{"id":9191,"date":"2012-10-18T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2012-10-18T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:20:31","slug":"vote-for-romney-or-youre-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/vote-for-romney-or-youre-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Romney or You’re Fired!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The list of techniques employed by the Republican Party to suppress Democratic voters is long, disturbing, unethical, and often criminal.  However, never content to rest on their laurels, the Republican Party has added another technique to that list, voter intimidation by employers.  This is being done at the request of Willard Romney, himself.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"18memo-to-employees\"Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a lot of employers telling their employees<\/a><\/font> they need to vote for Mitt Romney if they expect to keep their jobs. The most recent stories come via Koch Industries, ASG Software, and Westgate Resorts.<\/font><\/p>\n

It turns out they may have been listeners on this conversation, which took place on June 7, 2012. The NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business) held a conference call with Mitt Romney and members. At the end of the call, Mitt concluded his remarks with this:<\/font><\/p>\n

I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections.<\/font><\/strong><\/span> And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope \u2014 I hope you pass those along to your employees. Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well.<\/font><\/p>\n

He just squeaked through with that tossed off reference to agreeing with him or President Obama, but the implication was pretty clear, wasn’t it?… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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NFIB a front group that donates to Republican candidates, so Willard knew there would be few if any Obama supporters in his audience.   And Romney is not the only Republican Politician doing it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rep. Joe Walsh last weekend told business owners that if there were ever a year where they needed to "energize" their employees for the election, it’s this year.<\/p>\n

And he told them to let their staff members know they could be out of a job if they don’t cast a vote for the Grand Old Party.<\/p>\n

"Spread the word," Walsh boomed. "If you run — if you run, own or manage a company, tell your employees. What was the CEO this week that said, ‘If Obama is re-elected, I may have to let all of you go next year? If Obama’s reelected, if the Democrats take Congress, I may not be able to cover your health insurance next year?<\/strong>‘"<\/p>\n

Walsh, who is in a intense battle for Illinois’ newly-redrawn 8th Congressional District against Democrat Tammy Duckworth, was referring to David Siegel, the founder and CEO of timeshare company Westgate Resorts. Siegel last week sent a note out to his employees telling them that four more years of an Obama Administration threatens the growth of his company and, therefore, their jobs\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Chris Matthews covered this story in two segments. In the first he discusses CEOs that threaten employees with Jon Nichols and Chrystia Freeland.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Income inequality is now greater than it has been at any time in history. Jon is right. Plutocons want a climate where there are no rules for the 1%, and that’s exactly what Willard is selling! In the second, Matthews asks if voter intimidation and other Republican tactics is really even democracy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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What else can I say. If Republicans are allowed to take power using these vile tactics, you can be sure they will expand their use in the next election, and the idea of US democratic institutions will be no more, replaced with a totalitarian corporate plutocracy of Republican one-party rule.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The list of techniques employed by the Republican Party to suppress Democratic voters is long, disturbing, unethical, and often criminal.  However, never content to rest on their laurels, the Republican Party has added another technique to that list, voter intimidation by employers.  This is being done at the request of Willard Romney, himself. Over the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}