{"id":89,"date":"2007-09-18T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:23:57","slug":"so-many-union-officials-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/so-many-union-officials-so-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"So Many Union Officials, So Little Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Democrat Presidential contenders addressed SEIU officials at a <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5i-_pR2bzBXODcaw8MyOHwO99nzOQ\">candidates\u2019 forum<\/a> in Washington,DC. The Presidential wannabes all know the massive financial support that can come from the support of union officials and their forced-dues coffers.<\/p>\n<p>And if past experience is an indicator, an endorsement by SEIU officials is particularly lucrative.<\/p>\n<p>After all it was SEIU officials that in 2004 sent $26 million, much of it seized from employees as a condition of employment, to the 527 group Americans Coming Together (ACT). After a <a href=\"\/blog\/federal-election-commission\">complaint<\/a> filed by the National Right to Work Foundation, the Federal Election Commission fined ACT for illegally spending the money on partisan electioneering\u2026 and that\u2019s just one union\u2019s electioneering efforts with one outside group. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/node\/30\">Total estimates<\/a> for the amount spent by union officials to influence the 2003-04 political cycle are nearly a billion dollars.)<\/p>\n<p>But, as former-New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson showed, kowtowing to union officials can be <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/richardsons_seiu_gaffe.php\">quite confusing<\/a>, what with so many union officials and so little time. That\u2019s why Richardson undoubtedly left union operatives scratching their heads when he ended his speech to the SEIU exclaiming \u201cThank you AFSCME!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Democrat Presidential contenders addressed SEIU officials at a <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5i-_pR2bzBXODcaw8MyOHwO99nzOQ\">candidates\u2019 forum<\/a> in Washington,DC. The Presidential wannabes all know the massive financial support that can come from the support of union officials and their forced-dues coffers.<\/p>\n<p>And if past experience is an indicator, an endorsement by SEIU officials is particularly lucrative.<\/p>\n<p>After all it was SEIU officials that in 2004 sent $26 million, much of it seized from employees as a condition of employment, to the 527 group Americans Coming Together (ACT). After a <a href=\"\/blog\/federal-election-commission\">complaint<\/a> filed by the National Right to Work Foundation, the Federal Election Commission fined ACT for illegally spending the money on partisan electioneering\u2026 and that\u2019s just one union\u2019s electioneering efforts with one outside group. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilrr.org\/node\/30\">Total estimates<\/a> for the amount spent by union officials to influence the 2003-04 political cycle are nearly a billion dollars.)<\/p>\n<p>But, as former-New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson showed, kowtowing to union officials can be <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/richardsons_seiu_gaffe.php\">quite confusing<\/a>, what with so many union officials and so little time. That\u2019s why Richardson undoubtedly left union operatives scratching their heads when he ended his speech to the SEIU exclaiming \u201cThank you AFSCME!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>So Many Union Officials, So Little Time - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/so-many-union-officials-so-little-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So Many Union Officials, So Little Time - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday, Democrat Presidential contenders addressed SEIU officials at a candidates\u2019 forum in Washington,DC. 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