Anti-EFCA Group Targeting Sen. Bayh Paid Karl Rove Co. $100K In Consulting Fees
Anti-EFCA Group Targeting Sen. Bayh Paid Karl Rove Co. $100K In Consulting Fees
In the last few days, the Economic Freedom Alliance (EFA) has created a website and placed billboards in Indiana pressuring Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) to vote against the Employee Free Choice Act. The EFA, which is composed of a variety of business organizations located in the Midwest, claims that its purpose is to make Congress “feel the pressure from our central message about the harmful effect that radical organized labor proposals in Congress will have on job creation in the Midwest”:
[T]he absence of a hard-hitting, district-focused campaign leaves a serious gap in that overall effort. EFA is not encumbered by the need for political correctness and hence its response can be better positioned to fill the critical messaging void in overall Card Check opposition campaign.
Evidently, EFA is also not encumbered by a need to adhere to the facts, as its website is claiming that the Employee Free Choice Act will “cost the U.S. economy 600,000 jobs in 2010,” which is a statistic taken from a thoroughly discredited study by business sponsored scholar Anne Layne-Farrar. As the Institute for Southern Studies put it, “even as a piece of business research-for-hire, Layne-Farrar’s study is shockingly weak — based on a thin set of old and irrelevant data that doesn’t even bear out her own conclusions.”
But EFA’s disclosure and expenditure form provides some insight into why it’s comfortable parading out false talking points. After all, the EFA has paid $100,000 in consulting fees to Karl Rove and Co this year.
This $20,000 fee was paid every month this year, February through June. And given Rove’s penchant for falsehoods, it’s no surprise that EFA has gone down the same road. EFA has also given $5000 to astroturf group Americans for Prosperity to “reimburse for event expense” (with Prosperity misspelled as “Properity” on the disclosure form).
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Card Check is a terrible bill and the word needs to get out. Unions have found it more difficult to get employees to join and they despartely need new members to cover their pension shortfalls.
A good union doesn’t need Card Check and a bad one doesn’t deserve it.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:21 amCan Karl Rove and his Republican mob sink any lower? If ever there was a devil, he is it. No trick is too dirty. No crime is too vile. He is ugly inside and out. His punishment—he should be stripped of all his money and power, and locked in solitary confinement for the rest of his pathetic little life.
It’s high time to hold these thugs who stole the White House for eight years responsible for some of the damage they’ve done under the guise of governing. They’ve ruined the lives of millions, caused countless deaths and suffering in Iraq, and all but destroyed the world’s economy. And, for what? All in the name of their GOD, MONEY!!!!!
August 5th, 2009 at 2:54 pmWhere do people like Marilee come from? We wouldn’t want facts to get in the way of anything would we Marilee. Like Bush having unemployment under 5% for his first 6 years and then the democrats took over congress and the economy started falling apart. Destroyed Iraq by building new schools, bringing peace to a nation overrun with terrorists and thugs?
August 6th, 2009 at 10:19 amDo you even know what card check is about? I doubt it, that would require you actually having read something besides your own little hate speach.
Clarion’s comments seem reasonable, but without some government protection, there can be very few effective unions, such as the sad situation today in the US, where the few unions that do exist have very little influence.
Canada has a law similar to EFCA and has twice the percentage of union membership as the US. As a result, safety and health issues, for example as in mining are much stronger there as a result. Mining fatalities are far fewer in Canada because of insistence on safety by the labor unions. US unions are weak and ineffective because of the anti-union laws that EFCA attempts to correct.
As unions have declined since the Reagan war on unions, middle-class and working class incomes have seen no increase for 30+ years.
Right-wing trolls like Bob, why don’t you “attend” a town hall meeting in a different state and spread your misinformation that way.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:08 ambob doesn’t have the slightest idea what he’s talking about….the bush economy’s house of cards nature was already apparent before 2006…and iraq only became “a nation overrun with terrorists” after the invasion…
August 6th, 2009 at 12:30 pm