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SEIU runs from Obama, dumping $142,000 on Tim Burns ad attacks

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  May 14th, 2010 at 07:44 PM  | 

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Trying to keep is purple fingers on the throats in the pockets of the late Jack Murtha’s constituents, the SEIU is dumping $142,000 on ads trying to defeat GOP candidate Tim Burns in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District.

The SEIU’s ad tries to tie Burns to “special interests” because of campaign contributions.

The commercial matches up with other Democratic-aligned groups advertising in the district: it avoids any mention of the policies of the Obama administration or the Democratic Congress, focusing instead on a purely economic message that depicts Burns, a former businessman, as out of step with the struggles of working class voters.

Oddly, the SEIU ignores the fact that the SEIU is…well...a special interest.
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  • E Pluribus Unum

    I wonder if all that many of the members they confiscate that money from in union dues really agrees with what they are doing.

  • itrytobenice

    Tim Burns is going to take PA12 and the SEIU will have flushed another wad of cash into another losing district. I hope they go all in in 2010. We can bleed them dry.

    Their agenda is getting attention now and that can’t do anything but help us.

  • renny

    Andy Stern’s leadership in supporting ACORN and little o and every other libidiot idea floating around.

    There’s a reason he’s jumping the SEIU ship. It is already,like Europe, sinking.