Harry Reid’s going to make it a LONG HOT summer…

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.lvtsg.com/imho/2010/03/harry-reids-going-to-make-it-a-long-hot-summer/

Note from Kensei: I am only posting this trash talk in the interest of being fair to both sides of the aisle. Although I have not come out in support of any candidate for U.S. Senate – it is painfully obvious from reading the following press release that Senator Reid is under extreme pressure from Sue Lowden – so much so that he feels that he must say or do anything to discredit her. I found this press release extremely distasteful, written by a wordsmith of the first order, packed with innuendos and half-truths. Not to worry though – I will be pointing out these issue in the next few days. Sadly, if Senator Reid is this worried now – at THIS stage of the election, and is stooping to this kind of trash talk now…it looks like we’re going to be in for a LONG HOT summer!


Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)

Sue Lowden’s Disgraceful Health Care Record
From Harry Reid

This morning during a radio interview, Sue Lowden said, “I agree that if you have a job, you have health insurance or can afford health insurance.”

The part she omitted… “except if you work for me.”

Lowden Paid her Workers So Poorly, They Couldn’t Afford Health Insurance and Had to Put Their Children on Medicaid

Testimony Before the National Gaming Impact Study Commission Revealed Lowden’s Policies Denied Employee Coverage, Forced Children onto Medicaid. In testimony before the NGISC meeting in Las Vegas on November 10, 1998, a Lowden employee at the Santa Fe testified regarding the wages and benefits available to its employees. According to the testimony of Juan Salazar, the health care Lowden offered employees made it impossible for himself and his wife to afford any coverage at all and forced their 4 childred onto Medicaid, “At the Santa Fe I only make 5.25 an hour and the medical plan that the Santa Fe offers is so expensive that I have my children on Medicaid. My wife and I don’t have any medical plans and there is no pension plan.”

Lowden Illegally Forced Her Employees To Give Up Their Health Insurance

Lowden’s Company Admitted To Requiring Employees To Sign Documents Waiving Their Benefits. In a decision which found Santa Fe Hotel Inc guilty of several violations of the National Labor Relations Act, an Administrative Law Judge Wrote, “Respondent admits that, in or about May 1995, it bypassed the Unions and dealt directly with its buffet department servers, who are bargaining unit employees, by requiring them to sign a document waiving their right to receive employee benefits.”

Lowden’s Company Was Later Ordered To Give No Effect To Benefits Waivers. In the Administrative Law Judge’s ruling on case 28-CA-13367, Santa Fe Hotel, Inc was ordered to “Give no effect to any waivers of employment benefits executed by buffet department servers and make whole, with interest, each of said employees, who executed such a waiver of benefits, for any losses he or she may have suffered in the manner set forth in the Remedy section herein.”

Lowden Illegally Cut Her Workers’ Hours to Deny Them Health Insurance

FULL story at link.

[mitchtv]

1. Distasteful?

What kind of scumbag wrote it?