must look at yourself, I am a proud union member and fight for the rights of all. We must put people into the position that will help us. They said the same thing about medicare years ago as they are about healthcare and I don’t see anyone wanting to give it up. I agree Unions must become strong and fight and I think there are alot of out there fighting. It is not the Unions who lost us jobs. It was the greed of Companies and their CEO’S not willing to share profits with their employees. They went overseas for cheaper labor and to take advantage of workers, I pray that Martha Coakley wins because I know she will take on the fight for Senator Kennedy who cared about the normal Joe. Unions must come together and get out and vote the right people in, if they do not do the job vote them out. Make sure they are working for us not big business or the insurance companies
Now that the presidential election is over,the time is right for labor to straighten out the facts.Take healthcare or pensions for examples,prior to Congress changing the laws,these accounts actually were profitable.Raiding them or not fully funding them did and does increase the bottom line.The problem is the effect.Not only are these obligations neglectected ,but the lion share of the profit goes to Wallstreet and high level compensation.But who is portrayed as the villain.Companies are falling because of the union,can’t produce quality products and service because of the union.Our schools are failing ,why, you guessed it ,the union.Why are the unions being cool as they watch wallstreet greed plan their funeral?An American has a 10 million to one odds of being an average wage earner compared to a beneficiary of executive compensation.It is good to back candidates, but LABOR needs a fully funded wing free of all politics whose missions is to educated CONGRESS and AMERICA how they are being used by a group of slick crooks.
I hear what your saying (mars7578 on 18.01.2010 at 08:00.)
And, Even the CEO of GE Jeff Imelt has stated repeatedly that Research and Development departments of U.S. mfrs. started going down in the early 70′s and never came back up in the U.S. at all.
Now I look at that, and see this:
When did we start getting competition from foreign cars and other products, the early 70′s, when did employment in manufacturing go down from what was 1/3 of all employment, the early 70′s.
But somehow unions, instead of taking an offensive position and deploy the real facts, at a time when more people were in a union, or knew someone in a union and would listen. Instead took a defensive position and became intraverted. I’m 23, I didn’t know what a union was until about 5 years ago. Although I’d agree that could be due to a tremendously biased anti-union media (even though they theirselves are union) and lack of labor education in school, this has to be blamed in part to a lack of effort of the unions to show people the facts.
I used to think that it would be the Republican Party that would foster in great changes in America just by their blatant destruction of this country but now I see that it will be the Democrats unwillingness to do those things that were promised during the 2006 and 2008 campaigns that are allowing the American people to see both parties feeding at the trough of special interests and corporations.By recognizing the minute difference,at best in the Rs and Ds,America will be forced to do something monumentally different.
I really hope that Scott Brown wins the election tomorrow. Martha Coakley seems totally out of touch with the real people of Massachusetts. For example. Martha did not even know that Curt Shilling was a member of the Boston Red Sox team. She stated that “Curt Shilling was a Yankee fan,” and unbelievably she was not kidding. Also, Martha made some really arrogant comments about how Catholics who do not believe in prescribing the morning after pill which induces abortion, should not be allowed to work in emergency rooms. I am a pro-life studnet doctor who is a Catholic and it is against my religious belief to prenscribe any kind of contraceptive or any kind of pill that worud induce an abortion. So I guess Martha Coakeley feels that people like me should not be allowed to work as doctors then! How insulting. Has Martha Coakeley not heard that we all have religious freedom still in America? We are not a communist or socialist Marxist country yet!!!!Also, it seems like this health care bill that is going to cost trillions of dollars( so much money) for Americans and will probably end up bankrupting America, is being jammed down the throats of Americans at lightning speed. This health care bill is huge and it seems that most of the Senators who voted yes for this bill have not even read it yet. Why can’t we take the necessary time to come up with a good health care bill plan that won’t bankrupt our country? Why is this bill being pushed on all of us without the proper time to think about whetehr or not we realy want this health care bill? VOTE for Scott Brown!!!!! He will save America from being Bankrupted by this health care bill!!!!
The only thing worse then two party Govt. is one party govt.! I’ve been a Union man all my life,same as my father and Grand Father. but whats going on now is not good for any of us because its not good for America. I don’t live in Mass., so I sent Scott Brown $50.00,and I’m proud of it!