When I was in my early twenties I worked in a tanning bed factory. The factory wasn’t unionized and I saw some terrible stuff. There wasn’t sick time and the pay was low.
I saw coworkers injured on the job. One stapled her finger to a tanning bed. Another inhaled fumes from the adhesive and passed out. They were sent home for the rest of the day without pay, and told to show up the next day or risk losing their job.
I’ve also been a union teacher and a proud member of Education Minnesota. I’ve seen the difference a union makes: quality and affordable healthcare, sustainable hours, a livable wage, and so much more.
I’ve been proud to stand with working people in Congress, and I’ll stand with Minnesota’s working families as governor.
This election is critical for the future of collective bargaining and the right to organize in our state, and I’m asking you to stand with me today. [...] As governor, I want to be the organizer-in-chief. We need to strengthen the right to collectively bargain in our state and grow the middle class. I’ll fight back against right to work legislation, and expand opportunities for workers to organize.
I’m proud of the tens of thousands of union members who have signed on to this campaign and the dozen labor unions that have endorsed Peggy and me.
We’ll keep fighting, and I hope you’ll join us.
Well, as to endorsements, the nurses and communication workers are close allies of Our Revolution, which endorsed both Rebecca Otto and Erin Murphy. I stay with the wisdom of the most progressive within the State's population. But if Walz is endorsed, staying with the most progressive choice will then be Walz.
Can you imagine Jeff Johnson or
Do-as-told Tim would tell the next secret donor enclave of the unfortunate co-round table banker who at lunch spilled the last of three martinis on his expensive suit and was so distressed he went home because of that and the fact he'd fired the guy who'd been tasked with upkeep of the guard Doberman kennels for having gotten sick, and the illegal immigrant hired to replace that person spoke Spanish as his first language and might not work out either. And atop that, as-told Tim would bemoan the downright saddening truth of difficulty in finding the right people to crew a yacht.
Trouble along the Potomac would be what could get as-told Tim to cry.
Union Tim Walz, has more substance and every intermediate-affluence person at risk needs to ask, is the banker on the other side of the mortgage or the student loan more my friend more than the union member supporting a fifteen buck minimum wage which will boost consumer spending and money circulation forming the bedrock of small business prosperity? Do-as-told Tim would likely think it a fine day to see your loan somehow forced into a renegotiation to a higher interest rate. How in as-told Tim's world zero sum games should work out.
The man's Potomac friendship liklihoods and his core Unalloter smallness of character and personality would be forecast to aim always to not ever appear to bite the hand that fed him so extravagantly for his several years in DC. Recall that before that he dropped at a distance away from Romney's show, and got the bank lobbying job as reward for services in office and for stepping aside. Demonstrable character shown the right people, that way.
If between the banker and the union man in prosperity, wonder about that tax cut and how it steepens the hill your prosperity is sliding down while the house at the top of the hill is lavishly redecorated, spare no expense, rosewood being nicer than pine.
Opinions can differ.
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While with morning coffee email was opened first, and this post believed proper, looking at Strib's homepage; this item from the news outlet owned by former Republican legislator Glen Taylor, and hence no tool of neo-communism or in tune with any such nonsense claims:
In 2012, when Pawlenty took the job of CEO for a Wall Street trade association called the Financial Services Roundtable, more than a quarter of all American homeowners were still “underwater,” meaning they owed more on their home than it was worth. Millions more had already lost jobs and homes in the four years since the financial panic of 2008, which economists and government investigators blamed on reckless mortgage lending and Wall Street’s unsound trading practices.
Pawlenty earned more than $10 million in a little over five years in the job, which he left in March. Now, the Republican faces scrutiny of his tenure at Financial Services Roundtable (FSR), which fought aggressively against financial regulations that the industry deems too burdensome. Pawlenty’s opponents in both parties are already making political fodder of his time in the job.
“[Pawlenty’s] lobbying will be yet another thing he’ll be on the defensive about in this race, and it’s clear Republicans have a much better chance without all that baggage,” said Jeff Johnson, Hennepin County commissioner and Pawlenty’s chief competitor for the GOP nomination.
Wall Street’s progressive critics, who battled Pawlenty in Washington for years, are eager to discuss issues like the safety of the nation’s financial system; lax privacy laws that led to fiascos like the Equifax breach of the personal information of millions of Americans; and Wall Street’s efforts to prevent customers from suing them.
“Across party and regional lines, most people think Wall Street has too much influence in Washington. And they think that because it does,” said Lisa Donner, executive director of Americans for Financial Reform, a consortium of labor unions, consumer groups, liberal think tanks and organizations like AARP.
Pawlenty declined an interview request to talk about his time in the FSR job.
[italics empahsis added] "... in both parties ..." is interesting language. Most Republicans likely make monthly mortgage payments and feel the hurt felt more by those less affluent than most Republicans. With that big pay bonanza Pawlenty got, he suffers less than rank and file GOP voters, especially those within the Tea Party faction. Freedom Club self congratulating elite, they probably either love the bankers, or are the bankers; a diverse membership, that way.