I was among the party elite last night, Kathleen Kennedy (Townsend) learned something about Bobby

[Omaha Steve]

This is my last post of the day. I need some time to myself. I had to euthanize my cat today: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=243x33440



Several from D.C. stopped by the Omaha Fire Fighters Union hall too.

The event:

March Special Event - Get your tickets now
March 11th - Firefighters Union Hall

On Tuesday, March 11, 2008, Catholic Democrats of Nebraska will welcome Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to Omaha. Kathleen will appear at the Firefighters Union Hall at 6005 Grover St. in Omaha at 6:30PM. Tickets to the event are $25.00. Anyone is welcome to the event. Food, draught beer and soft drinks will be available for no charge. (See below to order tickets to the event).

Kathleen, the eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy and the former Lt. Governor of Maryland, will give a presentation titled Failing America's Faithful: How America's Churches Are Mixing God With Politics and Losing Their Way, based on her book of the same title that was released earlier this year.



http://www.catholicdemocratsofnebraska.org/

I had a wonderful time even though I'm Presbyterian. Jim Begley talked about how the Catholic vote went for W in 00 & 04. He talked of the need of Catholics coming back to the D column.

State Senator Tom White talked of how on the floor of the Legislature this past Monday, four Catholic Democrats and a few others chastised the Republican Governor and his party for failing to fix problems at the Beatrice State Developmental Center.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10280122

Kathleen was the featured speaker. She knows how to motivate. Kathleen was presented with a photo of her Dad taken the day he won the Nebraska Primary in 68. It was a huge upset.

Afterward I got to talk one on one with her. I told her something about her father Bobby she didn't know. In late '62 Bobby suggested a young lawyer in the Labor Dept. for a spot on the NLRB. That name was Howard Jenkins, Jr. Washington was shocked. This was a Republican. He was also black. No black was ever on the NLRB board before. Twenty years after Bobby's suggestion, one of the last opinions written by Member Jenkins was brilliant. Of the 3 members that heard my case, he was the deciding vote. It stood the test of the Court of Appeals in St. Louis. I wanted Kathleen to see the way her father helped me 14 years after we lost him. She wrote it all down and thanked me for the info. I also got her autograph.

I'm a bit off tonight, but wanted to post this ASAP.

My case: http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Board%20Decisions/261/261-38.pdf

Info on Mr NLRB: http://www.law.du.edu/jenkins/Chapter5.htm & http://www.penlib.du.edu/About/collections/SpecialCollections/jenkins/

NLRB past board members: http://www.nlrb.gov/About_Us/Overview/board/board_members_since_1935.aspx

[LisaM]

1. Thanks, and I'm terribly sorry about your cat. n/t

[gerrilea]

2. My prayers are with you and your cat...God Bless!

[aquart]

3. I'm sorry about your cat.

He was loved right to the very end and knew it, didn't he?

Hope a new one follows you home.

[Hekate]

4. Thanks. Condolences on your cat. And...I hate to point this out but "Bobbi" is a girl's nickname...

Robert Kennedy used to be called "Bobby."

Hekate

[Omaha Steve]

5. Opps

Was thinking of my Daughter and Granddaughters

[grannylib]

6. I am so sorry to hear about your cat...

[Subdivisions]

7. Sorry about your cat, dude. That's pretty

cool about meeting Kathleen Kennedy. Even cooler that Bobby touched your life so many years later. I can say that, out of all of the government, my best experience has been with the NRLB. Back in 1997, I was working for a small but booming sheet metal company. One day during lunch, we were paid a visit by a union recruiter. We were afraid to talk to him on the jobsite so we arranged to have him come and tell us all about it on Saturday, our day off, at my co-worker and best friend's home.

Long story short, the foreman on my jobsite asked me if I attended the meeting on Saturday and I said that I had and that he should've come. All he had was a foreman position in a company that had only 8 employees and he didn't make any extra money for it. But, he took the ass-licker way out and when the big boss (the owner) called for his morning report, I could hear my foreman's side of the conversation and I just knew the boss was asking if I was at the meeting and me foreman was telling him that I was there. When he hung up the phone, foreman tells me "Sorry to have to do this, but we've gotta let you go."

I reported the whole thing to the NRLB and, before you know it, that little sheet metal company had to pay me nearly $10,000 in back pay from the time I was fired until my transition into the union was complete, which doubled my hourly pay overnight.

[petersjo02]

8. So sorry about your kitty, Steve

They capture our hearts and rip them out when they leave us far too soon.

[Kat45]

9. I'm so sorry about your cat.

That's nice that you got to talk to Kathleen Kennedy. I didn't know the Catholic Democrats had a group in Nebraska. I know the head of that organization; he's a good guy.

[shireen]

10. my condolences to you

I'm so sorry you lost your little buddy.


:hug:

[EFerrari]

11. I'm sorry, Steve. I'm looking at having to do the same in

the next few days.

:hug: