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Galraedia

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Thu Apr 5, 2012, 11:33 PM Apr 2012

Rep. Darrell Issa drags Robert F. Kennedy into his war on workers

If you went to a site called "Protecting Our Workers" and the first thing you saw was a huge picture of Robert F. Kennedy, quoting him that "The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society," what would you assume about that site? Unless you've seen the site, your answer was probably not "it's an anti-union website put up by Republican House Oversight Committee Chair Darrell Issa."

Yes, Issa has put together a spectacularly disingenuous site completely aimed at attacking unions that leads off with Bobby Kennedy and uses the word "union" only once on its front page (in claiming a desire to work with union leaders), speaking instead in sweeping terms of freedom and liberty and decrying partisanship. But really it's an attack on union political spending—part of the larger Republican campaign to bankrupt unions or at least to prevent them from spending money to elect candidates who will every so often cast votes that help working people ... Democrats, in other words.

Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/05/1080889/-Rep-Darrell-Issa-drags-Robert-F-Kennedy-into-his-war-on-workers

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freshwest

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1. This is likely why the King family has copyrighted what MLK said. To not be used by his enemies.
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 11:43 PM
Apr 2012

This is utterly disgusting, but typical of the Rethuglicans. If DUers can post comments there, they should.

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