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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-15-10 11:51 PM Original message |
The SEIU is forming a third party in North Carolina |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
1. Expect some negative reaction in posting this information. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Oh I expect it |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
2. K&R |
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WorseBeforeBetter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
4. K&R, from North Carolina... (n/t) |
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NorthCarolina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
26. +1 |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:33 AM Response to Original message |
5. I somewhat caught the SEIU guy on with Matthews, and he kept referring to |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:38 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Skykell if memory serves |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:59 AM Response to Reply #5 |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 02:58 AM Response to Original message |
7. K&R |
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Union Yes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 04:47 AM Response to Original message |
8. Solidarity! K&R. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 04:52 AM Response to Original message |
9. We have the Working Families Party in NYS |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 06:03 AM Response to Original message |
10. Recommend |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
11. I wish them luck! Is there no Green Party in NC? nt |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
12. What Does This Serve |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 01:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. To tell the Democratic Party that they continue to pander to corporations at their own risk. |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 12:05 AM Response to Reply #25 |
54. As much as a support this movement, you're dead wrong |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 02:22 PM Response to Reply #12 |
29. The same role it served in other periods |
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Fading Captain (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 04:11 PM Response to Reply #12 |
39. It serves notice: Serve us (the people) or them (Big Business) |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
13. DOA |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:06 AM Response to Original message |
14. I'm of two POVs on this..... |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:13 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. It will not be good. |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 12:26 AM Response to Reply #15 |
58. They will have the most influence in a swing state. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
16. Stupid |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
17. If they go about it right--winning the trust of voters in local elections |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
18. Good luck with that |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
19. Good for them. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
21. If the national union doesn't squash this then I no longer support them. n/t |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 10:16 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Unions are never impressed with the whining of fair weather |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. They no solidarity to me, I no solidarity to them. n/t |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 01:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Apparently that's the same standard applied by the SEIU. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Well perhaps it is time for blue dog democrats |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 02:43 PM Response to Reply #21 |
32. Wow! it would be despotic and autocratic for the national union to quash its locals' activism |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 05:21 PM Response to Reply #21 |
40. Wow. So the unions have no right to support themselves? The Dems have |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:43 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. They have a right to vote for whoever they want to. n/t |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 05:23 PM Response to Reply #21 |
41. LOL |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
28. Good. I hope it spreads to other states. |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
31. Good news! maybe progressives will have some representation after all? |
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LetsgoWings13 (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
33. wouldn't that split our vote? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. The way the Union sees it, we are screwed either way |
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LetsgoWings13 (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 03:11 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. so we need the third party to break up the current party to make it better in the future? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Read a little US History |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Nope. Please see: 2000. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Ah yes, because we all know the USSC had no role |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:36 PM Response to Reply #38 |
43. That doesn't mean that actually voting for the party that made it up will work. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:40 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. So history and all it's evidence that Third Parties actually help |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:45 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. You keep talking about "history" without actually citing any. n/t |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:49 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. I have, and you keep citing the EXCEPTION of Bush v Gore |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:57 PM Response to Reply #49 |
53. Help me out here. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 12:10 AM Response to Reply #53 |
56. Since you insist on a trashing |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 01:08 AM Response to Reply #56 |
59. Yeah, yeah, I know there was a Socialist Party and still is. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 01:23 AM Response to Reply #59 |
61. I think we're done |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 01:27 AM Response to Reply #61 |
62. lol n/t |
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skipos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 05:28 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. 1912 is another example. And Greens still tries to defeat Wellstone and Lamont. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:42 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. It actually has the desired effect |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:47 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Is that why Nader got 3% of the vote in 2000 and less than 1% in 2004? n/t |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:51 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. Think WHIG... oh wait that means |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 12:09 AM Response to Reply #51 |
55. The Whigs were suffering staggering electoral losses; Democrats aren't. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 12:15 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. And who is talking of democrats? Oh wait all is about the democrats |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-17-10 01:09 AM Response to Reply #57 |
60. Not really since the parties back then were largely centered around regional concerns. n/t |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
50. SEIU is connected with the charter school movement |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:52 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. I just report what I heard on the tweet show |
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