The folks over at Jill Long-Thompson’s campaign HQ are squawking again. This time it’s in regard to Mitch Daniels a $725,000 donation from the Republican Governors Association. JLT says it’s beltway money, since they’re based in Washington, D.C. That’s a bunch of baloney. The Republican Governors Association, not unlike the Democrat’s Governors Association raises money across the country. The Democratic Governor’s Association contributed to JLT as well. A paltry $75,000.

While Jill’s bemoaning the contribution she also states the bulk of her contributions are coming from everyday, working class people. Another lie.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has contributed over $700,000. The SEIU basically steals money from state employees.

From the Sacramento Bee

A federal judge has ordered the state’s largest public employee union to repay as many as 28,000 non-union state workers who were not given a chance to challenge a 2005 dues increase to fight initiatives backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Judge Morrison England, in a decision Thursday, ordered Service Employees International Union Local 1000 to send notices to the workers who opted out of union membership. The union must issue refunds, with interest, to those non-union members who object to the special assessment. The rebate would amount to $135 plus interest for a worker who made $4,500 a month in 2005.

The special fee raised $12 million to fight Schwarzenegger’s agenda, about a quarter of which was paid by state workers who chose not to join the union.

One Schwarzenegger-backed initiative would have required public employee unions to get written permission from members to use dues for political purposes. Another would have given governors broad budget-cutting powers.

“This is an opportunity for the state employees to reclaim the special assessment money that was taken from them unlawfully and used to advocate political causes they might disagree with,” said Justin Hakes, spokesman for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation in Virginia, which provided legal advice to the state workers who sued.

Jon Jumper, a tax auditor for the state Employment Development Department in Anaheim, said he signed onto the lawsuit when he found out about the special assessment from a co-worker.

“I’m tickled,” he said. “I can’t stand the union.” He said the union does little to help state workers, while bolstering its own budget with dues.

The SEIU is also working to prevent Indiana from becoming a “Right-to-Work” state. Indiana currently has a Right-to-Work law in effect for school employees, and the SEIU would like to eliminate that. No other workers are covered. A Right-to-Work state prevents workers from being forced to pay tribute to a union in order to get or keep a job. Long Thompson campaign spokesman Jeff Harris claims the SEIU represents working people over corporate interests. The fact is the SEIU only represents the union and their money-grubbing agenda. Most of their members have the money taken stolen from them (without asking), for the political gain of the union.

The SEIU thinks it can buy this election. I don’t think so.

AWB

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