Emails Show National Union Official Provided Wisconsin Senate Democrats With Their Talking Points…
You mean Democrats are nothing but hand puppets for the unions? Shocked, completely shocked I tell you!
Madison — The same day Senate Democrats left the state to boycott a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining bill, a union official from Washington, D.C., provided the Democrats’ leader with talking points.
Emails released by the office of Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D-Monona) show how Democratic senators sought to explain their unusual action to drive to Illinois to block a vote on Walker’s measure, which would end most collective bargaining by public employee unions. The measure ultimately passed the Legislature but is now facing legal challenges.
One of people offering suggestions to Senate Democrats was Blaine Rummel, a spokesperson from the national office of the public workers union AFSCME, also known as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Rummel sent an email marked “TPs,” for talking points, to Miller spokesman Mike Browne late in the evening of Feb. 17 after Senate Democrats had crossed the state line that morning.
Also that day, Rummel had helped coordinate AFSCME’s opposition to the bill in Wisconsin, speaking to media outlets like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Rummel sent the talking points to the personal email of Miller spokesman Mike Browne, but the email turned up in an open records request by the Journal Sentinel because it was forwarded on to Miller’s official email account.
“We’re on the job. The fact is, Wisconsin legislators are sworn to protect people’s rights, not take them away. And we are fulfilling our oath,” one of the talking points reads.
Browne said that exchanges like that one were meant to share what different opponents to Walker’s bill were saying publicly. He noted that Senate Democrats were already making similar comments to outlets like the Journal Sentinel prior to receiving the email from Rummel.
HT: David D.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 12:33 pm | 
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And where did the unions get the talking points from?
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It’s not just Wisconsin: a nationwide counteroffensive is emerging – People’s World Weekly (CPUSA)
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This is a moment of heightened class and democratic struggle. The signs are everywhere – not least in states in the nation’s heartland. It isn’t a time for the fainthearted.
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If successful, it would leave the organized section of the working class, the main social force combating right-wing extremism, a badly weakened actor in U.S. politics and society.
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As we dig into today’s struggles, it’s not too early to be thinking about what has to be done to defeat right-wing extremism at the polls next year.
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Who knew the fleebaggers were “Extreme” hand puppets? :p
“You mean Democrats are nothing but hand puppets?”
The same can be said about Sarah Palin, to be fair.
They actually needed coaching to come up with this crap? It was too tricky to write on their own?
I’m sure there are hidden subtleties and meanings in these talking points which can only be appreciated by the meat headed unionists and are not apparent to me.
gastorgrab says:
April 5, 2011 at 12:41 pm
And where did the unions get the talking points from?
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“It’s not just Wisconsin: a nationwide counteroffensive is emerging – People’s World Weekly (CPUSA)
h__p://peoplesworld.org/it-s-not-just-wisconsin-a-nationwide-counteroffensive-is-emerging/
…If successful, it would leave the organized section of the working class, the main social force combating right-wing extremism, a badly weakened actor in U.S. politics and society….
As we dig into today’s struggles, it’s not too early to be thinking about what has to be done to defeat right-wing extremism at the polls next year.”
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“Right wing extremeism” where have I heard that recently beside this Communist Party site? Oh yeah, from DemonRATS Schumer and Boxer.
It’s almost like the RATS and the Commies have the same Propaganda, the same agenda, and the same methods. Hmm…, maybe they’re the same Party.
Union leader writes Democrat talking points
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
If I only had a brain….a heart….a home….’da noiv’!
deez says:
April 5, 2011 at 1:00 pm
“You mean Democrats are nothing but hand puppets?”
The same can be said about Sarah Palin, to be fair.
Are you on drugs? Talk about parroting talking points. The GOP Establishment doesn’t even want to associate with Palin because they know she’s not into being a “good ol’ boy.” You failed, deezy.
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Heck, yeah, the dems says whatever the union tells ‘em too; they wouldn’t be there if it weren’t for the union (AKA thug) vote.
Democrat = CPUSA. Have been one in the same since early 1900′s.
“We’re on the job. The fact is, Wisconsin legislators are sworn to protect people’s rights, not take them away. And we are fulfilling our oath,”
You mean “…..to protect UNION peoples rights.” Screw the taxpayers. Lets stop hearing what they say and listen to what their telling us.
You just figured this out ? Go back to sleep.
Bought and paid for (with our taxes)