SEIU starts third party in North Carolina
By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
04/09/10 10:21 AM EDT
Apparently statewide Democrats aren't sufficiently pro-union in North Carolina. So the nation's most politically influential union has decided to start a third party to run their own candidates in the state. It's also being done to punish moderate Democrats that voted against health care:
In a shot across the bow of Dems, the labor powerhouse SEIU is starting a new third party in North Carolina that hopes to field its own slate of candidates, part of an effort to make the Democratic Party more reliable on issues important to labor, I’m told.
SEIU officials setting up the new party, called North Carolina First, are currently on the ground collecting signatures to qualify as a state party, SEIU officials tell me, adding that there are around 100 canvassers on the ground right now. The goal: To have the party up and running so candidates can run in this fall’s elections.
It won’t be lost on political observers that three House Dems who voted No on reform are from the state: Heath Shuler, Mike McIntyre, and Larry Kissell.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/SEIU-starts-third-party-in-North-Carolina-90350619.html#ixzz0ke2pVfhK
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COMMENTARY: SO, IS IT ME OR HAS SEIU STARTED COPYING WHAT THE TEA PARTIES DO???
When the media reports about anything that is connected to the Tea Party movement, they like to keep the Tea Parties in an unfair and dishonest light. Let's see what they say about SEIU!
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