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The impending rise of a trade-unionism movement under an Obama administration

Disturbing parallels to post-WWII Great Britain

By: civil truth (Diary)  |  October 20th, 2008 at 11:31 AM  | 

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Among the various interest groups supporting the campaign of Barack Obama (and increased Democratic Party control of Congress, one group that has largely managed to stay under the radar has been the trade-unionist movement in large part being spearheaded by Andrew Stern and his rapidly growing union, SEIU.

In their most recent annual meeting, Mr. Stern emerged from the shadows and years of preparation to make his move towards transforming his union from representing the interests of its members in negotiating their terms of employment, the traditional domain of American unionism, into becoming a dominant political force within the Democratic party, and through their control of the branches of the U.S. – a dominant political force in U.S. politics. And Mr. Stern has made no secret of his desires to move beyond America’s borders to form alliances with labor movements in other countries to create an international trade-unionist movement


Previously, we have been seeing Andrew Stern’s program to expand the number of members in his union through sweetheart deals with favored large corporations, betraying the economic interests of his union’s members through less favorable wage and benefits in new contracts and promising labor peace in return for gaining new members.

In the last annual meeting, we saw two actions: creating centralized and virtually dictatorial control by moving to eliminate any opposition forces, notably California’s Sal Rosselli and the UHW; and diverting to an unprecedented degree dues revenues that in the past have financed strike funds and other programs into political donations to the 2008 elections and specifically to the Democratic party and their candidates.

Evidently, Mr. Stern sees this election as his springboard to political power and the creation of a trade unionism power base with the Democratic party, which he sees has having the opportunity of dominating American politics for the foreseeable future.

So as the reader, you might ask what the implications are for the U.S. and our economy?

This election bears an uncanny resemblance to the election in Great Britain following the end of WWII. In that election, as I understand it, Winston Churchill had defending the nation successfully against German attacks and help bring about victory, yet despite his foreign policy success, the voters threw the Conservatives out of power primarily because of discontent over the economy. This electoral reversal opened the door to trade-union dominance of Britain’s economic policies (and a more isolationist foreign policy that say Britain relinquish its international leadership) via the Labor Party that together strangled the British economy and finally brought the sun down on the British “empire” for generations until Margaret Thatcher broke this stranglehold of the unions and rescued the British economy from its stagnation.

Similarly we have in the U.S. the Republican Party who is gaining victory in Iraq and has suppressed terrorist activity since 9/11 who face electoral annihilation in this election due in substantial part to discontent with the economy. The parallel is not exact in that George Bush has very low popularity (and we do not have a Parliamentary system), but the structural changes that would ensue from an Obama victory, with his socialistic program and the dominant role of unions in the Democratic Party threaten to usher in a period of governmental intervention and union domination that bear eerie similarity to the post WWII policies of the Labor Party in Britain that stifled their economy and largely removed them from the world scene.

Just the new democracies of Eastern Europe are shaking off the fetters of governmental controls and invigorating their economies, the Democratic Party in the U.S. threatens to put us back into bondage to those discredited approaches.

However, one key difference between then and now is that after WWII, the U.S. was able to take the mantle of leadership of the Free World from Britain and restrain the advance of the Soviet Union and world Communism until the Soviet Union fell under Ronald Reagan’s presidency.

Today, if America is removed from its leadership role, no other nation remains to take the mantle to preserve freedom world-wide, which means that Western democracy itself is in grave jeopardy of passing from the face of this planet given the rise of multiple dictatorships that are hostile to to U.S. and the values of Western democracy (notable Russia, China, and Islamic nations such as Iran).

But one key element to maintaining our world leadership is our economic strength; without a strong economy, our military strength and political influence abroad will pass away as well. And the rise of trade-unionism itself (not to mention the clear danger of a more extensive socialist transformation of our nation) will have a devastating effect on our economy, as happened in Britain.

And as I discuss in my companion article Putting it all together: the path to dictatorship, we will face the prospect from other Obama supporters of a movement to move beyond trade-unionism and to utterly destroy democracy in the U.S. in favor of a one-party government, i.e. leftist dictatorship.

[Update:]

As gamecock suggests, though alluded to on my companion post, let me list here three quick actions that Congress and Obama can take that would start us on the road to trade-unionism dominance

  • card check
  • elimination of union reporting requirements (especially regarding union dues and expenditures)
  • elimination of oversight/quashing of investigations into union corruption
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  • gamecock

    why not update your column to include that VERY RELEVANT REASON TO ELECT MCCAIN, who opposes card check and favors continuing to hold the secret ballot sacrosanct?

  • civil_truth

    I alluded to these in my companion article, but probably should list them here as items that Congress and Obama can quickly do:

    • card check
    • elimination of reporting requirements (especially regarding union dues and expenditures)
    • elimination of oversight/quashing of investigations into union corruption
  • MichaelBDR

    After it is passed, it will lay a legal precedence for local, state and national elections for government office. The government positions will go to the party who has the most registered voters automatically. Hence the drive to register so many democrats. Reports of democrats temporarily moving to states low on democrats only to be able to vote there are surfacing now in Ohio. The same will happen in business. When they hire, union members will be transfered to the city and apply until the company has enough union card members to be automatically unionized.

  • Achance

    is in the retail/service sectors, where WalMart is almost an obscession for them.

    Card check does eliminate the employers’ ability to delay an election until the employees’ ardor has cooled, but most of the legal toolkit on challengine a union’s right to represent remain. What is insiduous about the current legislation, much more so than card check, is the mandatory arbitration of the first contract. If you think the bulk of judges are liberal, you should try labor arbitrators.

    The real power is in the public sector unions, none of which are subject to federal reporting or other oversight if they represent only public employees. Since the Blue States are owned by the public employee unions, nobody in a government there is going to peek under their skirts. There has been black letter Constitutional law prohibiting them from using dues money for politics since the eighties. No AG in a Blue State will do anything about it. Just look at the totally perverse history of the WA litigation on teacher dues. GWB had eight years to put some of them in jail and did nothing. My counterpart in CA and I were the ONLY Republican appointed directors of labor relations for a fully unionized state. I could keep them quiet, but was smart enough not to try for more. CA shot for the moon, crashed and burned, and obviously decided that getting along with unions and lefties was a lot easier than fighting them.

    The next attack will be on the right to work states’ labor laws, most of which, NOT coincidentally, are Republican.

  • Achance

    A huge percentage of the publicly funded work in the Country is done under Project Labor Agreements in which the price of union support for the project is that the work will be done union and at D-B or higher wages. Big private projects that require a lot of permitting also often are done with PLAs to get the union’s support through the permitting process. Smart Republicans can have a lot of fun pitting two bedrock D constituencies, labor and greenies, against each other through this process. Unfortunately, all the federal largesse in public works over the last couple of decades has ensured that all the union contractors and labor have all the work they want, so they don’t much care right now about new projects. That dynamic has really dampened labor support here for both ANWR development and a NS gas line. They’ve had so much Davis – Bacon work and have made so much money, they don’t really care about new big projects that will rely on mostly imported labor.

  • civil_truth

    I don’t see that state public employee unions are going to show much increase in numbers or increase political contributions, especially if the state economies continue to crater.

    On the other hand, when you give full rein to SEIU, AFL-CIO, and the Teamsters with the above measures, they will send large increases in contributions to the Democratic party, being freed of oversight over what they do with member dues, as well as being able to coerce new members, as no one (esp. a new NLRB) is going to blow the whistle on their recruiting tactics. It’s going to be open season.

    Employee counter-tactics won’t work very well after the NLRB and the Feds rewrite the rules.

    You’re right about the perniciousness of the arbitration provisions – and the enforced gravy from the arbitrators will solidify support for the union and mollify those who felt coerced initially, making it difficult for the employee to later succeed in decertification (if that’s even left as an option).

    And as you rightly note, when Right to Work is overriden at the Federal level, then we’ll see massive recruitment in those states.

    Again, I see great potential for a strangulating trade-unionism that will exacerbate the other disastrous economic policies of an Obama administration and act as an anchor on future growth.

  • Achance

    coming up for people like me! So, I’m kinda conflicted about it; it is an opportunity for me to get rich if I want to go do real work again. And I’m mercenary enough anymore that I don’t really much care who I work for or what I’m asked to do as long as the money is right. I’ve finally reached that elevated space where I hate Democrat politicians AND Republican politicians pretty much equally.

  • pilgrim

    I think the unions will push to have a Smoot-Hawley type tariff law enacted because they want to protect US labor jobs by making goods made by non-US labor more expensive. This is one of the major laws that made the 1930′s depression in the US a Great Depression for years. Those who fail to learn from history are likely to repeat the same mistakes.

  • muffhugger

    I know a bit about this subject. My first meeting with a union Democrat
    ( Dem.chairperson in fact) was to discuss a hostile work environment that prevented me from doing my job. In fact there was a criminal element that should have been investigated , and the nature of the job, having not been done, also had a Federal Criminal element to it also. It was all squelched and buried with fraudulent ommission and retaliation.

    The Business Manager of the union was a former Commissioner of Administration to the state. A career politician, and though elected several times, he was a looser. Ran against Don Young unsucessfully after leaving the State Senate. He had also been Speaker of the House until a legislative coup unseated him.

    His Business Agents were all either straight out of State D.O.L. or personal cronys. Immediatedly following his transfer to the union he purged anyone who had file a grievance against his Administration.

    One of his other “Great Achievements” was legislation called the “retirement Incentive Program, which included provision for earlier retirement to save the state money. Many took the “RIP” as it was called and subsequently returned to work collecting both pay and retirement. When I first contacted the U.S. D.O.L. I was asked if I knew of any retirement fraud, and my answer was that I did not know, but knowing the people that I had to deal with I could guarantee it. I sent them news of a $5.6 Billion dollar deficite, and within a week, and short months later a special session of both houses was called to work on the problem.

    The Union through both the Business Manager and the Buisness Agents appeared a fraud. They would not compel any action or require investigation of crime in the workplace. They were set on allowing invidious discrimination. When showed letter of the law ehics violation for hiring sexual playthings to unannounced positions there response was “rules don’t matter.”

    I was quickly becomming the victim of a fraud and was suspicious of these characters who I was paying to represent me.

    I found that there had been an ethics complaint filed against the Business Manager for his conflict of interest and violation time limits of taking his job immediately out of his Commissioner of Administration position.. I was told that this was a confidential document by the Attorney General (a lie). I also found out that his fraudulent ommissions were a violation of his stipulation with the state.

    You can read the stipulation here:

    Page 1
    Page 2
    Page 3
    Page 4

    The result of this stipulation was that the Business Manager would not have to file grievances against his own administration, and the incomming governor had a union that would not make a peep as bad as any civil rights or contractual rights were violated.

    Another result was a management dominated workplace, most with questionable qualifications of both education and common sense. And as the Business Agend told me “Rules didn’t matter.”

    Interesting thing that the Governor offered his upper eschelon employees a bonus to opt out of this corrupt relationship, essentially giving them right to work rather than compulsory unionism.

    Of course I had to pursue my grievance in the courts, and not knowing enough about that I filed in the Federal Courts (Can you even do that?) and in another state ( I now know, you can’t do that either but I did.) The Magistrate dismissed, but gave me about five pages of advice on how to do the impossible.

    One thing the Magistrate did glom onto which was in the first page of his findings, a dismissal, was the language in the writ petition “compel an investigation into Administrative impropriety and acts of a criminal nature.”

    I was actually happy to recieve another dismissal without prejudice, having filed only a petition for a writ and no complaint. Called a “judgement” meant I could appeal. My opening brief discussed things about corruption that was the buss about town, VECO, and their relationship to the Stevenses’ and “Legislation that Robs the Permanent” fund among other things. I called the state of affairs “existence of an ethics crisis.” The rest is becomming history.

    The Ninth Circuit held on to the Petition for quite a while, and about a year later there was a Raid on the Legislature. The press release agents were looking for corrupt Oil Tax Legislation, and ethics violations. That investigation now has netted Nine Felons.

    Ted Stevens has been shunned by other R’s not only in Congress but on this board. As of today his trial has now gone to the Jury. Alaskans of both parties are disgusted. And while a large bread-slice shaped sign swings in the wind on Trunk Road in Wasilla proclaiming “Ted’s Toast”

    Now I file again and wait in eager anticipation for the Department of Justice to step in and indict and convict the corrupt AFSCME union members and the management thugs so they can be the “meat” of a corruption sandwich.

    If you have any doubt that a crooked union can rot screw up a a business or Government just look.

    I have highly encouraged Sarah Palin to deal with this problem, as the Magistrate understood “Acts of a Criminal Nature” and she is the one responsible for enforcing the laws both state and federal in the State of Alaska.

    Not like my experience would let me support a Dem, but Sarah needs to forget ‘sportsmanship’ with Alaska’s AFSCME. If she wants to maintain her image as a reformer, blasting these criminal sitting ducks is mandate.

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    *Mr. XXXXXXXXXXXX,

    Once again thank you so much for taking the time to share. Thank you for your warnings regarding this Union/PAC. They are hugely appreciated.

    I am sorry about the horrible experiences you have gone through in these other matters. We have passed your note on to Ms Palin.

    Please don’t hesitate to contact the campaign again in the future.

    Frank Bailey
    Palin for Governor
    http://www.palinforgovernor.com/
    907-339-7967
    “Take A Stand”

  • civil_truth

    This would be right up his alley, and he knows where all the bodies are buried. If you haven’t, you need to; if you have, well then you know what the roadblocks are.

    If you’ve been following RedState for any length of time, you should know his actual name. I’m sure he’s not very hard to find.

    I’m not quite sure what else we RedStaters can do for you – for us to lament “ain’t it awful” doesn’t really accomplish anything.

  • Achance

    He’s also been blammed here under several different handles and has been banned from every State office in Juneau. Oh, and I’m the management thug he’s having fantasies about serving up to the DOJ.

    In his more lucid moments he can almost sound sane, but I assure you that only a little of his story is true and his silly pro se actions had nothing to do with the FBI’s interest in Alaska.

  • civil_truth

    After reading his litany of grievances – having read such obsessive screeds before and knowing the degree of rationality of those authors – I didn’t have much expectation that “Muff” was playing with a full deck.

    What I really wanted to write was that if he’d spoken with you and he’s still writing this tale of woe, he’s obviously peddling a pile of…bull excrement.

    But I thought I’d be a bit ingenuous just in case.

    And I figured that mentioning your name would either flush him out or send him scurrying back into the shadows.

    Looks like the latter case

    (And now that you mentioned it, I do remember you were being stalked at RedState a while back.)

  • muffhugger

    I am familiar with Arthur and what his group of people do.

    Unfortunate for him the State Employee Ethics Act proscribes inaction and retaliation, and there were violations of that which he ignored.

    Mr.Chance is one of the most cowardly people I have ever met in my life. He runs from problems he is paid to resolve. For a maximum donation to the Murkowski campaign he was given a position where he was probably severely underqualified. Now Murkowski’s Chief of Staff has agreed to a sentencing deal for his proffer.

    Why is it you may ask does he never discuss any certificate of completion of a post secondary education from a Major University? That alone is indicative of what he really represents, which is ignorance and feigning ignorance when faced with wanton violation of state and Federal Laws.

    His vague arguments against causation tend towards “I ate Supper and the sun went dowen. Did my eating dinner cause the sun to go down?”

    The fact is when a Union business Manager agrees to not represent any union member (read the stipulation in ther links) the workplaces become a corrupt free-for all for management tyranny. Proscribed retaliation becomes the rule, rather than being forbidden.

    The Duncan stipulation, File 223-03-0342, which an Attorney General fraudulently claimed was confidential, is smoking gun evidence of conspiracy with the Administration and Union. Mr. Chance was a willful participant in this conspiracy.

    And if there’s any better guage of Mr chance’s loosing a grasp on reality his post nail it where on the ADN he mistakenly claims:

    ” When it is over, few if any will be convicted. Frankly, I don’t have any illusions about the ethical challenges some of them have, but proving it beyond a reasonable doubt is another matter altogether.”

    Contrary to his apologetic predictions, at this point the DOJ is batting a thousand and Ted Stevens will likely be the tenth to be receiving sentence. My pleadings before the court referenced Ernie Fletcher whose illegal policies were exposed by a mechanic who made labor complaints. It is Labor Management which brought attention to the State of Alaska. In all fairness I did in fact contact every legislator I could to discourage litigation , now many of them are in prison. Unfortunately Achance has long relied on the complexity (and conflicts of interest) of the courts as a firewall for illegal activity. This one was his lifetime mistake.

    The fact is that Arthur has played a major role in tarnishing the Republican Brand with his conspiring and lying in an official capacity. There’s only so far he could twist the truth before he found himself perpetrating a retaliatory fraud and doing it through the use of the U.S. Mails.

    He has the curse of the Writ as I call it. I predict his fear- living in a blue state- will pan out either by the state of Alaska having democrat representation in congress or by being put in the Federal camp in Oregon. Hopefully in the event, he can take a dozen or so of his Union Democrat chums with him.

    But at least you know why I dispise the Union Democrats. Hopefully you are a bit more enlightened about your fellow redstate’er. As another has said, Achance has some ‘splainin’ to do.

  • muffhugger

    I’m suprised you couldn’t smell it, the Bovine Excrement, that is. Smell it now?

    As much of it as gets shoveled by the AFSCME Local 52 and Labor Management, you should be able to smell it from where you sit.

    “Few if any will be Convicted” is now turned into few if any will be acquitted. Oh there have been a few counts that were not proven, but for factual sakes, the criminals are being found guilty and put in prison at a 100% success rate. If you want to read the Opening Brief it’s in the Ninth Circuit. Case 05-35694. The last Agent I visited was interested in what I had, adn took a few copies, but said he didn’t need the brief as it was public record. Spent a couple hours discussing corruption with him.

    It’s good to see the interest in the State of Alaska, DOJ and otherwise. And the menutia is some of the best insight into the reason for DOJ interest. After all, when America’s major energy sources like TAPS is put in jeopardy by Labor Managemet who retaliates against employees concerns about corrosion it affects us all at the pump if not the Nation’s security itself.

    And just to think, It started, or at least ran continuously through the Democratic Knowles Administration. And there were more than just Democrats playing it.

    Now shall we indict some of the Democrat crookies, too? It’s only fair.

  • muffhugger

    Convictions could work pretty well, but as discussed squelching investigations can work just as well, and it happens and is happening as we breathe. Exposing the corruption and convicting criminals is the best way to end EFCA. Carpe Diem, Sarah. Your state is the best place to set some examples. Don’t think of it as busting unions, think of it as busting CRIMINALS.

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Palin for Governor to me show details 4/27/06

    Reply:

    Hi XXXXXXXXXX, Sarah has received very little support from unions to date. I can’t speak for her directly. However I will try to answer your question and need more information from you. While she is certainly not anti-union, she does stand firm on her belief and whether union or not, she will not arrive in Juneau owing “favors” to anyone. Before sending this email our researcher checked to see if we had received any money from the Union PAC you are talking about. We have not. Your note is well taken and we appreciate you giving us a heads up. XXXXXX we have sent your note on to Sarah as well. Thanks so much.

    Frank Bailey
    Palin for Governor

    http://www.palinforgovernor.com/ 907-339-7967
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Here is a good newsletter, and website by the way.

    EFCA: No Time To Lose
    We are only 2 weeks away from what at this point looks like a big win for Barack Obama and a substantial – perhaps filibuster-proof – Democratic majority in the Senate. Many people we’ve talked to over the last several months about the Free Choice Act have told us they are waiting until after the elections before they do anything. I have a feeling many of those will say that they are going to wait until the legislation passes before they take action after the election.
    These “conservative” strategies seem logical. After all, why prepare for a change in the laws when you don’t even know what the rules are going to be? But the strategies are not logical. And they’re not conservative. They are reckless. Companies who aren’t fully engaged in devloping an action plan and educating new and incumbent employees right now about union cards are going to be sorry.
    read the rest of the article here…

  • Achance

    with a new screen name. This is our old pal salmonshark, specialagentroswell, and a whole bunch of other screen names. The name changes, but the psychosis remains the same.

  • Jack_Savage

    Man. I wish I had one of those. Well, actually, I kinda did once, and it was creepy.

    Has he hacked into your e-mail account yet? Do you think he sucks down nitrous like the dentist in “Little Shop Of Horrors” before he types? Do you think he has any lights in his basement apartment? Am I now, perhaps, in danger?

    I can’t wait to see some of the peer – reviewed academic articles about these guys in the psychology journals.

  • Jack_Savage

    Man. I wish I had one of those. Well, actually, I kinda did once, and it was creepy.

    Has he hacked into your e-mail account yet? Do you think he sucks down nitrous like the dentist in “Little Shop Of Horrors” before he types? Do you think he has any lights in his basement apartment? Am I now, perhaps, in danger?

    I can’t wait to see some of the peer – reviewed academic articles about these guys in the psychology journals.

  • muffhugger

    And they have rebuked Ted as being an Arrogant S.O.B and porker.

    Lord knows that they have more important things to condemn than their own, like EFCA.

    So geuss what, Bub? (mind if I call you bub?)

    Get it out of your narcissistic pinhead mind that I’m here to stalk you by any means. I am here to talk about the things that are corrupting MY country, and which will continue to corrupt MY country unless there is significant agtion is not taken.

    As with other things I describe, and contrary to YOUR actions, inaction is NOT prescribed.

    You have only proven my point that you are a coward with this post, and though the information I provide may not be received well, unlike you I am not a narcissistic pinhead whining for approval. I’m the messenger who you targeted for whatever stupid reason, and which stupidity you could now revoke.

    Your state is in a shamble of corruption, that fact is not deniable. It is a fact, period. People want to know the details. I can give some pointers as to what caused it(and it’s not all repubs as we hear in the press).

    So why don’t go get your security blanket and go suck your thumb. Tell us the Big Story of yours that you have some sort of educaation that qualified for a job besides just your Political Contributions.

    Few if any convicted, that’s a hoot, Achance. Any idiotic predictions on which way the Jury is going to decide with Ted?

    Thanks, Moe.

  • janis

    .

  • Achance

    The following series of posts is what you get to look forward to. It is open season on you for any idiot who thinks he has some freedom of speech and a gripe against the government. There’s nothing you can really do about it because first, few such idiots have anything worth sueing them for, and second, if you hold an elected or appointed position, you’re a public figure and subject to the public figure libel standard; they can say whatever they want about you and it is hard to prove knowing falsehood when the person telling the story is demonstrably detached from any known universe.

  • Jack_Savage

    But I will give him a little compassion he owns up to the nitrous.

    Seriously – do you actually know this individual?

  • Achance

    He got fired from a nothing job on my watch. The rest he pretty much made up.

  • Jack_Savage

    Seriously.

    This doesn’t even warrant a “bless his heart” after the words “his biscuits ain’t all done.”

  • muffhugger

    Don’t you think that putting corrupt union officials in the clink is a good idea?

    Now that’s crazy. That’s Plumb loco.

  • muffhugger

    Negating the first ever of it’s kind raid on your State’s Legislature by the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice. How would you rate this for negating the indictments?

    “When it’s over with , few if any will be convicted”

    Sounds to me like someone is clueless, and not very good at ‘negating.’

    Now don’t you think that raids on a Union Business Manager’s office would be in order if he had commit himself to two or more years of fraud?

    Don’t you think Virginia Fox would have some helpful fodder in her fight against EFCA if this happened in a timely manner? And that she could show the criminal activity present in a state workplace that follows the negotiation of this type of agreement?

    It’s there on the low lying branches, ready for easy pickin’s.

  • muffhugger

    Which of any you can see and point out for us that was “made up?”

    Was it the part where the union Business Manager agreed that he could take his job if he wouldn’t do anything? Is that made up?

    No.

    Was it that Frank Bailey and the Palin Administration KNEW of a corrupt union BEFORE she was governor? Is that made up?

    No.

    Is it that the Ninth Circuit was asked to investigate the Stevens’ relationship to VECO and legislation that robs the Permanent fund? Is that made up?

    NO.

    Was it anything you can point to and refute with any sort of FACTS?

    No.

    Is it that you gave a Maximum Donation to the Murkowski campaign? Is that made up?

    No.

    Is it that Ted Stevens was rebuked by his own party long before his indictment?

    No.

    Just vitrol. That’s all that anyone can come up with. Vitrol and lies and corruption. Nothing you can point to with any specificity that is “made up” is there. See how you are?

    Some show of integrity from a former SOA public official. My state has now become the ‘corrupt bastard’ laughing stock of the whole country, and who is at fault? I sure didn’t ask for it.

    But don’t worry , as for your chums in the AFSCME, Few if any will be Convicted. They are trying to get the investigation squelched. The SA in Seattle that said he was thinking of sending up a ‘team’ was transferred out to another office a long time ago. But he was concerned about the $5.6 Billion deficit in the retirement system.

  • muffhugger

    Do’s AND don’ts:

    Don’t break the law.

    Do keep people from breaking the law.

    Don’t cover up violations of the law.

    Do post opportunities instead of keeping them a secret for Quid Pro Quo’s.

    Do settle grievances in a fair and transparent manner at the lowest possible level, especially if that’s in your job description.

    Don’t create a fraud for someone trying their best to comply with the law.

    Do understand anti-retaliation provisions.

    Don’t ignore people that put a 140 page Writ on your desk asking for a FEDERAL INVESTIGATION.

    Do investigate and discipline or terminate a worker who a assaults or creeps into womens’ cabins in the middle of the night.

    Don’t go to court knowing you are going to loose.

    Do honor contractual agreements.

    Do not rely on a corrupt union to foist away valid accusations against your Administration.

    Do your best to fulfil your department’s mission statements.

    Do not abuse people’s civil or contractal rights.

    And there’s a few more things here to consider, but that’s a general primer of how to keep the D.O.J respecting your state’s sovreignty. It’s a little late to undo most of the stuff but you can make it up to U.S.

  • mbecker908

    putting corrupt officials in jail.

    I would also note that, based on your rather amazing posting history, I would recommend involuntary confinement to a mental institution for you. In the world of fruitcakes, you rank at the top bubba.

    Tell ya what, just for fun why don’t you leave the State of Alaska alone (since they’ve obviously seen fit to quarantine you) and take on the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

  • Achance

    It must really s@#k to be you, John.

  • muffhugger

    It’s a great way to make the attempt to discredit someone who has blown the whistle, but this is a case of it just backfired, didn’t it.

    But the involuntary confinements are all the posession of Alaska’s elected officials. Many more are on the way, and just because they aren’t Republicans or are no longer elected, the union goons will get theirs, too.

    If you need, see for yourself, here is a list of the involuntary lockups. It may even tell you where they are, and it seems most are going to Sherman Oregon FCI. Vic Kohring went to the California desert somewhere, and Robert Hayes and his wife Chris went to two different places in Texas.

    I hope you can make it in to visit some of them so they can say thanks for your support face to face. For that one who is so visceral about being in a Blue state, he better work on a plea agreement so he can avoid Oregon or California.

    And to be sure I am sane, but I can sure laugh like a mad hatter at the ones who played your game.

  • muffhugger

    It’s a good thing Sarah quit her job because she would have been dealing with the same load if lies that have been thrown at me for raising ethics and other issues.

    I see you can still not answer for any post secondary education.

    You can’t point to anything I say that is untrue.

    What is the deal that makes a narcissisitic pinhead like you think you are better than anyone else when you can’t stand for an agrument on facts?

    Are you just too used to making up fraudulent schemed and it scares you when someone confronts you with facts?

    Guess what, Jim Clark owes some pretty big favors to the D.O.J Public Integrity section after arranging 68,000 worth of political polling with company A for Murkowski, paid by Veco, And he’s already taken a guilty plea agreement. Who does he have left to throw under the bus?

    I told you a long time ago you should be approaching them and cooperating instead of playing games. Ted Stevens’ fate is in front of a Jury right now.

    Do you think they are ever going to give a two bit narcissitic pinhead like yourself any leniency at this point? I know of at least a couple things you put in the mail that was to further a fraud. There must be hundreds in your career.

    Does that not cause you any anxiety that all the people around you are now willing to roll over? If it doesn’t you need treatment either way.

    Like Ted says, the worst thing that could happen is an enormous legal bill and a few years in the penn. Too you couldn’t have been the one to spin it onto JD and KM and the other Democrats involved in corruption. I am left to do that.

    Sleep tight.

  • Achance

    Nothing like a creature that just follows you around all over the universe. I’d call it loyalty but it sucks too much. This thing’s like Freddie Kruger; it just won’t die. Every time somebody blams it, it comes back to life with a new name and the same old psychosis.

  • Achance

    I know you’re pretty much homeless and unemployable these days, but Alaska does have an elaborate social welfare system; you can get the meds that you need. It’s getting to be winter and staying in the homeless campground on the mountain above town might be pretty demanding for someone with your delicate sensibilities. Turn yourself in to JAMI or at least check in to the Glory Hole for some good meals and medical care; they might even prescribe some meds for you. I’m thinking a few thousand mgs of Thorazine would really improve your socialization skills.

  • Moe_Lane

    Playing with the kid. So, actually, no, not really “sorry” – I’d make the same choice again, after all… :)

  • Achance

    but I only have cats around any more. Only one kid home at all, the one that just got out of the Army, and he’s not around much and is off to CA for a while today.

    Never thought I’d say it, but I kinda miss them sometimes.

  • mbecker908

    I’ll take Art. Unless I’m choosing who sits on the ice floe.

    Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back pinhead.

  • mbecker908

    I’m surprised he’s not in a lock-up in AK. The guy must be a real piece of work in person. I’d also note he’s lucky he’s messing with people who have significantly more patience and tolerance than I do. I’d have fed him to my little friend long before this.

  • Achance

    to get locked up for it here; he’s hardly noticeable on the crazy scale. He’s just a pest who’s fixated on me. I just wish I’d actually been the one who fired him. I think it happened during the Knowles Administration when I was still a classified employee. He had a complaint that was still live when I was director and came up to my office and was giving a member of my staff a hard time so I threw him out and had him banned from the main State Office Building in Juneau. He’d already been banned from several buildings.

    Anyway, he lives in this fantasy world of lawsuits and court cases that are never going to happen and seems to believe that his rantings have something to do with the FBI investigations here. As to me, with all the enemies I’ve made over the years, if anyone had anything on me, I’d have been under the jail years ago.

  • civil_truth

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  • Chief_Runamok

    But here’s something to make you puke your rum on your keyboard:

    25 “For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27 “And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? 28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, 29 yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. 30 “But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! 31 “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
    34 “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

    I figure a little book of Matthew might make a vile person like you puke up your soul if you had one.

    Not like I’m any holy roller or anything like that but I had some upbringing that seems void in your psyche.

    And thanks for the concerns. I have a frdge full of food and another full of beers, several flavors.

    I have a garden , and lately have been on a giet of chips and salsa with mostly home grown stuff. Had to deal with a bunch of tomatos after it finally froze.

    Even with the food in the fridge I eat out at a sit down waitress like restraunt or buffet almost every day. The other day my fortune cookie said:your contribution is significant.

    I never even filed for unemployment until I knew your idiots were going to make a statutory illegal hire. It brings in more potential defendants.

    For your information I’m in a nice warm motel room waiting to sort through some court records in Roswell, NM where Allen and Stevens do their business. Ask you RS buddies if the IP address confiems that.

    It’s nice to see that the links are left up so your RS buddies can learn your role in Alaska’s corruption. If they had any common sense they would be putting corrupt idiots like you on their “LEPER LIST.”

    Thanks for your concerns.

    ArtChance wrote on 11/11/2008 11:12:41 AM:
    Alaska’s greatest political irony is that Wiemar was once widely believed to be a major drug dealer. Many thought he was the economic muscle behind the Ad Hoc Democrats of the ’70s, the McGovernite wing that siezed the Party and State government at a vital time in the Pipeline Era. The Palmer paper once branded Wiemar and his then-sidekick Bill Parker as the two most dangerous men in Alaska. There’s a good story in how Wiemar came to run DOCs drug programs, rake in huge sums for halfway houses, and how Parker came to be the Deputy Commissioner of DOC. Since it all involves some very prominent Democrats, I’m confident the ADN won’t touch it. Sarah’s shoes are more interesting, right?

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    truthgazer wrote on 11/11/2008 11:45:39 AM:
    Artchance, you paint quite a big brush against all Democrats of the 70s. A lot of us like to think of those days as the time when we all meant something to each other, before big oil moved in and took over our political system. Sure, there were those who were on the dark side of BOTH parties. The 60′s and 70′s also brought us Hugh Malone (Democrat) and Jay Hammond (Republican who supported Dem. Fran Ulmer against Rep. Frank Murkowski) who worked together to give Alaskans the PFD. Big oil still believes that they are “giving the little people of Alaska,” what should be all theirs. The corruption continues and it will because legislators who are simpletons continue to be elected and can be bought cheaply, very cheaply.

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    mikeswick wrote on 11/11/2008 12:00:45 PM:
    Art Chance not let us forget Frank Prewitt and his relationship its not fair to just hit on Bill Parker

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    clarity wrote on 11/11/2008 12:05:00 PM:
    artchance – since you’re pointing fingers at D’s, care to talk about all those R’s currently holding very high positions within the State that are known past drug dealers/users? It must hurt knowing so many of Alaska’s R’s have been going down and more to come, many ending up in our federal pens. And, Sarah’s, “shoes,” aren’t so interesting any longer, perhaps to you they are. Above all, Weimer will receive his due and rightly so; just another crook among many in Alaska.

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    vrlind wrote on 11/11/2008 12:29:49 PM:
    I would be surprised if art chance is a Rep. from some of his other posts it did not appear that way

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    fsmith wrote on 11/11/2008 12:53:15 PM:
    Art Chance was the guy in charge of treating state employees like garbage, in the Murkowski administration. In July 8th ’06 he bragged in the Daily News: “Most state employees are seriously underpaid. I helped make them that way.” Sarah is so bad in this respect, that the people who keep the state running are now wishing for the “good ‘ol Murky days.”

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    cgallagher2 wrote on 11/11/2008 01:37:33 PM:
    Nickname: a$$h%e@**i.net Location: Juneau, AK USA Birthday: September 3(SavedRemind mePlease RetryPlease Retry) Anniversary: September 22 In My Own Words: I was born and raised in rural Georgia to and old by by then shabby family trying to eke out a living on an old and by then shabby farm. I have always loved learning and hated school, so my education is my own. I was born a Southerner, a Baptist, and a Democrat, then I learned to read. In the early ’70s, I let slip the surly bonds of The South and moved to Alaska where I remain and will probabl? Read more I was born and raised in rural Georgia to and old by by then shabby family trying to eke out a living on an old and by then shabby farm. I have always loved learning and hated school, so my education is my own. I was born a Southerner, a Baptist, and a Democrat, then I learned to read. In the early ’70s, I let slip the surly bonds of The South and moved to Alaska where I remain and will probably die – unless I die in the Winter, in which case it will be Mexico.

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    akvinnie wrote on 11/11/2008 02:04:06 PM:
    This is a blog about the felony mis-conduct of Bill Weimer. Art Chance is a big bag of wind who sit’s around in smokey bar’s telling Faulkner like tales of how important he is-was- to any and all who will listen. Art Chance was an insider to Juneau and all it’s political sleaze and he never stepped forward once and raised the ethical flag of mis-conduct. Because many times he was the designer and messenger of many bad deeds and he wore those stripes with honor. But let’s get off that garbage truck and get back to Weimer. Bill Weimer white collar criminal shows us with a year in jail or less; that buying politicans and getting millions of state dollars through sole source contracts that crime really does pay.

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    cgallagher2 wrote on 11/11/2008 02:23:10 PM:
    Thanks Vinnie for bagging the windbag! Weimer is the point and if he lied to the judge about not having a record, he of all people then the truth be out!

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    ilovelucy wrote on 11/11/2008 02:51:24 PM:
    Art Chance missed a few chapters in Weimar’s life – where he turned into a Republican like Chance and tried to take down his buddies who remained true to the Ad Hoc Democratic principles. Like most corrupt bastards, he let the promise of money lead him to the dark side. And Chance is well-aware of what he’s leaving out – but it’s too tempting to strike out at all the people he dislikes. What an awful human being.

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    wildbill3 wrote on 11/11/2008 03:01:02 PM:
    Chance pre-dated Murkowski, he also worked in the Knowles administration, and others. He was a director and deputy director for years under a number of governors. He knew the personnel rules better than anyone and seldom lost when he was challenged in arbitration. He had as I remember a low opinion of state employees. I’ll say this though, cgallagher2 you have no business posting the mans email address on this board. That is a bit below the belt. Kind of like when akvinnie posted my last name. I have never reciprocated because it shows a lack of consideration and is low-class. I have no love for the Art Chance either but I would not even do that to akvinnie, and I have his email in my database (I thought we were friends once.) Wiemer is a very, very bad man and it took a lot of work to keep him in check with the many friends he had in Juneau. Wiemer was tied to Sheffield, Barns, Ward, Mulder, Knowles and many, many others. When he and Bill Allen teamed up they where quite the duo.

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    wildbill3 wrote on 11/11/2008 03:15:44 PM:
    Weimer never turned into a republican, he remains a card carrying democrat today. He bought politicians on both sides of the aisle. He donated money to both parties to open doors. He has no scruples what so ever and worked all parties to achieve his personal goal of acquiring wealth. People on the left and the right voted his way for a number of reasons. Some voted because they thought private prisons were a fine idea, others voted because he held sway over there vote in some way. There were in fact connections to Weimer and drugs early in his career while an Ad-Hock Democrat and lawyer. Supposedly he traded drugs for native art and expensive walrus and whale parts in western Alaska. AST investigated him, but were never able to get enough to prosecute, though they were convinced he was dealing.

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    VladimirMPalin wrote on 11/11/2008 04:43:24 PM:
    What a finger pointing hypocracrit A Chance has become. Was a thousand hits of LSD for personal consumption? If so it would explain what a Whack-Job was in charge of employee relations for too long. Do you think the Fourth Amendment is going to protect you once the Public integrity Section seizes the webservers at AKLRA and AFSCME? I think that the proof of Mail Fraud can lead to those warrants. I was 19, driving an XKE, and had no visible means of support, which facts raised the ire of the local constabulary when I went home to visit my parants in ’69. There then arose a dispute over the two kilos of pot and thousand hits of acid in the trunk of said XKE. The Deputy Sheriff really should have had probable cause for that stop, and to this day I am the World’s greatest fan of the 4th Am. —

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    Voiceofthe_Crimes wrote on 11/11/2008 07:16:34 PM:
    It surprises Art Chance to see Bill Weimar like any other convicted. Maybe he should go back to being an annonymous idiot. ~~~~~~ May 31, 2007 – 1:41am | Black3 [ ]Likewise, corruption indictments; a decent prosecutor can, literally, indict a hamburger. And in case nobody has noticed, prosecutor’s motives often have absolutely nothing to do with the pristine pursuit of truth and justice. Most political corruption cases are questions of causation v. correlation. Acme Enterprises gave Rep. Y money, Rep. Y voted for something good for Acme Enterprises. The Sun sets after I eat dinner. Did my eating dinner cause the Sun to set? This board and the News have already convicted everyone indicted and several that haven’t been. When it is over, few if any will be convicted. Frankly, I don’t have any illusions about the ethical challenges some of them have, but proving it beyond a reasonable doubt is another matter.

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    cgallagher2 wrote on 11/11/2008 07:29:10 PM:
    Sorry Wildbill but I just copied Mr. Chances own autobio off his own post at Amazon. Anyone could google it. I never heard of him before. He wrote it not me.

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    akvinnie wrote on 11/11/2008 11:46:12 PM:
    The Republican Corrupt Bast. Club really started initially under the Bill Weimer day’s althought they had no gang name or affiliation at the time; just the color of money. They rose to power and dominance under Wally Hickel’s Administration. The Corrupt Weimer contributed to both political parties but only Democrat’s who had a remote chance of winning and where he could peddle his influence on them. If not he loaded his funds to the known Political Party of influence peddleing for hire. The early well rewarded members of Weimers club to privitize Corrections was Representative Ramona Barnes who managed Corrections daily from her office. Senator Jerry Ward the frequent bill for hire legislator. Then, None should forget how clever man the House Finance Chairman Eldon Mulder use to be. YES, All Republicans! There were more paid off Republicans during those days but I think the average reader get’s the picture.

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    I posted to the ADN politics blog
    Achance September 11th, 2008 at 4:23 p.m. CDT (link)
    a week or ten days ago under my full name that were I still there, I’d have told the Investigator to “Go F@#$ himself.” That went over real well with the Lefties that hang there. A couple of the people on his subpoena list are former subordinates and coworkers of mine and I pounded into their heads that if a subpoena didn’t have a judges name on it, you considered it to be an invitation that you had the right to ignore. And even if it did have a judges name on it, you might want to see if another judge agreed. Guess some of that stuck.
    In Vino Veritas

  • Wubbies_World

    This is getting a bit crazy isn’t it?