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Topic: Labor leaders set to meet with Obama Tuesday |
Labor leaders set to meet with Obama Tuesday
Politico, by Carrie Budoff Brown
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Posted By:earlybird, 11/13/2012 9:53:49 AM
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| A White House official has confirmed POLITICO’s list of CEOs scheduled to attend a meeting Wednesday with President Barack Obama on the fiscal cliff, and sent over the list of union and progressive leaders who will sit down with him Tuesday: •Mary Kay Henry, SEIU •Lee Saunders, AFSCME •Dennis Van Roekel, NEA •Rich Trumka, AFL-CIO •Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress •John Podesta, Center for American Progress
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Comments: Read on. The list is longer. The article, very short.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
tennman, 11/13/2012 9:58:01 AM (No. 9010996)
Scarier than the labor leaders are the business leaders invited. All Obama croney capitalists.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pineledger, 11/13/2012 9:59:13 AM (No. 9011001)
For what? They´re already in bed together.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Not your typical New Yorker, 11/13/2012 10:02:34 AM (No. 9011019)
All going in for their pats on the head...goood boy no-neck Trumka, goood boy, SIT!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
horacer, 11/13/2012 10:03:48 AM (No. 9011025)
I googled a couple of the names I was unfamiliar with. I wish I hadn´t. Quite a rogues gallery of community activists and extreme lefties.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tonyl, 11/13/2012 10:07:35 AM (No. 9011043)
Labor leaders there to collect their re-election fee.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird, 11/13/2012 10:13:20 AM (No. 9011071)
More interesting are the "progressive" leaders. Center for American Progress (it has funding from George Soros). MoveOn (ditto). Center for Community Change - see mission statement - pure Alinsky:
Our Mission
The mission of the Center for Community Change is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to have a significant impact in improving their communities and the policies and institutions that affect their lives.
The Center for Community Change strengthens, connects and mobilizes grassroots groups to enhance their leadership, voice and power. We believe that vibrant community-based organizations, led by the people most affected by social and economic injustice, are key to putting an end to the failed "on your own" mentality of the right and building a new politics based on community values.
Founded in 1968 to honor the life and values of Robert F. Kennedy, the Center is one of the longest-standing champions for low-income people and communities of color. Together, our expert staff and dynamic partners confront the vital issues of today and build the social movements of tomorrow.
http://www.communitychange.org/page/about
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
country boy, 11/13/2012 10:15:12 AM (No. 9011079)
The leaders of the Gimmie crowd having a meeting to discuss how we should give more to them.
Where´s a rogue meteor when you need one?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
redmom, 11/13/2012 10:17:41 AM (No. 9011089)
Well, that will stop the hemorrhaging of our economy, and steer us clear of the fiscal cliff. s/o
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 11/13/2012 11:03:43 AM (No. 9011258)
Card check maybe? Or how else they can screw us one more time?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RIsailor, 11/13/2012 11:54:22 AM (No. 9011425)
These union heads and left wing non-think tankers just collect dough from wealthy lefties and CLAIM to help and speak for their members and "the poor", generally feel good about themselves, but other than get guys like Obama elected. provide little or no value to our country or its citizens.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/13/2012 12:00:00 PM (No. 9011451)
Comon, finish the sentence..."to plot their next illegal takeover deal!"
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
birddog, 11/13/2012 12:57:10 PM (No. 9011585)
Wish list being delivered to Santa...prior to his first meeting with congress or "availability" session with the press.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 11/13/2012 1:06:33 PM (No. 9011601)
The big ´thank you´ party.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
roger h. cook,MD, 11/13/2012 1:10:48 PM (No. 9011611)
These are the commie leaders of the unions they are the more equal ones who will be telling Obama what to do and to whom.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
wtm, 11/13/2012 1:15:02 PM (No. 9011620)
The demand for "Stimulus 2013" to payback all those that helped re-elect Obama !!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
janylou, 11/13/2012 1:15:13 PM (No. 9011621)
A gather of illeagles.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
John21, 11/13/2012 2:45:37 PM (No. 9011782)
What else did you expect it is time for them to submit the bills for supporting an incompetent admistration.
The media will do it quietly but propaganda public relations are expensive.
Mr. Obama of course will provide all the taxpayer funding that they demand. It is the only way that he can keep his friends.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 11/13/2012 7:31:02 PM (No. 9012374)
If you take the trouble to click on the link you´ll see a list of representatives of some fairly heavy-duty Alinskyite organizations, who are intent on getting the downtrodden and disaffected in our society to band together into a grass roots organization and hold the rest of our heads under water.
This is an attempt on Obie´s part to officially start a movement across the country. Astroturfers for redistribution of other people´s wealth.
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