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The 912 Project - Glenn Beck

912 Group of Central Ohio

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[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

New York carpenters union head pleads guilty to racketeering charges
By: Mark Hemingway

Surprise! Corruption is still a major problem in organized labor:

    After years of fighting criminal charges, the former head of the union that represents carpenters in New York City pleaded guilty on Wednesday to taking part in a racketeering scheme stretching back over a decade, the authorities said.

    The former leader, Michael J. Forde, was accused along with nine other union officials and contractors of stealing millions of dollars from the union and its benefit funds.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/new-york-carpenters-union-head-pleads-guilty-to-racketeering-charges-99577129.html#ixzz0vG3lOsJM

What a JOKE.

By what standard is union corruption a major problem?

Union Corruption is nothing compared to a little something called CORPORATE CORRUPTION.

Ever hear of Enron, Bear Stearns, WorldCom/MCI, Tyco, Adelphia Communications, or Global Crossing?

Each of these scandals cost the shareholders and the tax payers BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

Are you starting to get it?

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

D.C. teachers union to file suit over firings
By: Leah Fabel
Examiner Staff Writer

The Washington Teachers Union will file a class-action lawsuit on behalf of its 241 teachers fired last week for poor performance in the classroom, union President George Parker said Monday.

"The story is not the firings so much as the document upon which the firings are based," Parker said. "It is a flawed document."

He derided the "euphoric" reaction of observers and news reports nationwide, saying he's "never seen a superintendent receive less scrutiny than Chancellor [Michelle] Rhee."

"There's this sense that since [other superintendents] haven't been able to do something like this, she must be right," he said. "They assume that if she's firing people, they must be poor teachers."

The document in question is the D.C. Public Schools' teacher and staff evaluation tool, called Impact, which rates teachers from "highly effective" to "ineffective." An "ineffective" score left 185 of the system's 4,300 teachers without a job in the fall -- about 10 times the average number of firings in similarly sized districts. Another 56 teachers were let go for licensure problems.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/education/D_C_-teachers-union-to-file-suit-over-firings-1003814-99278909.html#ixzz0vOC7b83G

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Scandal Haunts Atlanta’s School Chief
Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times

ATLANTA — Early on in Beverly L. Hall’s 11-year tenure as superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, she figured that the academic gains she intended to make with the city’s mostly poor, black students would face skepticism.

Superintendent Beverly L. Hall’s success in Atlanta has not insulated her from a scandal of widespread cheating at 12 schools.

“I knew the day would come when people would question, was the progress real?” she said in an interview last week.

So Dr. Hall took a risk, signing up for a trial program to track and compare urban school districts. Since then, Atlanta has made the highest gains in the program in reading and among the highest in math, making it a national model and Dr. Hall a star in the education field.

But that has not insulated her from a cheating scandal that initially threatened to engulf two-thirds of the district’s 84 schools. Even after an independent investigation recently found that the problem was much less widespread, critics have called for her resignation and attacked the investigation’s credibility.

The scandal has revived age-old questions about the ability of urban students to achieve — skepticism that Dr. Hall, who rose through the ranks of New York City school system and is now one of the longest-serving urban superintendents, has spent her career trying to dislodge.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/education/08atlanta.html?_r=1

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Milwaukee teachers union files suit over lack of Viagra coverage
It says MPS is discriminating against male employees

By Eric Randall of the Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association has filed a civil suit claiming that MPS' exclusion of Viagra and other drugs that treat erectile dysfunction from its health insurance plans constitutes sexual discrimination against male employees.

Last September, an administrative law judge dismissed an earlier ruling that sided with the union, which filed an equal rights complaint in 2008. The state's Labor and Industry Review Commission upheld the decision in June.

The union now seeks a review of that decision by a Milwaukee County circuit court judge.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/100170484.html

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Hard labor

The inspector general has found a record of poor judgment at the school facilities commission. Now Richard Murray should resign

Richard Murray is a card-carrying union man. He makes no secret of it. And he shouldn't. But Murray is also the executive director of the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission, which supervises the biggest school construction program the state ever has undertaken. In that capacity, he has an obligation to maintain a strict separation between his personal links to labor unions and his duty to ensure the program proceeds in a manner that is scrupulously fair and transparent, the results cost-effective.

Last week, the Ohio inspector general released a report on Murray's dealings with regard to union and non-union contractors. The independent investigation stemmed from growing complaints that Murray was steering contracts to union contractors, cutting out nonunion contractors by aggressively pushing project labor agreements.

http://www.ohio.com/editorial/opinions/100211729.html

Stimulus Pushers
The latest bailout for public unions and spendthrift states.
 
To treat Washington's spending addiction, the November elections are the taxpayer's best chance to stage an intervention. But until then, President Obama and the Democratic Congress are determined to keep pushing strung-out state governments to take one more fix.

Witness yesterday's 247-161 largely party-line House vote to approve a Senate bill shoveling another $26.1 billion out to state education and Medicaid programs. The White House has promoted the bill as emergency assistance for strained state budgets. But this unique brand of therapy drives states to spend more, not less. The "assistance" is so expensive that several governors were begging for relief even before Mr. Obama signed it into law.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704164904575421613093659730.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Higher construction bids at state deaf, blind schools blamed on union-only clause

By Bill Bush
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

The architecture firm that designed improvements for the state deaf and blind schools said the Ohio School Facilities Commission signed off on cost estimates four times, then decided to add a union-only construction clause that probably drove the cost of bids way past the budgeted amount.

The cost impact of the pro-union "project labor agreement" wasn't included in any of the estimates that were sent out for bids, according to a statement from Andrew Maletz, vice president of SHP Leading Design.

The only way to know how much the agreement added to the cost would be to get rid of it, said Rachel Miller, a public-relations consultant for the firm. "It is a suggestion," she said.

State and union officials have said that the design might explain why the bids came back $11.4million over the $28million general-construction budget.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/08/20/higher-bids-blamed-on-union-only-clause.html?sid=101

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Westerville teachers limiting work to terms of contract
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One-year pact expired Tuesday
Thursday, September 2, 2010  02:59 AM
By Charlie Boss
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Westerville teachers started working only to the terms of their contract yesterday, a day after their one-year pact expired.

That means teachers will enter and leave school at designated start and end times and avoid any work not specified in their contracts. No work, including grading, can be taken home.

"This is not something we are trying to police our own folks to make sure they are doing things in a certain fashion," Westerville Education Association President Chris Williams said. "This is a statement about being concerned that we don't have a contract right now and remind ourselves how teachers consistently go above and beyond what the expectations are."

Williams wouldn't say why the district and union haven't reached an agreement. He noted that the union has had a good working relationship with the school board and hasn't taken a "work to rule" action since the late 1970s.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/09/02/copy/teachers-limiting-work-to-contract.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

[Most of the 110 striking workers - all members of the OEA's Professional Staff Union - earn more than $100,000 a year, according to reports filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. For instance, labor-relations consultants - who make up about 80 percent of the striking workers - were paid an average salary of $111,350 in 2009.]

Teachers union has its own labor trouble
Negotiators picket Ohio Education Association over contract disputes
By Catherine Candisky
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Ohio's largest teachers union is having labor problems of its own.

Labor-relations consultants, who help local teachers unions negotiate contracts with school districts, and other employees of the Ohio Education Association walked off the job yesterday morning.

One striking worker was treated at the hospital after suffering minor injuries when he was struck by a car while picketing outside OEA's Downtown offices on E. Broad Street.

Most of the 110 striking workers - all members of the OEA's Professional Staff Union - earn more than $100,000 a year, according to reports filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. For instance, labor-relations consultants - who make up about 80 percent of the striking workers - were paid an average salary of $111,350 in 2009.

That is about $10,000 more than the average Ohio school-district superintendent made last school year, and more than double what the average teacher made, according to the state statistics.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/09/02/copy/teachers-union-has-labor-trouble.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Trumka's Leftism

Politics Of Force: A union chief wants the public to take over private business. Some speak for a generation. Trumka speaks for the intellectually and morally corrupt bloc on the left.

'We need," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said last week, "to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government. That's a long-term job, but one we should start now."

]http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/548821/201009291830/Trumkas-Leftism.htm[url][/url]

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

This should have been called the "Drink the grape kool-aid" rally.  I'll bet completely paid for by union money and they still couldn't fill it Beck-style.  Any pictures of after the event?

The money quote:

While for Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally most of those in attendance were specifically there to see Beck and hear his message, the vast majority of attendees interviewed by The Daily Caller at Saturday’s rally didn’t know who Schultz was, even after he spoke.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/02/unions-naacp-rally-for-%E2%80%98education-justice-and-jobs%E2%80%99-at-lincoln-memorial/#ixzz11IJZCrf4

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Better article here.  Complete with after the rally pictures.

One Trillion Attend One Nation Rally
by Connie Hair

A crowd of about one trillion people attended the hard-left progressive One Nation rally on the Mall Saturday in Washington, D.C. Leave aside for a moment that there are around seven billion people inhabiting the entire planet, attendees came from as far away as Alpha Centauri and Uranus to attend the rally in support of Barack Obama and his big government agenda.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39260

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Union's 'funny money'
TWU prez probed

By TOM NAMAKO, Transit Reporter

The Manhattan DA's Office has opened a far-ranging probe into the Transport Workers Union Local 100's new boss over whether he misused part of its $400,000 pot of political money, The Post has learned.

John Samuelsen -- barely a year after being elected by the 35,000-member union -- is being probed by the DA's newly reorganized Rackets Bureau, sources said.

"There's a focus on political contributions," said a source with knowledge of the probe. "There are unusually high amounts and questions about whether they were properly authorized."


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/union_funny_money_mIQtWBGOm5pErBedZK1sMK#ixzz149sDzZIl

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

This is the Face of the New State Worker Contracts

http://www.wpri.org/blog/?p=1525

[We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money. --Ronald ReaganAl Gore didn't invent the internet, he invented global warmingThe welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants - CamusThe person who advocates government planning of the economy always assumes that it is his plan that will be put into effect. --Hayek]

Sanitation workers targeted specific neighborhoods

By SALLY GOLDENBERG, JOHN DOYLE and JOSH MARGOLIN

EXCLUSIVE

There was a method to their madness.

The selfish Sanitation bosses who sabotaged the blizzard cleanup to fire a salvo at City Hall targeted politically connected and well-heeled neighborhoods in Queens and Brooklyn to get their twisted message across loud and clear, The Post has learned.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sanit_put_key_hoods_on_ice_WzLVUKqeHesqHTCHpR6BcP#ixzz19hglpiWu