1. Card check, please. The business lobby is pushing back against labor. Republican pollster John McLaughlin is distributing data that he says shows that labor union support for "card check" elections could hurt Democratic candidates in the fall and help Republican incumbents.
Here's how he asked the question:
If an election were held to decide whether workers would organize a union, which one of the following types of elections is the best way to protect the individual rights of workers? Having a process where a union is organized if a majority of workers simply sign a card and the workers’ signatures are made public to their employer, the union organizers and their co-workers. OR, having a federally supervised secret and private ballot election where workers privately vote yes or no on whether to authorize union representation.
More than seven of ten votes in Maine, Minnesota and Colorado favor the secret election, although the wording of the question's preamble -- "best way to protect the individual rights of workers" is a bit loaded.
McLaughlin conducted the survey for the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, a corporate group opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act, a major priority for labor unions.
Wonky side note: McLaughlin, who worked for Sen. Fred Thompson's presidential campaign, is teaming with ex-Thompson communicatons director Todd Harris on the Coalition's behalf.
Polling side note: McLaughlin's poll has Democrat Mark Udall leading by 12 points over Republican Bob Schaffer, while Sen. Norm Coleman (R) leads by six points over Al Franken (D) in Minnesota, and Sen. Susan Collins (R) has a double-digit lead over Rep. Tom Allen (D)
2. Harold Ickes confirms that Rev. Jeremiah Wright comes up in his conversations with superdelegates. ..... Howard Dean still has July 1 as the target date for the 330 undecided superdelegates to have decided. But note the sense of urgency in his voice:
3. AFSCME president Gerry McEntee is vouching for Hillary Clinton on NAFTA. Said he today, according to CBS News's Fernando Suarez: "“I know that she spoke against it, she opposed it,” McAtee said about NAFTA.
“Maybe she does not even remember this,” McAtee continued, “The day that they got the votes, Hillary Clinton called me and I was in California at a union meeting. She said, and this really sums it up, she said ‘We lost. We lost, the votes were there for NAFTA.’ So anybody who tries to hang it around her neck, is hanging it around the wrong neck.”
4. The AFT's political action committee is airing a radio ad in Pennsylvania on behalf of Clinton. It's called "Fighter," and it features testimonials to Clinton's resiliance. ... Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO), a Clinton superdelegate, believes that Barack Obama is likely to win the nomination.....
5. Madame Secretary! Sec/State Condoleezza Rice gives workout tips in the April issue of Fitness magazine. Here are some pics...
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March 31, 2008
Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.
The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
"Because she was a liar," Zeifman said in an interview last week. "She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality." . . .
...Zeifman says that Hillary, along with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception....
The brief was so fraudulent and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.
...Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary Rodham would be of interest to anyone 34 years later.
But they show that the pattern of lies, deceit, fabrications and unethical behavior was established long ago – long before the Bosnia lie, and indeed, even before cattle futures, Travelgate and Whitewater – for the woman who is still asking us to make her president of the United States.
Read the full story here:
http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm
Posted by An Old Liar | April 1, 2008 5:19 PM