It Must Be Great Having a State of Oregon Job

First we had the State of Oregon Department of Revenue doing NOTHING to the at least 3 employees who allowed a Salem woman to steal $2.1 million in a tax fraud case.  "State officials declined to release the names of the affected employees or more details about the type of discipline involved. Discipline could involve pay freezes or reductions, but there was no word on whether either was involved."  They won't even let us know which incompetent boobs let this happen.  


NOW, we have a State Treasury spokesperson who runs over a man trying to cross a street.  A traffic ticket?
I was just asking Justin, my producer, this morning before the second story came out: "say what do you think it would take to get fired if you were a State worker?"  We both agreed, MAYBE......murder.  Sheesh, were we wrong!

SEIU funds new Anti-Tea Party Website

It has just come to my attention that there is a new website out there called:

The Tea Party Is Over (Click for website)

Here is a quote from the front page:
Our Strategy is simple. This movement is a fad. Some of their ideas include the belief that programs like Social Security and Medicare are socialistic and should never have been created in the first place and that President Obama is a Socialist. Other ideas include undermining the legitimacy of the federal government in favor of a radical rightwing form of state’s rights. We need to prevent their dangerous ideas from gaining a legislative foothold. So our strategy is to spread the truth about their dangerous ideas and prevent their policies from taking root in America.

Now I have no problem with the left having their little website, it's the group that is funding it that I have a problem with!
The site is paid for by The American Public Policy Committee. According to Open Secrets dot org, their two donors are Patriot Majority and Patriot Majority West. However, the second largest contributor in 2008 to Patriot Majority was the SEIU and other powerful unions. I have outlined the donations below:

American Public Policy Committee: Top Contributors, 2010 Cycle Rank Contributor Total
1 Patriot Majority West $25,000
2 Patriot Majority $5,000

This data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

Patriot Majority: Top Contributors, 2008 Cycle Rank Contributor Total

1 American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $5,800,000
2 Service Employees International Union $770,000
3 Change to Win $500,000 4 Patriot Majority West $300,000
4 Communications Workers of America $300,000
6 Teamsters Union $250,000
7 Patriot Majority Midwest $161,000
8 United Food & Commercial Workers Union $125,000
9 Bauman Foundation $25,000
10 American Affordable Health Care $11,874
11 Oklahoma Freedom Fund $10,469
12 Pennsylvania AFL-CIO $6,500
13 Bluegrass Freedom Fund $5,000
14 Public Security Now $920
15 American Public Policy Cmte $861

This data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday, January 19, 2010.

I wonder if the diversion of union money is acceptable to the union members or heck, if the members even know about it?

Want to really have some fun? Click on the link above for the website and flood them with emails, tweets and Facebook postings reminding them of Massachusetts and the upcoming November elections! The email addresses, twitter account and Facebook pages are all available for anyone to join. This is Democracy in action my friends!

SEIU Union Thug Livin' Large On Union Wages?

Down in Humboldt County, California, a group of folks gathering for a Democrat's town hall meeting, were joined by this fellow:

Now you might say, "so what, what does this have to do with Oregon? Well, here is the story from a blogger in the area:

First this car rolled in as we were standing in line.....from Oregon.
Either it's an official Mike Thompson peace-mobile or it's a Mercedes that drove all the way from Portland.

Then this caricature-on-legs slithered out of it. Seriously you could smell the sleazy boss hog cologne and cigar smoke from twenty feet away. Can you say union thug-o-crat?
Sometimes you just can't believe your eyes...or make this stuff up. I had to cough to keep from just laughing out loud....
That Mike Thompson...he sure knows some classy people.

"Hey doll, wanna go for a ride in my 'benz?"

Then he began to "work" the crowd...but he was very specific in who he talked to and he went directly to them, right out of his car. Can you tell how he knew who to talk to yet?

I'll give you a hint...look for the purple......

Yes, the idiots were color coded for this little gathering. Guess who Thompson called on in the meeting?
BTW....there will be an award for anyone who can identify Mr. Big and the union he represents....oh, come on we all know which one loves purple and morons....

So, what is an SEIU mobster doing in California, obviously being FROM Oregon? I will have to keep looking into this story!