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King country seems to be putting pressure on Key Bank over one of their customers’ labor dispute. I’m not surprised that a union would resort to treachery and heavy handedness. I am surprised that a county government would act as union thugs in a labor dispute.
The Business Examiner Daily reports “Trucking labor dispute ropes in bank“. The simple explanation is that King County government seems to be trying to put pressure on Key Bank to, in turn, put pressure on Oak Harbor Freight to cave to the union’s demands.
We saw the same thing a few months ago in Illinois when a union pressured a bank first to make risky loans to a failing business and then, when that didn’t work, to make risky loans to former employees of that unionized business that was forced to close. It wasn’t the bank’s fault that they closed. In fact, it was probably party the union’s fault. The business had been unionized just a few years earlier and that fact probably contributed to the company’s inability to remain competitive in the slowing housing market that it supplied.
I think unions have out-lived their usefulness in this country. There was a time when businesses were out of control and abusing employees because of greed. Since that time laws have been changed to protect workers. Unions no longer fill that role in society.
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From NewsBusters.Org:
It is quite sad that it takes a lawsuit for the New York Times to at least sort of admit their wrong doing in publishing the disgrace to professional journalism that article is. And it is maddening that their pseudo-apology falls well short of what is required for this kind of egregious assault on reporting. Not to mention that it seems to take a lawsuit to make the New York Times print an editorial contrary to their opinion.
Recently the NYT stock price fell below the price of their Sunday edition. When will they learn.
No wonder newspapers want a bailout. The Democrat party should pay for their advertising (cleverly hidden in supposed news articles.)
The Public Disclosure Commission, responsible for investigating violations of the state’s campaign laws, has dismissed a claim that Bruce Dammeier (R-Puyallup) had violated ‘in-kind’ disclosure laws. The problem is that it wasted tax dollars to investigate this unsubstantiated claim and probably confused some voters needlessly. As usual, it appears to be nothing more than dirty politics.
It always amazes me that it’s Democrats who usually make these false claims which never stick, while at the same time they dismiss substantiated allegations. Want some examples?
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It seems that Norm Dicks has received $59,500 in campaign contributions from a defense lobbyist group that, in turn, received about $100 million in defense contracts for it’s clients
In case you hadn’t guessed already, I didn’t vote for him. It does remind me of one of the funniest campaign stickers I’ve ever seen. Someone tore off the ‘rm’ from one of his stickers and slapped it on the sidewalk at the Freedom Fair.
Since Dicks is a Democrat there will likely be nothing that becomes of this fact. However, if he were a Republican you can bet he’d be investigated by every government agency with even the remotest interest in such things.
It’s kind of like Barry signing an executive order restricting the hiring of lobbyists, then turning around and filing for numerous exceptions to his own rules. I’m guessing you didn’t hear much about it. The media like to keep the facts about Barry quiet, just like they do for any other Democrat. Republicans, of course, receive no such special treatment in the media.
Dicks among beneficiaries of suspect lobbyist firm
Another point to note about this story is that the congressman at the center of this investigation is none other than ABSCAM-bribe-recipient-caught-on-tape John Murtha. Has anyone heard if he’s going to be prosecuted for accepting that bribe? Oh, wait. My mistake. He’s a Democrat.
So where are all of the people who screamed about Dick Cheney and his former ties to a defense contractor. All I hear are crickets chirping from that gallery. No surprise there either.