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Jaime Herrera (R CAND, WA-03): Stealth SEIU Supporter?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 24th, 2010 at 10:20 PM  | 

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Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I am growing quickly disinclined to get dragged into primary political battles for the 2010 election.  This is partially because I’m getting to a position where I know some of the folks involved in the campaigns (which is why I’m counting the days until the California primaries are over), and partially because it’s going to be a free-for-all for some of these seats (part of the problem with having so many Democratic seats up for grabs).  So, it’ll take a bit to get me to note something in particular about a GOP primary candidate.

A 2008 SEIU endorsement will do.  I’m not as ready as that poster is to tie WA-03 Republican candidate Jaime Herrera to ACORN, but taking money from the Purple People Beaters is quite bad enough (see here and here for corroboration that State Rep. Herrera did in fact get endorsed by SEIU).  Mind you, I’m perfectly ready to believe that she regrets that endorsement now, too – but now would also be a good time for her to indicate said regrets.  Put another way: at the moment Herrera is talking about Big Labor, which is great… but as a state legislator she courted Big Labor, which makes at least an explanation germane.  And when you have an unexplained disconnect between current rhetoric and past rhetoric, it looks bad if it gets out.

And it will get out.  Somebody will always be happy to pass someone else a quiet word.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • NeoKong

    Tea party or smell farty. That’s how it goes now.
    Sucking to SEIU or to ACORN just tells us that we have a cylon in our midst.

  • jfindl2

    or did they just give it to her b/c she voted their way on an issue?

  • hickorystick

    The SEIU your talking about is the Teachers Union. Gary Locke crossed horns with them, to balance the budget, and was shown the door before the next election. Her district includes Vancouver, WA as well, which is a suburb to Portland. Irritating, but not a fatal flaw. She got Slade Gorton’s endorsment, Danny heck got Gregoire’s, nough said.

  • lightnermarie

    I’ve been reading this blog for a while and think it’s time somebody asked? You all seem to go after women with a vengeance. Why is that?

  • Doc Holliday
  • lightnermarie

    no wonder there is a 20- 30 point gender gap.

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    we go after ANYONE who fails to represent the interests of the American people – especially, if they choose instead to represent “special” interests. That they are occasionally women isn’t our problem. Given what we do here, it’d be sexist NOT to go after them for it.

  • Doc Holliday

    in fact is has been proven that Republicans would have won every presidential election in the modern age if women could not vote. But my response was to your trollish comment.

  • lightnermarie

    A quick search of the posts on Pat Tiberi or Pete King suggests otherwise.

  • Doc Holliday

    I can’t think of a single time I have “gone after women” in a post., until you lol.

  • Aaron Gardner

    Yeah that’s it. Get out of here.

  • lightnermarie

    who else wants to put us back in the kitchen?

  • Doc Holliday

    I want to take your vote away. I would do it with a basic knowledge test.

  • Swamp_Yankee

    I abhor sexism in all its forms, especially when the girl is HOT.

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    Okay, this HAS to be somebody playing a game. there’s no way you can be this stupid and still turn on the computer.

  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    Okay, NOW I’m gonna get my feminist on! erick? Neil? WTF!? WHY haven’t we gone after Peter #@&*ing King as much as lightnermarie feels we should have?!

  • Richard Mullins

    Connection to the SEIU isn’t a good thing when trying to be a republican, but it’s great if you want to be a Democrat. We don’t need anymore those type of people in Government right now, we need honest people not those with connections to Anti-American union.

  • Aaron Gardner

    I was pointing out how stupid lightnermarie was being in her accusation of sexism.

    It isn’t her sex that’s the issue, it’s her involvement with SEIU.

    So I think you and I are in agreement, no?

  • Richard Mullins

    and the sexism charge is one of deflection.

  • lightnermarie

    go after whomever you want, just seems that you go after the women as closet squishes, but ignore the other guys who have similar views. That’s what searches of your posts suggest. I think we should be trying to bring us women in instead of saying that if they couldn’t vote none of this would have happened.

  • lightnermarie

    Do you think women agree with Doc’s comments? Republicans can win but for women voters? Hardly the way to the majority.

  • Doc Holliday

    B) i illustrated your absurdity by being absurd. You think you will get friends here by this course? I don’t even need to respond to you, everyone knows your game.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    If you think that of us then you won’t mind me turning off your account.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Have to nip it in the bud.

  • nessa

    I mean really! Obviously she wasn’t getting any dishes washed or meals cooked.

  • javsnyc

    In his budget, Paterson proposed a number of new taxes, the closure of facilities and other measures to suit a political agenda. With the end of his tenure well within sight, what is to come of these initiatives and the outside agencies that support them?

    It is hard to believe that the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) 1199 will simply allow the two million dollars investment in the soda tax simply fall to the wayside. We know whom the SEIU had in their pocket. And how that black-handed, double-dealing agent worked out for them.

    So who will be the new face of the SEIU?s regressive policy for New York? What politician would be willing to back a union in their money grab from hardworking middle and lower classes of New York?

    SEIU should take care of involving itself in politics. Back in 2003, the SEIU chastised AFL-CIO for being overly involved elections. Now in 2010, it is hypocritical that they should be involved in a campaign to burden New Yorkers with a new tax. The SEIU is backing a tax on the middle and lower class, the very same janitors, elevator operators and window washers who formed the union back in 1921.