My area's morally unfit congressman, Taliban Pete "Rep. Moron" Sessions, has learned at least one thing-- if you can't beat your opponents with facts, make a few things up about what you're opposing and hope you don't get caught.
I don't know if Sessions learned the technique from reading Taliban manuals, but he's sure using it on his taxpayer-supported web site as he fights against legislation that would assure workers in districts like his (yes, I do LIVE and WORK in his district)have the right to join a union.
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The legislation Taliban Pete is against-- the Employee Free Choice Act-- gives workers the opportunity to choose whether they want secret ballot elections or be able to express their choice of representation through a card-check system.
Despite facts that completely contradict his claims, Sessions has joined his fellow opponents of the legislation in repeating the outright lie that the bill would, to hear Sessions tell it,
...deny employees a private ballot in union organizing by instead instituting "card check"—a process that violates workers’ privacy by leaving workers vulnerable to union intimidation to sign public support cards for unionization.
What about employer intimidation, Taliban Pete? What about the intimidation many have been subjected to for merely wanting to join unions. What about threats employers have made against workers for even attempting to organize unions?
Sessions continues his rant with some remarks eeringly similar to statements he has made on the House floor in years past in fighting against workers' rights:
"Despite unsupported claims of improving working conditions, card check is no more than a favor to union bosses looking to pad their dues-paying membership. By stacking the deck in favor of union bosses at the expense of workers and job-creators, card check will give union bosses a potential avenue to harass, coerce and deceive workers into union representation without regard to improving their working conditions. And by threatening both employer and employee rights and imposing undue government restrictions on businesses, card check promises little more than fewer worker rights and millions of jobs lost, according to non-partisan studies.
Note: Actually the link Sessions used under "non-partisan studies" was JUST ONE study, not the more than one his statement implied.
We deserve better than a congressman who uses his taxpayer-supported web site to spread lies about legislation he hates. We need a congressman who will fight for the rights of workers to form labor unions without fear of retribution from their employers.
I hope Democrats in my district find a strong opponent who will confront Sessions with his lies and battles against the interests of average folks in his district like me and send him into retirement in November 2010.