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2016 Postmortem

BlueCaliDem

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5. Your guess is as good as mine. Perhaps they'd been paid off? Perhaps they were promised lower

Reply to busterbrown (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 5, 2014, 02:04 PM

Nov 2014

premiums for their members while the SEIU can pocket the difference for some extra cash? I really don't know.

How is it possible that a labor union would side with For-Profit Insurance companies? OTOH, it does help explain why President Obama stopped touting the Public Option during the loooooong public health care reform debate. Unions, apparently, are not always workers' friends, and this action by the SEIU (MY SEIU, for chrissakes!) supporting Prop 45 underscores it for me.

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Economy the # 1 issue.. Bullshit.. It’s Fear [View all] busterbrown Nov 2014 OP

That Ebola scare terror put the election over the top for them. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2014 #1

It's almost impossible for me to believe that busterbrown Nov 2014 #3

Watch out for that Ebola carrying man in the Whitehouse., he's trying to give you EBOLA! Dont call me Shirley Nov 2014 #6

M$NBC played their role too, no better than CNN/Fox. Dawson Leery Nov 2014 #7

Media is the gops big lie tool. I quit watching a long time ago, even msnbc. Dont call me Shirley Nov 2014 #8

Fear is the Number 1 motivating factor for Americans to side with you. BlueCaliDem Nov 2014 #2

Thank you so fucking much... Seriously.. busterbrown Nov 2014 #4

Your guess is as good as mine. Perhaps they'd been paid off? Perhaps they were promised lower BlueCaliDem Nov 2014 #5

Well when they came out with their recommendations what was their explanation. busterbrown Nov 2014 #10

Their "recommendation" or excuse was that Prop 45 would damage ObamaCare. BlueCaliDem Nov 2014 #11

Did you ask them How.. I followed the 45 battle and I still don’t know how it could .. busterbrown Nov 2014 #14

The whole notion of it hurting Obama Care was a lie. truedelphi Nov 2014 #17

Still trying to figure why SEIU told their members to vote against it... busterbrown Nov 2014 #18

You have heard of Jimmy Hoffa, right? truedelphi Nov 2014 #19

Yea, Yea.. busterbrown Nov 2014 #20

we have nothing to fear somebody-else Nov 2014 #9

Bingo! eom BlueCaliDem Nov 2014 #12

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No one saying it isn’t. busterbrown Nov 2014 #15

You have to also consider that many people don't vote - truedelphi Nov 2014 #16