Ed Glad of House Dist. 24... Backed by the thugs
We all knew this was coming several months ago when the political luminaries were gathering around to look at this race. Most folks in the movement conservative community quickly rallied around Jim Weidner.
The thought was that since his opponent (at the time) was a former union lobbyist and that the unions were going to try to steal a seat that is a traditional Republican stronghold. Further thought was that at the last minute the union thugs would jump on board his campaign at the last minute and see if they could sweep through.
Well we were right. The union thugs are trying to sneak one through the Republican primary.
Ed Glad's contributors say it all:
---Citizen Action for Political Education $5,000: That’s a public employee union PAC.
---Carpenters Union $20,442
---Oregon Nurse PAC $500 – look and see who they’ve given to.
---OEA $1,000
---American Federation of Teachers $1,000
---AFSCME $2,500
Now does that list sound at all representative of Republicans in Yamhill County Oregon?
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It wouldn't surprise me if the unions are funnelling money through the carpenters' union, either. The carpenters union is an out of state group that isn't even required to report its contributions!
What is Glad and the Carpenters' union hiding? Glad should demand the Carpenters' union open their books to see if the OEA and other unoin thugs are laundering money.
People in HD 24 should beware, Glad is a cancer the union goons are trying to put in the caucus.
And of course, the McMinnville News Resister and the Newberg Pornographic, two of the state's most liberal rags, both endorsed Glad, who's spent the last few years as a union lobbyist in Salem. He's not backed by the thugs - he's their mouthpiece.
And in the meantime, Bunn and Weidner waste their time beating each other up. How dumb.
You gotta hand it to the unions though. What better way to get inside the Republican caucus than to inject one of their own.
Makes me wonder what Bunn was thinking when he filed to run.
He was a longshot but he might just might have the name recognition to siphon away enough votes to hand the election to the union shill...
Actually, Weidner might siphon away votes from Bunn......
Big Labor is far less important, powerful, and corrupt than Big Business in this country. Funny how you don't complain about the ~$150B/yr in corporate welfare.
Corporations are bands of individuals hoping to accomplish more than they can individually (including gain power).
Unions are the same thing.
Thugs are thugs. I know that unions have done a lot for working people across this country.
This is OUT-OF-STATE union money coming in to pollute a political campaign in Oregon! [insert Howard Dean Scream here]
You can be sure that fact will be ignored by The Funny Paper and the rest of the News Guild operatives masquerading as MSM.
david appell: Some corporations are trying to become like unions - where their income is wholly determined by gov't regulations. (Regulated monopolies are already in this category.) But most corporations have to compete for your dollar. Unions are 100% a product of gov't regulation and you have to pay for that in the prices of your goods and services (unless you boycott unionized companies), and taxes, whether you like it or not. That's a big difference. And that's why "Progressive" businesses who are seeking welfare ought to be smacked down, as you suggest. Thanks for bringing that up.
I will keep coming back to this theme...ultimately, a mainstay of our conservative strength will lie in our ability to boycott the goods and services of companies that give big money to candidates and causes we disapprove of. We can't match our opponents for money. We may not even be able to match them for manpower.But we can impact them by refusing to buy their goods and services and depriving them of money, which is what they really care about. They do what they do because they can make money doing it, not because they believe it. If we can make them understand that they will lose more money by alienating us than they will gain by catering to our spiritual, political and philosophical opponents, they will stop supporting them overnight. Guaranteed. More on this later.
Heading the boycott list right now: McDonalds, which just joined the Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Chamber of Commerce. You can find more on that at the Family Research Center web site, as well as the American Family Association.
Anonymous (afraid to back up his opinion with his real name) wrote:
> david appell: Some corporations
> are trying to become like unions > - where their income is wholly
> determined by gov't regulations. > (Regulated monopolies are already > in this category.) But most
> corporations have to compete for > your dollar.
Up to a point. All the oil companies make a nice profit, and get $50B/yr from the US government. I'm amazed that does not shame you.
> Unions are 100% a product of
> gov't regulation
If you knew anything about the history of unions, you'd know that they arose in spite of government regulations, not because them.
In any case, people have the right to assemble. That's guaranteed in the constitution.
Are you advocating we revise that?
Are you also going to argue against the NRA, for example?
Instead of throwing the "thug" accusation around, I'd be curious to know from any of Glad's critics if there was any legislation that the carpenter union sponsored or supported that you disagree with? Seems to me you're using an all-purpose, anti-union smear to go after someone who possibly happens to agree with you on 97 percent of your issues.
Where does Glad stand on:
- card-check instead of secret-ballot union recognition elections? UBC (Carpenters Union): YES
- monopoly representation (union security clause)? UBC: YES
- project labor agreements (union-only public construction)? UBC: YES
- requiring union membership as a precondition of employment? UBC: YES
I agree. We are definitely using the term "thug" too liberally. I prefer to use the term "goon" to describe Ed Glad and his fellow union henchmen.
Card check is a good place to start.
Also, the unions (including the carpenters union) supported the legislation that has devastated the initiative process.
They also suported Measure 26, which has been used to devastate the initiative system.
They also supported Measure 30, the largest tax increase in Oregon's History.
Shall I go on?
By the way, the Carpenters Union, which Ed Gald lobbies for, supported all the previous pieces of "legislation"
Do you really think the people of House District 24 supported Measure 30?
I think not.
He is a goon and a thug and should go back to being a democrat.
David,
Up to a point? Is that your argument? I mean really?
Sure there are some businesses that recieve corporate welfare. However they are the exception and not the rule and your disproportionate examples reflect that.
What in the heck do the oil companies have to do with house district 24? Except that there is NO oil company money going to any of the candidates.
Yet there is plenty of out of state UNION money going to Ed Glad.
Yet unions are the sole product of government protection. You can go back and site over a hundred years ago the birth of the union movement all you want.
However the unions that are around today look nothing like what your daydreams of old looked like.
Oh and it is not about being against anyone's right to assemble. The fact that you bring that lame argument up runs you very close to moron status.
They can assemble all they want. But the fact of the matter is that if a private business wants to protect his business and investment and dares interfere with the unions right to assemble on HIS property then the government steps in.
Assemble all you want. But don't use the force of a gun to make me allow you to assemble ON MY DIME, TIME AND PROPERTY.
But you don't get that do you?
And the card check system is nothing but a way to intimidate people into becoming a member of a union. Instead of allowing people the right to vote by a secret ballot (because in secret people are walking away from unions) they now need to resort back to the age old tactic of intimidation.
anon 2:25
Where are you? I think it is pretty clear that the union goons (aka Ed Glad) support legislation that only liberal portlanders could appreciate.
Hello? you there?
ED glad says he has been a "life long republican". How many republicans have done this
1)Give money to hooley a Democrat.
$250.00 dollars.
2)Give money to the democratic party. $500.00 all of which came from him personally.
3)Got the endorsement from the OEA.
{noted demovrtic union)
This guy is a fraud. vote with you eyes open and follow the money!
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