"Anti-Union ALEC Group Holds a Rally, No One Shows Up"

[applegrove]

Anti-Union ALEC Group Holds a Rally, No One Shows Up

FUSE, Together for Progress

http://fusewashington.org/anti-union_alec_group_holds_a_rally_no_one_shows_up/

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The Freedom Foundation is a far-right organization in Washington that helped write the ALEC toolkit for other states. They are funded by big corporations like Walmart and shadowy conservative foundations from out of state. Since former BIAW leader Tom McCabe took over as their CEO in November, the Freedom Foundation has shifted to focusing on an even more extreme anti-union agenda. As McCabe put it in his New Year's Eve fundraising email:

"if we want to drive our state down the road to freedom, you can bet we're going to leave tire tracks on the backs of some union bosses. Metaphorically speaking, of course."


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This amusingly pathetic rally is just the latest evidence that the conservative groups responsible for attacks on working people have no public support. Despite the Freedom Foundation's angry rhetoric, Washington state has a long history of supporting working people and their right to dignity, respect, and economic success through organizing. From general strikes during the Great Depression and farm worker organizing in the 1960s to Seattle's historic $15 minimum wage this year, Washington has been a leader in supporting working people. In fact, Washington has the fourth highest rate of organized workers in the country.

We could go on and on, but really, the picture above tells you how little grassroots support the Freedom Foundation has for its anti-worker agenda. The real drive behind the Freedom Foundation's screaming in a vacuum are the powerful corporations that care more about protecting their tax loopholes than supporting working people. Though five conservative members of the Supreme Court may disagree, those corporations aren't actually people, and they'll never show up to your sparsely-populated rally.




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[senseandsensibility]

1. I'm dying here!

[msongs]

2. ALEC is massively successful behind closed doors, it cares little for PR stunts like this nt

[applegrove]

3. I know. I sometimes want to laugh at their highjinx but it is really sad

that these waste of humanity organizations are running around causing mayhem. We have it here in Canada a little bit too.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. Exactly, msongs,

Like sex is supposed to be dirty and behind closed doors.

ALEC: Born 40 yrs. ago, punishment for Roe v. Wade.

I can't wait for the last nail in your coffin, ALEC.

[Ken Burch]

4. Gee...that was smart, ALEC. n/t.

[Cha]

5. Hate the Workers.. love the fucking 1%.. they weren't motivated enough?!

mahalo applegrove~

[muntrv]

6. The morons didn't fan out to inflate their numbers.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. This makes my Saturday night live. eom

[NBachers]

9. Not even twenty- and the guy with the big camera and his buddy look like media.

All they need is for someone to show up and cut the grass with a gas lawn mower.

[Populist_Prole]

10. They're so desperate they're just running down the list of GOP talking points

Hoping one or more will resonate.

Hard to believe they're putting so many eggs in the anti-labor basket in this climate of worsening inequality. They're so power drunk on the "southern strategy" of race, god and guns they've completely flipped their lids and live in that parallel universe.

Another example: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025359482

Rampant wingnuttery notwithstanding, it'll come down on them like a ton of bricks. Then they'll get even nastier. Then their tent will shrink. Then they'll get nastier yet. Then.......

[Unrepentant Fenian]

11. I have never understood...

I have never understood why conservatives, who take pride in being "just blue collar folks" always bow down to corporate America and loudly ALWAYS vote against their own best interest. Can they possibly, really be that stupid?

[Gothmog]

12. ALEC has lost credibility but still has influence

ALEC is responsible for most of the voter id laws in effect right now. Sunshine has hurt ALEC's operations.

The story in the OP makes me smile.