{"id":195873,"date":"2008-06-09T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/seiu-establishes-10m-political-punishment-fund\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T10:07:00","slug":"seiu-establishes-10m-political-punishment-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/09\/seiu-establishes-10m-political-punishment-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"SEIU Establishes $10M Political Punishment Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strike>Bush<\/strike> Blue Dog Democratic Caucus has spent too much time presenting only lip service to Democratic party goals.  This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/05\/us\/05labor.html?_r=2&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=us&amp;adxnnlx=1212844602-nlntWHKaWHqPnPoLTslOvQ\">move by the SEIU<\/a> (scroll down) is a good start on dealing with the guys who forget the people what brung them after the elections:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In a move likely to upset some Democrats, the delegates approved an \u201caccountability plan\u201d in which the union would spend $10 million to pressure or punish political candidates who made pro-worker, pro-union promises, but broke them after being elected.<\/p>\n<p>The union\u2019s leaders cite a primary last February in which the service employees played an instrumental role in defeating Representative Albert Wynn, Democrat of Maryland, because the union thought he was favoring business over workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bush Blue Dog Democratic Caucus has spent too much time presenting only lip service to Democratic party goals. This move by the SEIU (scroll down) is a good start on dealing with the guys who forget the people what brung them after the elections: In a move likely to upset some Democrats, the delegates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,1000,1023,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-elections","category-labor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195873"}],"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=195873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}