Democratic Party Chairman Challenges Local Republicans On Their Silence On Common Construction Wage And RFRA

1. It was nice to have an alternative to the C&P for a short time, but this blog has now become nothing more than the Pravda for the local liberals. One can only surmise any notion of impartiality has been summarily discarded in favor of campaign releases being posted as “breaking news”. It seems like Laura Blackburn now controls content, which makes the C&P the only local news source once again.
   Perhaps another blog will surface for a time with actual local news as it’s focus, but I won’t stay awake till it does.

   • This is an excellent, well-written, dead-spot-on observation of the City County Observer. Disaffected wrote it. Pretty wild. Hey, a good job is a good job.

     • Thanks, Quark. I know we are different politically, but I think that, like me, sometimes you just want the news. We can provide our own opinion.

       • Agreed !

   • Ah yes, the standard republican playbook. When the news doesn’t fit your twisted agenda just dismiss ad liberal media. It’s basically the same as them hating all college educated people because they’re jealous and then write them all off as brainwashed. The liberal media is a myth and just another way for you to be a constant victim in your warped pea brain. Google “things you’d know if there was a liberal media.”

2. Disaffected is spot on with his assessment of CCO.

3. BIAS IS OK – BIAS WITH BALANCE – BETTER
   Night and day: one – then the other – this is the way it must be

   When C-CO publishes a similar – but diametrically opposed commentary – penned by Wayne Parke
   Chairman VCRP – all perceived bias will evaporate. Until then – I offer a peek into the Republican perspective at the link below.
   http://www.vanderburghgop.com/

4. Protection for unions, not for religion.

   • Unions have a choice, take it or not. No choice for religion, do it or be punished. Why should the tax payers of Indiana be forced to pay unions more than the prevailing wage. This wage is only paid to tax payer funded jobs. Anything above the prevailing wage is welfare. The only reason the democrat machine is upset is because one of their vote buying schemes has been hurt. The liberal arm of the democrat party is pleased because it chaps their rears that an uneducated, low skilled union worker makes more that a liberal professor with a Phd. in the sexual habits of frogs. The unions are the reason that low income workers in this country suffer so much, union greed for higher and higher wages ran the good average pay jobs overseas. I think what we are seeing here is karma. When I see a sign that says, Proud Union Home, and a Toyota parked in the driveway that is a good indication of union support for union workers. Union are beyond their best use by date.

     • Trade unions can still be useful, but tying themselves to a single political party when the membership has become increasingly independent has done little to help workers. Now that over 50% of total union membership has moved into the non-productive public sector and away from manufacturing, skilled trades, transportation, and labor forces, private sector union taxpayers subsidize government jobs while losing any voice they once had in politics.

       • And by non-productive, I’m referring to GDP, not lack of usefulness.

         • Take away all the union workers and the slave labor of the past ( Chinese and others) and there would not be any America as we know it today. Remember it was Union Iron Workers (most of them of Indian Decent) that built the sky line of New York City. Can you say the Empire State Building?

           If I had to work with my hands I’d much rather pay a union due in order to get better working conditions and better pay for the job. That’s where the smart working people go. Only the unorganized have to work for slave wages and under harsh working conditions. Until you have worked in a few factories and had to put up with pushy bosses and low wages you won’t have an idea what it’s like to work under those conditions. I worked all my life and the worst job I ever had was working in a non union job. I left there after two weeks when a new union job asked me to work for them. I never regretted leaving the non union job and was glad that I had the opportunity to work with my union brothers. I probably helped made the equipment that was used to make the car you are driving today.

     • Pov

       Prevailing wage “IS” the union wage, not a two bit local yoko fly by night business rate.
       Prevailing wage “IS” both public and private jobs.
       Won’t dignify the other bile that you spewed!

     • I should have taken some pictures to show you of those old beaten down trailers I saw along the roads in Pike County Saturday with the “proud union home” sign sitting in their front yards along with all the other discarded trash. I didn’t see a single new car in the drive ways either.

5. Does the Local Democrat party pay it’s workers at the union rate?

6. Now, it is true there are reactionary Republicans who will truthfully point out that many of our local unions are whiter than the bedsheets at a Klan rally and that the leadership of these unions are white males who got their union jobs and leadership positions because they were relatives of an earlier generation of white male union members. These horrible conservatives will call us progressives hypocrites because of this, along with stuff like fleeing to Newburgh or the far north side in order to avoid a little too much diversity in where we live or send kids to school.

   To you smirking Republicans, I say… … … oh, yeah? Do as we say, not as we do!

   J. Coddington “Comrade Hugo” Fetlock IV
   Maximum co-coordinator
   Organizing for Idiocy
   Evansville Cell

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8. Can’t wait to see how many campaign event invitations and donation solicitation letters sent out by Faulkner and his candidates this year carry the disclaimer “Printed In House” along the bottom margin.

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