Government/Public Employee Unions Losing Clout; Abandoning ‘Lost Causes’ National Campaigns to Bolster State/Local Elections & GOP Mike Huckabee's Willie Horton, Cops Killer Maurice Clemmons:

Government/Public Employee Unions Losing Clout; Abandoning ‘Lost Causes’ National Campaigns to Bolster State/Local Elections & GOP Mike Huckabee's Willie Horton, Cops Killer Maurice Clemmons:

By Marc Chamot

“We have re-evaluated how to get best results from our political dollars,” says Union President, Harold A Schaitberger of the International Association of Firefighters Union.

 “The union's traditional allies in Congress haven't aggressively defended firefighters, Schaitberger said.”We are simply shutting down any contributions going to any federal candidates or to any federal PACs or committees until, quite frankly, our friends are willing to stand up and fight on our behalf with the same kind of ferocity that our enemies and those that are literally trying to destroy us are doing on the other side," Schaitberger told USA TODAY.

How times have changed for the worst, and especially for government/public employees and their unions, who are losing the national public opinion’s war.

Government, public employees and their unions, who once were the pillars and core financiers of Democratic federal political campaigns, are abandoning that sinking ship to concentrate and bolster moneys into state and local elections.

According to Firefighters union President Harold Schaitberger, he says “union’s faces legislative fights, ballot measures and recall elections that threaten workers' rights in at least nine states. 

Republican-controlled legislatures in Wisconsin and Ohio this year have approved new laws curtailing collective bargaining rights for public employees. [1] The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) announced Tuesday it would stop giving political contributions to federal candidates and campaigns. 

In a statement, IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger said his union has decided to focus its efforts at the state level. "We know we have legislative fights, ballot measures and recall elections that will require us to be on the offensive at the state and local level through this fall.

I expect this strategic decision to focus our resources on state and local efforts to last as long as the political and legislative fights in the states continue," Schaitberger said.[2] 

The attacks launched at our members since the November 2010 elections have changed the landscape. '''We know we have legislative fights, ballot measures and recall elections that will require us to be on the offensive at the state and local level through this fall.

I expect this strategic decision to focus our resources on state and local efforts to last as long as the political and legislative fights in the states continue,''' IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger said. The IAFF in February began a campaign to assist fire fighters and paramedics wage their political and legislative fights in statehouses.

The IAFF has helped its members respond to anti-worker legislation in Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, Oklahoma, Michigan, Nebraska, Alabama, Tennessee and New Hampshire, using legal resources, television, newspaper, Internet and social media to educate our members and the public and fight back with everything we have. [3]

The union will focus on state elections. In a statement, IAFF officials said: "We spent close to $15 million in the last election cycle on behalf of federal candidates and both political parties, helping to elect those who support us and defeat those who oppose us.

The IAFF went on to say they felt "attacks" launched at members since the November 2010 elections have changed the landscape. IAFF President Harold Schaitberger said he doesn't believe any firefighter legislation will pass this Congress.

Therefore, he said, they need to take a stand. "And while we are fighting for our very survival, our friends aren't doing enough to fight back -- they don't have our backs," he told members in a letter. [4] 

It could be Obama again in 2012, but it definitely won’t be heavy baggage laden, Romney or Huckabee and that’s a virtual guarantee.

GOP too divided; last week, I told you why I didn't think Mitt Romney would make it as U.S. president. Mitt Romney will always be remembered for Massachusetts’ FAILED Romneycare, which Obama and Democrats used as the model for the nation’s disastrous Obamacare.

Good old Mitt Romney thinks he can be the GOP/Republican presidential nominee. “Romney may be among GOP front-runners and he may also be a good guy and all, but however, I wouldn’t vote for him, I’d VOTE for Obama first before I’d vote for Mitt Romney.

And not only was President Obama’s disastrous healthcare ‘Obamacare,’ which was an exact carbon copy of Massachusetts’ FAILED Romney Care, Mitt knew Obamacare was going to be a big problem for the nation, when Obama and Democrats first proposed it.

Romney kept quiet about it, when the Democrats proposed this costly and outrageous idiocy over a year ago, and until recently, he decided to admit it was a total failure in his state, just because he’s running for president.”

Now, it’s on to Mike Huckabee and a possible Mike the Huckster for U.S. president? I don’t think he’s GOT chance in hell, even within his OWN party.  Me personally, I don’t think the Huckster can survive Maurice Clemmons.

Texans have always remembered the ‘Alamo’ during the Mexican-American wars, but for GOP Presidential hopeful Michael Huckabee. It will always be remembering COP KILLER Maurice Clemmons, and it will always be Michael’s Willie Horton hanging over his head, no matter what he does on the campaign trails.

You see, when Mike Huckabee was governor of Arkansas back some ways, he had bleeding hearts for his state’s dangerous convicts and felons.  And of what we know, Huckabee commuted sentences of hundreds of dangerous felons, including the one for Maurice Clemmons in 2000.

Maurice Clemmons was that insane guy, who shot and killed four COPS in cold blood at a Lakewood Washington coffee shop in 2009. Before Maurice Clemmons’ clemency came up before Governor Mike Huckabee, the Huckster WAS warned that Maurice Clemmons was too dangerous, an anti-social nut-case that should never be released back into society.

But as always, old Huckster knew better than anyone else, he was the Arkansas Huckster governor after all, and had bleeding hearts for poor, dangerous, and insane KILLERS like Maurice Clemmons after all. Huckabee commuted a 95 year prison sentence for a known violent felon and a rapist.

Sadly, four innocent police officers PAID the ultimate price for this governor’s past ignorance and I DON’T want him for president.

Huckabee had granted 1,033 clemencies during 10 years in office, more than double the number granted by three governors during the previous 17 years. A ‘Political Case,’ during the presidential campaign, Huckabee denied pressuring a state parole board to release a convicted rapist who later raped again and committed murders.

This is the KIND of stuff liberal Democrat governors do, but not REAL conservative Republicans, as what Mike Huckabee pretends to be. "If I could have known nine years ago that this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would have never granted a commutation. It's sickening," Huckabee said on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor." Yeah, yeah, Huckster, go cry on someone else’s’ shoulders, someone who REALLY cares about YOU.

It didn't take long for the outrage - especially strong among his would-be base - to hit the Internet.

"The problem is that his judgment on that was flawed and Huckabee didn't take the counsel of wiser men on some of these cases," wrote conservative blogger Ed Morrissey of hotair.com. "That goes directly to executive judgment."

Wrote Dan Riehl on his blog, Riehl World View, of Huckabee's prospects in 2012 or 2016: "No Huckabee, you were the executive in charge, the lone elected decision-maker, as it were, when this man was put away and unable to gain release.

YOU made it possible, not the system, the state, or even two. Own it, you hypocrite. You said recently you weren't leaning toward running for office in 2012. It gives me great satisfaction to tell you, fahgit(forget) about it, Huck-abubba."

A presidential Backfire, contrary to Liberal presses and lies, Obama’s still the bigger FOOL over the birth certificate flap. It all shows how idiotic Barack Obama truly is. President Obama had over two years to bring out the long form, but finally OUT of the blue, he comes out and does it.

Obama played games with American common senses while in the White House. Obama thought the ‘birther’ issue would be to his great advantage politically, however 2012 is just around the corner, but somehow this game went totally out of control.

In polls of opinions; President Obama began seeing doubts about his citizenship growing every year since he took office, and had to put an end to this agony, to HIS OWN idiocy, which he started three years ago, when he first ran for U.S. president.