Nevada voters from Democratic base release anti-Harry Reid ad (video)

[Sandra]

Nevada voters from Democratic base release anti-Harry
Reid ad (video)

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Published: Oct 30, 2010
Author: Kerry Picket

Video link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJf1BBuvVRk&feature=player_embe...



Things in Nevada are getting hotter. Not content with the
direction the country and their home state is going in, a group of Nevada
voters calling themselves “Concerned Nevadans That Care About Our
Country” will launch an anti-Harry Reid ad this evening.

Members of this group represent those from traditional Democratic
coalitions and base demographics, like: African-Americans, Latinos, and
union members.

In the ad, these individuals urge Democratic Nevada voters to break away
from their practice of supporting liberals like Harry Reid.

In fact, the ad goes one step further and looks to draw in union members
who are disgruntled with union leadership’s pro-amnesty policies.


Here are a few remarks that will be part of the ad:

"Union Leaders are betraying their members by endorsing Reid and
Extreme Liberal Policies"

"Unions are recruiting illegals and paying them 1/3 the union wage
for union jobs"

"These practices exploit illegals, while simultaneously denying
Americans jobs"

"Progressives like to exploit racial division for political
advantage"

“I even a got a contract that’s a local 844 agreement where our general
president and all these people deliberately kept the Hispanics out of
this meeting, because what they wanted to do was to negotiate contractors
for $11.96 an hour versus $37, and they did,” said Darrin Oglesbee (shown
in the ad), of Iron Workers Local 416 in Las Vegas, during an interview
with me on Monday.

“Here’s the kicker, their union dues, are the same as mine. The
international is going to get their money, but [say] ‘sorry we
short-changed you on your money there, buddy,’“ he said.

The union member presence in the ad is a potent weapon given membership
is currently struggling with its leaders over policy from card check
legislation to immigration reform. Union bosses are likely feeling uneasy
about membership anger over job losses and union demands from the
members.

A recent Water Cooler post of mine noted that union leadership could not
get a guarantee that their members will vote the way the leadership wants
them too. Union leadership may already be trying to quash rebellious
behavior

Reno Nevada Union member Babette Rutherford already filed a complaint
citing voter intimidation and bribery among other accusations toward
union officials According to the complaint (h/t ATR):

“...voter intimidation, coercion, bribery, undue influence, and
violations of the rules governing poll watchers.” In her complaint filed
with the Nevada Secretary of State, Rutherford highlights three early
voting stations where unions bussed workers to the polls and proceeded to
“escort” and “watch” members vote. At the Boulevard Mall, Las Vegas early
voting station, the registered poll watchers questioned the legality of
the occurrences only to be told by the Election Board Team Leader that
“union personnel were watching members vote because that’s the ‘whole
point’ of busing them there.”

If such tactics are happening at Nevada polls, union leadership must
really be concerned they have lost control of their members. Union
membership is more than likely to be concerned. A new study released on
Friday by the Pew Hispanic Center showed that as more immigrants are
gaining jobs, more native-born individuals are losing their jobs. The
report states:

The unemployment rate for immigrant workers fell in the first year of the
recovery from 9.3 percent to 8.7 percent, while for native-born workers,
it rose from just over nine percent to nearly 10 percent, the study
shows.

But even though the jobs situation looked better for immigrants than the
native-born, foreign-born workers have a long way to go before they have
fully recovered from the effects of the recession.

"The 650,000 jobs immigrants gained in the first year of the
recovery are not nearly sufficient to make up for the 1.1 million jobs
they lost" in the recession, the report says.

Darrin Oglesbee believes dire economic circumstances and poor politically
driven decision making from leadership has become too much from members,
but not every union member can necessarily be swayed away from union
bosses persuasion.

“The more the members get educated, the calmer they get and the more they
use their head. The people who have just gotten into organized
labor...it’s those people who will do whatever they can to get theirs.
There’s really no brotherhood in the union anymore, it’s every man for
himself.”

[Sandra]

Seems like the dems are ion a well deserved run. They all deserve to lose, look what the politicians have done. Be sure to check the next blog some good history on crappy Reid.