Either Coleman does not at all understand the Employee Free Choice Act or is knowledgeably being dishonest.
In fact, he has the guts to say the “Employee Free Choice Act” has an “Orwellian” name when it’s the anti-factual “Center for Union Facts,” the anti-worker-freedom “Employee Freedom Action Committee” and the anti-democratic-workplace “Coalition for a Democratic Workplace” are the Orwellian-named organizations. It’s these organizations that are bankrolling these dishonest television and newspaper ads supporting Coleman as well as bankrolling Coleman’s campaign. I don’t think there is much question as to why Norm Coleman feels he needs to perpetuate this lie.
I love it when Democrats support issues that vast majority of citizens are opposed to. Private sector workers don’t like the idea of someone giving them a card, asking if they want to join a union, and then having everyone know the worker’s vote.
Keep talking about this as opposed to health care and other issues that the public actually supports you on.
Man you guys are dumb. No wonder you haven’t had a DFL Governor in 18 years.
Well when all the people are hearing is the LIES about the bill it is easy to understand this “vast majority” (link?)
The ads are lying about the bill.
Coleman is lying about the bill.
If you are opposed to something that is one thing, but you don’t get to LIE about it.
If the only way you can get a country to go to war is to lie about… well that just makes it a Republican tradition.
By the way is Coleman ashamed of being a Republican… only uses traditional Democratic Blue and doesn’t even say he’s a Republican in his ads or literature. Must be ashamed of Republicans.
Mr. Please,
Keep on supporting the anti-labor movement. Even private sector non-union laborers benefit from strong labor unions. Strong labor unions support benefits and wages that are fair, and that raises the bar for all labor. So called “right to work” states have the worst wages and benefits of all labor, unionized and non-union. It is in 95% of America’s economic interest to support labor. The you have idiots like you who want lower benefits and wages in order to increase share holder corporate profits. Why ae republicans such idiots. Seriosuly. If you make less than 150k per year and vote Republican because of economic reasons, you are seriosuly an idiot or ignorant or both. Republicans have done everything to destroy labor and increase cheap labor. Their direct goal is to have a corporate elite, and a cheap working poor. Which side are you Mr. Please? The cheap labor or the corporate elite?
Wow, please:
You bought the lie hook, line, and sinker. No wonder you guys elect all the toads you do.
This video is wonderful and I want to thank the Minnesota DFL for releasing it. As I wrote on my blog, I’m hearing the next video released by the DFL will be of Coleman talking about his love of America, apple pie and baseball.
Mike-
Have you seen the movie “American Pie”?
There you have it folks. Broadkorb supports lying.
@SeanH
As if it was ever in question. He is a republican, after all.
Michael B. Brodkorb, I agree 100%,
That’s why we “100% correct on ever issue” Republicans are working hard keeping the video bumped and well distributed on our blogs. It is also being rated up and favorated on Youtube, so as many people as possible can see Norm Coleman as he really is in person, without all the PR people and grooming.
Great Job!
How is Coleman lying? If the bill became law, would all workers who want to vote in secret on union organizing be guaranteed that right? The answer is NO.
Be honest, Democrats: This bill is a complete handout to the unions who, along with the trial lawyers and trust-fund liberals, fund your campaigns. Just admit it.
Jeff, it is quite simple. The bill does not eliminate the secret ballot. Coleman knows this. Coleman says it eliminates the secret ballot. Coleman is lying.
SeanH:
So are you telling me that, if the bill becomes law, I would have the right to vote in a secret ballot if some of my fellow employees want to unionize? Under no circumstance would my secret ballot be taken away if this bill becomes law, right?
Jeff,
You do realize that under current law the workers can have a secret ballot forced on them whether they want it or not? The EMPLOYER generally forces the secret ballot. Claiming this bill takes away a right is a lie, plain and simple.
The new law DOES NOT ELIMINATE THE SECRET BALLOT. Workers can still petition for a secret ballot the same as they always have. The same threshold exists as before. The ONLY thing changing is that the EMPLOYER loses the ability to force the secret ballot to give them time to coerce workers to vote against it.
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A secret ballot being “forced” on someone? Isn’t the right for our votes to be private matters what America is all about?
Interesting that you say employers “coerce.” I’m sure there would be no “coercing” by unions if this bill became law, right? My colleagues who really want a union but are a few votes shy would just leave me alone, right?
The unions wouldn’t hold signs up in my neighborhood saying “Shame on You, So-and-So” like they are doing in my neighborhood right now against a physician who lives on my block and is in the middle of a labor disbute, right?
Jeff, your ignorance on the issue is astounding. Currently employers can force workers to use a secret ballot EVEN IF the majority of workers sign a union card. What this bill does is take away that power from the employers. With the bill, if a majority of workers sign a union card then the union will be formed. If workers vote to use a secret ballot then it will be used.
Jeff, I’m guessing your doctor/neighbor is not an employee whose vote the union is after.
Who has more power to coerce, your unionizing colleagues (who might just pester you for awhile, until you complain and your employer tells them to stop), or an employer? Check the NLRB decisions — employers often threaten to close up or move, rather than be unionized, they engage in unlawful surveillance and questioning, they fire employees involved in unionizing campaigns. It’s all illegal, but it’s done, probably more often than reported. Can the union force you to come to an “informational” meeting, to tell you how bad the boss is?
The business groups that oppose this bill are shedding big ol’ crocodile tears about their dear workers’ secret ballots. Hogwash — they’re afraid of losing the power to campaign to a captive, and often frightened, audience.
Jeff: Please, your ignorance is giving me a headache. Do some REAL research on your own about this bill and then give your opinion. KARE 11 had a spot about it last night…this is propaganda at its evil best against the Dems…of course, someone like Jeff hears the word UNION and will go deaf and dumb on reality and stick with making the Dems look bad. Oh, thank you UNIONS for living wages and benefits…thank you, thank you.
It’s pretty amazing how the ones calling everyone else liars are lying themselves about the bill. The Employee Free Choice Act most certainly disfavors a secret ballot election to form a union. In fact, the only time a secret ballot election can be held is if more than 30% but less than a majority of employees sign union cards. The only reason this is even an issue is because private sector unions are going by the way side. You people claim that businesses intimidate employees. But what’s really going on is unions wanting to come in and bully employees into joining. It’s typical of the left. What they cannot get at the ballot box, they try to get in other ways.
Jeff: I’m going to be charitable and assume ignorance.
Chris: You are purposefully dissembling.
Hi Devon!
Chris, I agree 100%,
We Republicans have invested considerable capital in the ads that set up this straw man that would take down moonbat Al Franken. The ads were repeated over and over for many months, just the kind of coverage necessary for this straw man to be set up properly with average Minnesotans.
Now that we’ve unveiled the ad that knocks down the straw man, these moonbats who hate America and want to surrender to terrorists have a problem with it.
We should have expected this from them. The important thing is, considering our investment, our return on that investment.
We have to continue to make the case that Al Franken is against free elections because our spin says that. If we fail to make our case, well then the whole ad campaign we have been waging for quite some time would be all for nothing. We might as well have put our cash on a big pallet and had it helocoptered away, or handed out to people on the street.
Continue, please, to keep making your case so well. It is very easy to understand the straw man we are knocking down. Hopefully this spin will resonate with enough Minnesotans to cause a lot more hatred of Al Franken.
If we can’t make people hate Al Franken, then we will lose this election. We must win at any cost.
Great Job, Intellectually Superior Chris.
“Hi - my name is Bill McGuire; each and every year (before I got caught cheating on stock-options) I averaged over ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS - each and every year this decade!! And I gave BIG TIME bucks to republiCons like Little Markie, and ol’ Smokescreen, ’cause God knows I sure didn’t want them bitches, er, ’scuse me, “secretaries” forming a union! No, siree!!!
Why, it’s important that guys like me make the dough like we do, and make as much off of stock options as we do - we’re the “trickle down” those secretaries and janitors need, to provide ‘em with the part-time jobs (without benefits!) they need, to pay the rent!!!
Yep - unions are socialism, I tell you! I’m Bill McGuire, and I’m fightin’ to stay outa jail, er, ’scuse me, ‘I approve of this message’.”
Another 24 hours go by with Democrats NOT talking about education, health care, or the environment. By the way, the public trusts Democrats more on those issues then Republicans.
Another 24 hours go by and Democrats advertise their disagreement with the majority of Minnesotans.
Keep this in mind when Franken, Madia, and 12 incumbent Democrat State House members lose this November.
Ok, this might be a dumb question, but if Coleman’s commercials are in fact telling blatent lies about Franken’s position on the Employee’s Free Choice Act, why is that commercial allowed to stay on the air? Isn’t their any laws in place that prevent broadcasting lies as truth? Oh wait, if that were true, Faux News would have been off the air a long time ago… . .
Simple Linda. They are not lies. If you have a private sector job, under this law you would lose your guarantee to a secret ballot.
Please, there is NO guarantee of a secret ballot to lose. You are either misinformed or lying.
This is the worst smear job against a US Senator I have ever seen.
The so-called “Employee Free Choice” is completely opposite of what the title means.
There is no dispute that ALL workers, in every industry, deserve the fundamental American right to a federally supervised private ballot election.
To take away that right is an outrage. Union workers ought to grow a pair and tell their leadership to stick it!
Charlie, you are either misinformed or lying.
SeanH,
You’re not telling the truth about the EFCA. Under the current system, we have a secret ballot process to decide whether or not to form a union. The bill changes the process from a ballot system to a card check system. The only time a secret ballot can take place, under the bill, is when at least 30% and less than a majority of the people sign cards/petitions. Then you can have a secret ballot. The point is that unions want to come in and pressure workers into signing cards rather than having a secret ballot where your friends and colleagues don’t know how you vote. Why can’t you be honest about this?
Chris I agree 100%,
I think there are still some moonbats who don’t get it. You need to work harder knocking down that straw man we Republicans have worked so hard on for so long.
In the ad that knocks down the straw man, who does the thuggish character who hates the “hero” Norm Coleman represent?
Does he represent small business owners?
Perhaps you could explain this well, being a small business owner yourself.
Great Job Republican With Superiour Intelligence Chris
The new law would remove the EMPLOYERS ability to demand a secret ballot and use company time and resources to pressure workers into voting against the union using lies and intimidation.
SeanH,
That’s not true. The new law eliminates a secret ballot, except when between 30% and less than a majority of employees sign cards or a petition. Read the bill, not the AFL CIO talking points.
“Read the bill,…”
ROFLMAO!!!
Like YOU actually have??!?