Big Ed is going off about the VW vote.

[Brigid]

I knew it. He is so disgusted he is almost literally sputtering. I would love to check his blood pressure right now.

[Harmony Blue]

1. Educating the public has to be the first step

any action before this is accomplished is futile IMO.

[senseandsensibility]

2. United Obama Workers

One of the scare tactics used to sway the vote. I appreciate the way Ed is interviewing actual workers, as well.

[B Calm]

3. So did Thom Hartmann. On Hartmann they were talking about the NLRB

possibility of overturning the UAW vote. Proving the vote was influenced by the Governor!

[senseandsensibility]

5. That sounds good, but the President of UAW was just on Ed (seconds ago)

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and did not bite when Ed suggested that the Governor needs to be investigated. I was a little disappointed by his response, frankly.

[former9thward]

8. Maybe because he knows the law.

There was no law broken. Please cite it if you think there was.

[senseandsensibility]

9. I edited my post to be more

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specific. I'm not a lawyer and didn't claim to know personally whether Corker violated any laws. However, the situation should be investigated, and the UAW President didn't seem too eager to even do that.

[Logical]

4. The Ohio Honda plant has voted again unionizing many times. n-t

[Brigid]

6. Corker has it backwards.

He thinks the VW workers work for him. It's the other way around -- he works for them. They need to remember who threatened them and who was against them next time he's up for re-election. Democrats need to slam him for this. I think an ethics investigation needs to be launched.

[Fumesucker]

7. In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master. n/t