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How in the world could such an “underhanded scheme” ever have been put in place? Jennifer Granholm, that’s how.
This is the sort of thing Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) was talking about when he described our antiquated labor laws as a form of cronyism. Rarely has there been a more clear-cut case of political connections being employed to siphon money from taxpayers into the greedy hands of the well-connected, with an arrangement viewed by everyone except the beneficiaries and their pet Democrats as a scam. Fox News lays it out for is:
A Michigan branch of the powerful Service Employees International Union saw its membership and revenues plummet after the reversal of a measure that forced caregivers tending to friends or relatives to be members with their dues paid by those they cared for.
More than 44,000 home-based healthcare workers parted ways with SEIU Healthcare Michigan after learning they did not have to join the union or pay dues, according to reports the union filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. Thousands of the employees were allegedly forced into the union under a plan the SEIU successfully lobbied for that classified even unpaid family members caring for their elderly parents as “home health care workers.” Dues were then automatically collected from the care recipients’ Medicare or Medicaid checks.
“Family members were told they were public employees,” Patrick Wright, director of the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation, a Michigan-based policy group, told FoxNews.com. “They are not public employees and this was not proper.
“It was an underhanded scheme to get these people in [the union],” he added.
How in the world could such an “underhanded scheme” ever have been put in place? Jennifer Granholm, that’s how. The disastrous Democrat governor of Michigan was all too willing to give her union friends some of that sweet crony power. This is how it went down, according to the Washington Examiner:
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I guess I’m being shallow, but are raised moles the Mark of the Democratic Beast?
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OMG! She’s got the Wendy Davis mole. (there’s a song there somewhere)
@Stirrin you mean like Bette Davis eyes song?
yep!
Remember, this is a Canadian beauty queen…
You are correct FDR.
I’m starting a small business here at my ranch removing facial moles and growths from lib politicians. It’ll be doing it with a dehorning nibbler and cauterizer, but hey…it’s free.
First up, Alan Caveman Grayson.
I just saw a story this afternoon about a woman (I didn’t think it was MI) whose case is being heard by the supremes now. She is taking care of her disabled 25 year-old son. SEIU threatened her to join.
“I’m Buck Melanoma. Moley Russell’s wart. Not her wart! I’m… I’m the wart. She’s my tumor. My… my growth. My… uh, my pimple. I’m Uncle Wart. Just old Buck “Wart” Russell. That’s what they call me, or Melanoma Head. They’ll call me that. “Melanoma Head’s coming.”
Classic line from John Candy in ‘Uncle Buck’ upon seeing his nieces Guidance Counselor’s hugh wart.
Its just a cold sore, honest!
This is the bimbo that did a bat-shit crazy performance at the Dem convention. Her basket is missing quite a few apples.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/54094/jennifer-granholm-michigans-own-crazy-jenny-from-the-block/
“Go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face.” Unk Buck
We’re not entirely happy with nerd boy Snyder, but he’s still a huge improvement over this Prog statist.
@AbigailAdams–that Mom was from Illinois. After Gov. Quinn signed the law, he gave the SEIU all the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the caretakers so they are being harrassed.
Moley moley moley moley!!
Wait, after the comment that facial moles are a sign of the devil, why did no one make reference to the one on the “pResidents” face?
A complimentary flies are issued to those without a mole yet.
Oops, drop the first word. Bad edit.