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Connecticut GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon – perhaps better known in her previous role as CEO of WWE wrestling – stepped in it this weekend when she dodged a question on terror trials in the United States, saying, “I’ll probably have more firm policy statements after the first of the year.”
After being ridiculed from the left and right, McMahon’s campaign issued a clarifying response, in which she equated her opposition to terror trials to her opposition to “card check,” among other issues.
“Linda is opposed to trying Khalid Sheik Mohammad in civilian court,” spokesman Ed Patru said in an email. “Her position on terrorist trials is crystal clear and unwavering, just as it is with cap-and-trade, card check legislation, government-run healthcare and runaway spending.”
Ah yes. Lump all that right in together. Opposing terrorist trials is “crystal clear,” just like opposing workers who want a voice at work.
Looks like McMahon quickly got a hold of the GOP’s new “purity resolution.”
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run health care;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
Of course, Connecticut Republicans can always choose Rob Simmons, who was a steadfast supporter of the Employee Free Choice Act when he was in Congress. Except til, you know, he changed his mind.
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It’s easy to see why McMahon fears unions: Can you imagine having to go into a negotiation with a union made up wrestlers who hurt other people as part of their daily work!!
It reminds me of a trip I made to Colombia many years ago. The unions there were not strong, as a general rule. One exception was a local representing sugar cane cutters. These were men who literally swing a machete for a living. The sugar barons did not want to tangle with those guys.
See how good she would be at falling into lock step.
Yupper. The biggest reason Jesse Ventura had to leave wrestling was because he dared push to unionize what was then the WWF.
If you think about it, professional wrestling is the perfect training for being a Republican politician.
• Everything is fake
• Bad guys pretend to be good for a while before showing their true colors again
• Use fear, hatred and anger to manipulate the masses
• Make lots of money
• Use bombastic language to whip up emotions of a crowd
Per the NRTWC:
“Card checks empower union bosses to force a business’s employees to accept a union as their exclusive bargaining agent solely through the acquisition of signed union authorization cards from employees in a particular bargaining unit. Since union officials themselves keep the signed cards until they obtain the required number, workers have no real privacy rights vis-à-vis Big Labor in this process. And under the watchful eyes of union organizers, workers may be intimidated into signing not just themselves, but all their nonunion fellow employees, over to union-boss control.”
I see a great inefficiency in this. Instead of union officials keeping the signed cards why don’t they enlist the help of ACORN to do this?
Good points. Its perfect training to operate in the GOP environment.
Workers can’t be forced into anything. It’s called Employee Free Choice.
Them terrists is real scary…
If that’s sarcasm, it’s too thinly veiled. If it’s not, you should know NRTWC is hardly a reputable source, especially around these parts.
Was that a quote from Sarah Palin’s resume?
How many truly ignorant, and how many truly stupid people do we have that want to be king?
maybe not “the wrestlers” themselves, but I have a hard time believing the WWE tech and crafts crews are not union
McMahon should read This Modern World:
The Association of Right-Wing Bedwetters presents: 5 compelling reasons not to hold terror trials in New York City
Put Linda in charge of trying the terror suspects and she’d turn it into a Pay Per View spectacle on cable TV.
Few are better at using the market to turn, well, practically everything into a buck. Assuming of course all the bucks stay in her pocket. Oh, and a few of the “star” workers flinging each other each around down in the carefully scripted ring.
heh, by terror suspects I first thought Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the rest of BushCo.
Employee free choice? What a joke. Only a left-wing sycophant can believe removing the secret ballot is free choice. Until you start advocating for the removal of the secret ballot for Presidential and Congressional elections you will be rightfully viewed as hypocrites by the overwhelming majority of Americans who do not want the EFCA. There is no legitimate explanation as to how getting rid of the secret ballot can be called free choice.
Right. It’s always far better to have the management intimidating the worker rather than fellow workers trying to make things better.
Do you really believe there is any “secret” ballot in these union votes as currently constructed?
If so, I do want some of your drugs, as they must be finest kind.
Quite wrong. The point of EFCA is to remove the bureaucratic structures built around the secret ballot election that favor anti-union employers. Quite a few pro-union people have said they would be satisfied with “quickie election” procedure instead of the card check. But of course, the Republicans and the CofC are also against the quickie election because they don’t really care about elections, they care about hobbling unions.