To further illustrate how messed up Coleman’s continued lying about the EFCA is, WCCO found that Coleman actually supported what he now denounces and lies about:
See the entire video at WCCO.
Coleman signed a resolution asking businesses to stay out of union elections and allowing unions to form by signing union cards. When campaign manager Cullen Sheehan was asked about it, Sheehan indicated that Coleman supported this right in the city of Saint Paul but doesn’t for the rest of the United States. Al Franken responded:
[Coleman] simply is shameless. He will say whatever he thinks people want to hear at that time and he doesn’t believe it — he’ll just say anything. You can’t trust the man.
Not only is Coleman a bold-faced liar, this report illustrates how he’ll switch his positions depending on whomever is paying to keeping him in his cushy Washington seat. I’m sure the Coleman staffers were scrambling when this came out.
More at WCCO, Minnesota Independent and MinnPost.
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Par for the course for Choppers. Wet finger and put it in the air to see which way wind is blowing. Change ideology to go with wind.
You Coleman supporters should know, this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
The Coleman Robot Senator just eased my fears about him getting reelected… he’ll be caucusing and voting with the Democrats in no time. As soon as he sees how the power is going to be restructured in Washington, he’ll wash those Republicans right out of his hair. What you Republicans think Norm is going to stand up for Republican principles in the face of President Obama and a veto proof Democratic Senate? We liberals win no matter who gets elected or even better you Republican conservatives LOSE no matter who gets elected.
Coleman should be ashamed for supporting union thuggery. I thank you for bringing this to the attention of staunch GOP supporters; it is up to us to make sure that Coleman continues to improve in his next term.
I’ll be writing the Senator to remind him that Republicans do not support union thuggery, and we expect him to stand firm in support of everyones right to a secret ballot election.
Employer thugery is just fine and dandy eh swiftee? Because that is the ONLY thing the bill eliminates.
Can you yell that a little louder, SeanH? I’m not quite intimdated yet, and J Hoffa Jr. isn’t impressed either.
You really don’t want to piss off “the boss”, knowwhatimean? Fagetaboudit.
Swiftee, I agree 100%,
Everybody knows small business owners are thugs who hate “heroes” like Norm Coleman.
Great Job!
Keep spreading the lies not so swiftee. Its all modern day “conservatives” have left when they are wrong on virtually every issue.
Geeze, I’ve just realized that Senator Coleman was a Democrat when he supported union thuggery.
That’s news….to who?
Aaron, why does the Democrat party hate Democracy and the sanctity of the secret ballot?
Swiftee-
Coleman switched to the Republican party in 1996. He signed the St. Paul City Council resolution on 9.11.97, as a Republican.
Additionally, have you ever seen a union election at a workplace? Do you even know what happens before, during and after? It’s anything but fair and sacrosanct, as labor law in this country is a joke, and the employers know it.
To be clear: The Employee Free Choice Act does not eliminate the secret ballot. In fact, if 30% of the workers in a workplace still want to have that kind of election, they may petition to do so. That decision, under EFCA, falls to the workers and not the employer.
Your argument is just a ruse being used by parrots of big business to scare people. Why do you think the whole ad campaign is funded by the Chamber of Commerce and the Retail Industry of America? This has more to do with power than it does protecting “workplace democracy.” Even that very catch-phrase assumes that democracy even exists in any way, shape, or form at the workplace at current time.
P.S. You can drop the “union thuggery” bit and other assorted mob stereotypes from the 1950’s and 60’s. It cheapens your argument.
If you can explain to me how having some union hack present you with a card to sign while he stands there is a better safeguard than stepping into a curtained booth by yourself, I’m all ears “R”.
This is a last ditch attempt by unions to force themselves into work forces that have rejected them time and time again. Union thuggery is alive and well in the 21st century; to deny that fact cheapens your argument.
BTW, if a “Check card” system is so peachy, do you support extending it to general elections, “R”? Should we make at least 30% of the population step up and demand a secret ballot?
Swiftee,
It is the campaigning time that is in question. No one objects to fair and free elections, but corporaate fascists like you have turned the election period into a Mugabesque Zimbabwe in the workplace. So, if there were fair elections all along, we wouldn’t be talking about this today, but it is the corporatists that f-ed up Democracy. Fascism is corporatism and is the enemy of Democracy.
Swiftee-
I would like to hear you define, exactly, “thuggery.”
I have worked alongside of people in the labor movement for many years and I have seen everything from passion, to outright anger, to bravado, and even deep disagreement. However, I have yet to ever witness what I believe you are attempting to generically qualify as thuggery.
Secondly, I am sorry that you have such little regard for the capacity of your fellow man that you would honestly believe that any group of people would willingly succumb to thuggery, of any kind, and just passively sign a union card. I will tell you that 50% + 1 of any group on Earth is not just giving their signature away for ANY reason, nevermind collective bargaining.
To address another question asked: Let us entertain the scenario of card-check as extended to general elections. Try to imagine, if you will, that every elected representative had to obtain a signed authorization card from a majority of people over the age of 18 in their district stating they should be their chosen representative. If they fail to demonstrate a 50% + 1 majority, they are not elected.
I think that it is infinitely more democratic for any entity, labor included, to have to demonstrate a true majority rather than the simple majority of whoever in the hell feels like showing up to vote on a given day.