Pro-Union Goon attacks Tea Party Member…Cited by Police

More civility from the left. We’ve had more examples of violence during the past two weeks that its getting hard to keep up with. Still no violence or arrests on the Tea Party side over the past two years.

News10.net reports:

SACRAMENTO, CA. – Two opposing groups were at the California Capitol Saturday afternoon rallying for their causes.

With hundreds of supporters each, tea partiers and MoveOn.org activists faced off on opposed sides of 10th Street.

MoveOn.org organized the rally to support union workers protesting in Wisconsin. Tea partiers organized the rally against union workers.

…The opposing rallies were divided by 10th Street, west of the State Capitol. All was peaceful, until members supporting unions crossed the street.

An amateur videographer caught a shoving match on tape. The video showed a face to face argument right before Richard Andazola, 28, of Stockton, shoved a tea party activist.

“He bum rushed across the street, came right at us, swung his bullhorn at me, hit me in the hand and then put his hand around my throat and started choking me,” Rodney Stanhope of Placerville said.

The video doesn’t show the choking incident, but clearly shows the shoving. Because of it, Sacramento Police officers cited Andazola for battery.

Here’s a video of Andazola shouting “fascists” at the Tea Party group before he went:

Chuck DeVore has more on this story over at BigGovernment.com

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AFL-CIO Head Goon: Raising Taxes will create Jobs

Another example of why those on the left are clueless when it comes to job creation. We have heard Nancy Pelosi claim that unemployment checks creates jobs. Now we have AFL-CIO’s head union goon, Richard Trumka, proclaiming that raising taxes will create jobs.

Hey genius. Obama spent billions on infrastructure with his $812 billion stimulus. The unemployment rate went up, not down.

From Yahoo Finance:

What’s the best way to get Americans back to work?

Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.  Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending.  “We need a dedicated source of revenue to create infrastructure in this country,” he tells Aaron Task in the accompanying clip.  

$812 billion wasn’t enough? How much money do we need to spend on infrastructure?

“We need to create jobs.  The best way to do that is through infrastructure development.”  Simply maintaining the existing infrastructure in this country will cost $2.2 trillion over five years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.  That doesn’t include Obama’s objective of high-speed rails and green energy projects.

AmTrac is a doozy. It has never made a dime in it’s history.

Trumka didn’t say specifically how much he would raise the gas tax, but mentioned he’s shown the President a $256 billion plan to improve infrastructure.  If every billion spent on infrastructure creates 35,000 jobs, as he claims, this package would create close to 9 million jobs over the next five years. 

The idea would also improve America’s fiscal and competitive future, says Trumka. “There’s also a downstream effect, you put people back to work, they pay taxes, they don’t use services, they’re contributing, other jobs are created along the way as well,” he explains.

Keynesian economics has been proven a failure. Look at Obama’s stimulus for an example.

The White House isn’t on-board with the plan.  Addressing the issue on “Face the Nation” in January, White House Chief of Staff Richard Daley said he isn’t in favor of raising taxes right now.

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Let the Chicago Corruption Begin…Emanuel aid resigns over ethics violation

Did we expect anything different?

(CNN) – A co-chair of Chicago mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s transition team resigned from her new post Friday after it was revealed that she left her high-level state job last summer over ethics violations, CNN confirmed Saturday.

Judy Erwin previously served as the executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and served on then-candidate Barack Obama’s Education Policy Committee during his 2008 presidential campaign. On Thursday, she was named to Emanuel’s transition team and according to a news release, Erwin was also recently hired as managing director for ASGK Public Strategies, the communication management firm founded by former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod.

But a recent decision by the state Executive Ethics Commission says Erwin used her state e-mail account and phone to campaign for Obama, engaging in campaign fundraising activity and using staff resources to help plan her trip to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. The filing states that Erwin stepped down from her position at the Board of Education on August 15.

It’s the Chicago way!

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Union Goon, from Chicago, literally foaming from the mouth (Video)

This is the face of civility from the left. Again, this will not be showed by the mainstream media.

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Labor Unions Are Tools of Leftists and Their Radical Brethern, Marxists

by Snidely Whiplash

One would think this would be glaringly obvious to all…well, at least to all who are not members of unions or have some particular affinity for unions as they stand in America today. I have written a couple of articles about unions the last week or so and some of the “pro-union” comments are nearly indecipherable. Allow me to clarify for readers and to make my position clear.

Unions provide Democrats with two things Democrats need – money and bodies in the streets. Recall that last year a poll as conducted by Rasmussen that found “19%” of people self-identified as liberal, whereas “41%” identified themselves as conservative. That’s more than two to one for the mathematically challenged. Add in independents and clearly liberals are the tiny minority. Yet who is the loudest…at least before Tea Party Americans? Yep…lefties!

Despite their relatively small numbers they could make a racket that would imply they were the majority or at least half of all Americans…they were not then and are not now. As I wrote yesterday citing US labor statistics, only “14.7 million” Americans are in labor unions, yet listening to the news of the last week one would think unions were these huge entities of poor, trodden upon workers. Unions only make up about 11% of the workforce. Could the other 89% of workers actually be being abused 40 hours per week? BS.

Unions have become tools of leftism. They provide bodies and money to Democrats and Democrats protect them as if they were their young. It’s truly a symbiotic relationship. Whenever we hear chatter of union this and that it is always falling from the lips of a leftist. That clearly proves it’s political. Whenever any one ideology embraces and the other rejects, it’s all politics.

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