Steele Steals Steelworkers' ID

[Earth Bound Misfit]

To borrow a line from a 50’s quiz show: Will the real United Steelworker please stand up? Michael, you sit down! Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele is engaged in a bit of identity theft. He’s launched a new GOP fundraising website—United STEELE Workers Union. With the Republican “brand” polling about as well as Kim Jong Il, it’s not surprising the RNC wants to duck its real name.

Good GRIEF, these PUKES make me sick!:puke:

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/06/19/steeling-a-unions-id/

STEELING a Union’s ID

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has been called a lot of names. Here’s another one for him: cheater.

It’s not surprising Steele and the Republicans are embarrassed about their party. But Steele has hit a new low: He’s set up an RNC fundraising page on Facebook made to look like it’s the United Steelworkers union.

The “United STEELE Workers Union” page even features a hard hat with an American flag sticker front and center.

Just curious, Michael: Doesn’t a white hard hat clash with your designer suits?


Steele’s rip-off is another blatant and egregious attempt to align the party of NO ideas and NO appeal with progressive and forward-looking groups, in this case, the union movement—because the party can’t get anywhere on its own. And with a pathetic 21 percent of the public willing to identify themselves as Republican and four in 10 of those Republicans having an unfavorable opinion of their own party, it’s looking worse than ever for the Party of NO.

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Steele posing as a member of the United Steelworkers is an insult to the 1.2 million active and retired members of the Steelworkers whose proud history of taking a stand for workers emerged in the hard-boiled 1930’s struggles for union recognition as part of the CIO’s industry-wide organizing strategy.

Yet here’s what the False STEELE workers’ page proclaims as its goals:

This group is dedicated to help the new RNC Chairman Michael Steele get the GOP moving for the 2010, 2012 elections and beyond.

We will be a grassroots force ready to answer the call from Mr. Steele.
We will organize.
We will campaign.
We will fight to win our country back.

Organize? Campaign? Grassroots? More rip-offs of the union movement.

Here’s the real—and extremely partial—list of Michael Steele’s RNC goals:

Destroy jobs.
Oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.
Kill health care reform.
Disenfranchise minority voters.
Smash efforts to equalize women’s pay.
Shred civil liberties.
Pad Big Business coffers.
Lie.
Cheat.
Steal.

This is a cross-post from the Firedoglake blog.

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[msongs]

1. he is the repub's token black person. among other things lol nt

[HillbillyBob]

2. Typical Rpukes, steal anything not nailed down or even if it is.

He will probably lie about it too.
Has he ever done any real work? Like producing or building anything?
I can honestly say I have, I grew up working on grandparents farm, another grandfathers car dealership. As an adult (which does not seem to describe many polyticks(bloodsuckers)) I worked as a Heavy Industrial Construction Electrician, also did pneumatic HVAC controls, made furniture, did old house and antique restorations. I have also worked my own fair share of restaurant jobs(part time while working for pnuts in those construction jobs in Reich to work states.
I m quite sick of these people who make a living across our backs.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

3. ***UPDATE**** Looks like the good folks at Firedoglake may have dropped the ball on this one...

OOPS, Sorry folks! Looks like I haz been had, along with the AFL-CIO blog & Firedoglake.:blush:

It appears that Steele actually has nothing to do with this...just some REICH-Wing Yahoo trying to cash in on some (FAILED) "Tea-Bagging" type movement.

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