Union

Nothing says Republican democracy in action and GOP ethics like stealing from a child

Submitted by Connecticut Man1 on May 13, 2010 - 16:52

“The King Middle School was kind enough to allow the Maine Republican Party to use their facilities, and we are deeply concerned about the lack of respect shown to the faculty,” McNally said in a statement. “The Maine Republican Party does not condone the destruction of property nor does it encourage the lack of tolerance that these people demonstrated.”

"These people" McNally is talking about stole a "pro-labor poster" from the kids classroom - leaving behind their GOP propaganda - and are the same tea baggin' members of the GOP that wrote the official party platform for the Maine GOP:

GOP, Union, crime, Maine, Tea Party, Stealing Candy From A Baby, Maine GOP Party Platform

United Steel Workers Union Supports Single Payer

Submitted by Connecticut Man1 on July 8, 2009 - 18:33

USW President Leo Gerard comments in an interview with the Real News Network on both his and his unions support of single payer healthcare: "I think we should fight for single payer healthcare, fight for a principled position."

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Indiana rejoins the Union: Klan no more!

Submitted by feduphoosier on November 5, 2008 - 20:25

Bumped and Promoted. Originally posted 2008-11-05 19:12:05 -0500. -- GH

Its a little eerie looking at the electoral map today. Not simply because Indiana is strangely blue. I can't help but notice that the Midwestern demarcation of the Mason-Dixon line is back. Indiana has rejoined the Union. Once Indiana farm boys proudly fought alongside Ohioans, men from Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan. We fought against slavery. The Underground Railroad ran right up through this state.

Probably more slaves crossed the Ohio river in front of Louisville than any place else from the mouth of the Wabash to Cincinnati. The black settlements at Jeffersonville, Clarksville and New Albany were the reason for this. The crossing at these places were all conveyed to Wayne county, Indiana, and on to the Lake. Wayne county had a large community of Quakers and the belief among fugitives was, that if they made it to Wayne County, the prospect of finding them was very remote. It was said that the old house built by Levi Coffin at Fountain City, Indiana had sheltered ten thousand runaway slaves.

When I was little and first learned about the Civil War, I was dumbfounded to learn that Indiana was once at war... with Kentucky! We share so much; common landscape, accents and family connections. In this century both states have been conservative 'red states,' solidly Republican. But it wasn't always that way. Once we were on different sides of a violent, ideological divide.

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Ohio Judge Strikes Down Republican Campaign Finance Bill, Wrong Bill Signed

Submitted by John Michael Sp... on December 6, 2007 - 17:46

ePluribus Media OhioNews Bureau

ONB COLUMBUS: An Ohio common pleas court judge struck down a Republican-pushed campaign finance bill Thursday because the wrong version of the legislation was signed by former Gov. Bob Taft and then filed with the secretary of State, making it the law of the land.

The controversial campaign finance bill was rammed through a lame-duck session of the legislature in 2006 by the GOP, which at the time enjoyed veto-proof margins in both chambers of the legislature and had a Republican governor willing to sign the bill.