* Some Republicans are trying to coerce women voters to join them and their splinter group, the Tea Party. With right wing female leaders like O'Donnell and Palin, some males might wonder why more women aren't flocking to the right wing. If you haven't figured that out yet, I'll give you a few hints:
* Republicans, O'Donnell, Palin, and their ilk are
- against reproductive choices. They want to decide if you should remain pregnant. They want to decide what types of birth control are available to you. They want to decide if women's clinics can provide counseling and medical services in the neighborhood.
- against the rights of gays to marry and adopt. They don't believe that a safe, loving, and nurturing home can be provided by a gay couple. Love is love.
- against women having the same career choices as men.
- against equal pay for equal work.
- against voters being able to choose their own U.S. Senators. It is sad to say that the Tea Partiers, and some Republicans like Steve Stivers, a former bank lobbyist, are against the 17th Amendment.
- against the new health reform law.
- against immigrants.
- against collective bargaining, unions, public school teachers, and of course, President Barack Obama.
**** The Republicans and their Tea Partiers talk about their family values. Family values? Really? Really. If you'd like to read about "Republican Family Values" you must visit the Mike Malloy board for a partial list of examples.
>>>> I saw this at MikeMalloy.com. Here is the story from JimmyJohnsWorkers:
Jimmy John’s workers were doing more than preparing french bread, cold cuts, and sliced tomatoes for “Dollar Sub Day” this morning as union members and supporters hit the bricks outside stores, asking customers to put up tip jars and use them....
...Despite making hundreds of sandwiches each day, workers are not entitled to a free sandwich unless they work a 7 hour shift, a rarity for a company with standard shifts of 2-4 hours. Today, Jimmy Johns workers will be asked to pay $2.50 for a $1 sandwich, and will not have tips to cover the difference.
“Respect is a core issue at Jimmy John’s, and what we are fighting to regain,” says David Boehnke, an in-shop worker at the Skyway Jimmy John's store in downtown Minneapolis. “While tip jars and free sandwiches may not seem like a big deal, to come in, make $15-25 working all of lunch, make no tips, clean up, and go home hungry—this is not something that connotes respect.”
They don't even give them a sandwich????? OMG!
***** You know what? I'm still upset that John Kasich said (Star Beacon):
....Expand the school voucher program and break the grip unions hold on education. "Now my concern with the teachers union is that I am convinced they are a lot more concerned with their own situation rather than the situation of our children," Kasich said.
“We need more school choice, we need to break the back of organized labor in the schools, and we need to turn our schools into institutions that excite our kids and teach them, and the best way to get it done is to give mothers and fathers the power to take their kids out of bad places and put them in good,” Kasich said to a round of applause....
I guess he wants public school teachers to have the same low pay and no health insurance or benefits like the teachers at the private Christian school where his daughters attend. Some of them don't even make a living wage.
I don't know what is the root of Kasich's hatred of public school teachers, but I will tell you that many teachers are more highly educated than he is, have worked in sometimes dangerous conditions (like me), continue to train and retrain, have more years on the job than he has, and are smarter than he is. I guess that must be it---- Kasich dislikes smart, educated, public school teachers.
**** In case you still haven't figured it out- - - -
I won't vote for Kasich.