{"id":177198,"date":"2019-11-26T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/26\/there-are-worse-things-than-dressing-up-as-a-klans-man-for-halloween\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T01:05:00","slug":"there-are-worse-things-than-dressing-up-as-a-klans-man-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/26\/there-are-worse-things-than-dressing-up-as-a-klans-man-for-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Worse Things than Dressing Up as a Klans Man for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things like opposing the repeal of Virginia&#8217;s &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; laws, wich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/plus\/northam-discourages-repeal-of-right-to-work-law-in-remarks\/article_938783fe-cceb-5e22-9506-34bac525f9b9.html\">nominal Democrat Ralph Northam just did<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gov. Ralph Northam made clear to his revenue advisory council on Monday that he does not support repeal of Virginia\u2019s right-to-work law that forbids compulsory union membership.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">With Democrats preparing to take complete control of the General Assembly for the first time in more than 25 years, Northam sought to reassure Virginia business leaders that the state won\u2019t take a sharp leftward turn on an issue that has long been a political fire alarm in a pro-business state.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI can\u2019t foresee Virginia taking actions [that would include] repeal of the right-to-work law,\u201d he told the Governor\u2019s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Virginia\u2019s right-to-work law says participation in a union may not be a condition for employment in the state. In 2016, Virginia voters rejected a proposal to put provisions of the law in the state constitution.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Destiny LeVere, communications director of the Virginia AFL-CIO, said the organization reacted with \u201cdeep disappointment\u201d to the governor\u2019s remarks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cBeing named 1st for business and 51st overall for workers isn\u2019t something Virginia should be proud of,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis General Assembly session, workers will be joining together to ensure that there will be a robust, pro-labor agenda that values Virginia\u2019s workers, putting us at the forefront. Number one on this agenda is repealing right-to-work.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Northam is a f%$#ing coward and he is f%$#ing stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Not only to anti-union laws like RTW hurt the average citizen, but they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w24259\">cost Democrats about 3\u00bd% of the vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Northam, you are sh%$ting in your party in order to suck up to f%$#ing f%$#s like the f%$#ing Chamber of f%$#ing Commerce, which will oppose you and try to defeat you anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things like opposing the repeal of Virginia&#8217;s &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; laws, wich nominal Democrat Ralph Northam just did: Gov. Ralph Northam made clear to his revenue advisory council on Monday that he does not support repeal of Virginia\u2019s right-to-work law that forbids compulsory union membership.With Democrats preparing to take complete control of the General Assembly for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[585,364,387,465,449,442],"class_list":["post-177198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cowardice","tag-evil","tag-hypocrisy","tag-labor","tag-legislation","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}