AFL-CIO Looking to Launch Super PAC to Boost Influence
- Posted on August 22, 2011 at 12:51pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The AFL-CIO hopes to boost its clout by launching a new political action committee that could raise unlimited amounts of money.
The move to form a labor super PAC is part of the federation’s goal to build a year-round political organizing structure instead of ramping up and down based on election cycles.
It would also help steer more of labor’s money to state legislative battles, where unions have been battling efforts to curb union rights in states like Wisconsin and Ohio.
Labor leaders say the idea remains subject to final approval over the next few weeks.
More than 100 super PACs have sprouted since a landmark 2010 Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations and unions to spend unlimited cash in support of, or against, political candidates.
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gypsyd
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 12:37amUnions stealing from their members to promote their own political agenda. This should be illegal. Unions are already the worst kind of punks and thugs, feeding off their members and their hard work while raking in millions in dues.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 9:35pmI seem to remember reading that the pension funds of most unions are underfunded. Is this why? Why are union members not demanding that the union leadership quit playing politics and do the jobs they were elected to do! Oh, I forgot. There is no such thing as an honest election in the unions. You cannot vote to replace any sitting union official. Well, you can vote to but it won’t matter. As Stalin said, “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Report Post »slordax
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 7:56pmevery dollar spent on political candidates and lobbyists, is another pension dollar lost … take heed members, your union leaders are spending your “money” like it wasn’t yours …. pretty soon, your union dues will go up while your benefits go down ….
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 5:16amUNIONS = EVIL. The union thugs have taken over too many areas of working places. The worst thing they do besides incite riots is to support political figures we’d never vote for on our own. Do you people really want your dues going to these people harming the United States?
Report Post »StopGovtBondage
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 7:25pmRemember – AFL CIO boss, Dick Trumka braggs that he talks to White House daily and goes to White House to meet with senior people every week…..Trumka was one of the first people Obama met with personally the day after the debt ceiling deal was settled.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:26pmWhy aren’t unions supporting, rather than demonizing job creators? Because THEY want to be the above all and end all over American workers and ALL Americans in general. Be afraid- Very afraid!
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:11pmunion member are like crack addicts , all they do is take…and when they cant get more they get violent…sucks to be them…unions are societys cancers…we must cut them out!
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:03pmWatch out union workers..your dues are about to go up…Obama needs more money
Report Post »Mammabear3
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:36pmA friend of mine had one of these d.b.s knock on his door and he laughed in his face. That should be everyone’s response to this desperate, communistic nonsense.
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 8:46amhad one knock on my door. as soon as she showed me her petiton and she was affliatted with the afl-cio the next two sounds she heard were me saying NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, and the door slamming
Report Post »bigglesworth
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:32pmOne of the items the GOP should have fought for during the debt ceiling debate was an end to collective bargaining rights and prevailing wage laws. This action alone would have shutdown the far-left’s radical agenda within two years (my opinion, of course).
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:22pmOh Goodie ! An Anti Jobs Super Pac……..
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:04pmAfter speaking with a neighbor yesterday (who is a union worker), I realized how brainwashed many of these folks are.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:47pmKnow a member of ther auto workers union, who is retired, that brags and laughs about how the union bought Obama and he bailed out GM and Chrysler and now the government pays their pensions and health insurance.
Report Post »This guy is a rabid union man and woe be to anyone who says anything badf about the union or OBAMA.
CS_GUY
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:05pmYour absolutely right!
Report Post »If investigated,which won’t happen under Obama, 90% of their planned activities full under the RICO act. Simply the countries largest criminal enterprise and decent people turn their eyes away because their afraid. Racketeering at its finest and most streamline.
Jim in Houston
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:39pmAFL-CIO = All Frigging Losers – Communists Intimidating Others
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 5:20pmvery well put
Report Post »usmc1063
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 6:55pmI love it because it’s the truth.
Report Post »matinva
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:37pmUnions make up but a tiny fraction of the workforce in this country and they’ve been extorting money from their members and the public for far too long. Time to stop the tail from wagging the dog any longer. They make headway in negotiations because they scream louder than anyone else. Insert ear plugs and vote them out.
Report Post »chickster
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:25pmI don’t know… if I was union and i’m sitting on the bench with no work in sight and they are spending my dues that way. I’d have to think twice.
Report Post »MUDFLAPS
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:18pmJust say NO to unions!
Report Post »Xpat48
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:03pmNo need to worry about these jokers.
All are on crack, drunk, meth, or sniffing air-plane glue. Very low I.Q. Dirty, fat, smell, fat, beer gut, just your all around looser. To dumb to do anything right.
Probably beat wife & kids, have police record, you name it.
Probably quite a bit of inter-family breeding leading to genetic deficient children. ie. Toe-headed, downs syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome, drug addiction, ect, ect, ect,……………”.ect.
Report Post »astralmind1
Posted on August 23, 2011 at 8:34amYou are about as ignorant as they come. I have a wife, three kids, a college education, a full time job as a project manager, a part time job as an instructor, and go to school part time. I don’t abuse drugs or my family. My union affiliates don’t fit your description either. Don’t get caught up in the b/s stereotype that the movies have portrayed you dimwitted moron.
Report Post »AzCowboy
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:01pmWecome to The United States Of Omerica…
Report Post »jH..
amsmith41974
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:58pmIsn’t this why Colbert formed his own PAC? Shark bump to test the ability of unions or anyone for that matter, to form a committee to raise money to support ideologies.
Report Post »bruce_baker
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:42pmAnd why not? The 17th Amendment lets them buy government influence wholesale, just as it does for Republicans. This is America. We have the best government money CAN buy!
Let’s get back to a constitutional republic. Repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:38pmUnions bloodsucker’s of those that want to work. They need to be shut down and leaders tried for their crimes.
Report Post »shilde58
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:18pmAmen to that…along with the Thugs at SEIU and those in Obama’s administration with ties, oh wait a minute that would be everyone in his administration along with Obama. Yeah, throw the crooks in jail for treason against the US
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:29pmEvery union can get together and we still outnumber them by about 300 to 1.
Report Post »Mrtoohappy
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:24pmI’ve always sad Unions have no right giving union money to political candidates. In doing that they are taking a members money that my not like that candidates. If I was a member I would not want my dues to a cadidate of not my choice. I get sick to think if I was in a union and my dues had gone to Obama in 08.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:19pmTurn your backs on these evil entities.. turn your backs on those who proclaim these institutions to be for the good of man.. they are nothing more than the devils tool. God help us!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:33pmLOL thanks for clearing that up.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:10pmGood for them…that way they can just purchase votes.
Report Post »jkendal
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:17pmI see the influence of unions declining – no matter how much money they spend, it won‘t do much good because Americans are increasingly becoming aware of the deomcRAT political racket they’ve become.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 3:20pmBF: they have been buying votes a long time. They are finally admitting to it.
Report Post »azjeff1963
Posted on August 22, 2011 at 4:16pmwe need to boycott all there products…buy American But dont buy union.
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