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SEIU On California’s
Conservatives: ‘If we can’t get them out, we’ll breed them out.’
Posted by LaborUnionReport
Saturday, June 11th
There is a scene in the movie Braveheart in which King Edward I
(Longshanks) laments that there are too many Scots. His solution is to
declare reinstatement of the old practice of primae noctis, which is to
allow his nobles to have the right to take the Scots’ newlywed wives to
their beds on their wedding night. Upon declaring primae noctis,
Longshanks states (in obvious reference to impregnating the Scots’
brides), “If we can’t get them out, we’ll breed them out.”
While there is wide speculation that the practice of primae noctis is,
in fact, fictional, it seems the leaders of the California’s SEIU,
feeling there are too many conservatives holding public office in
California, have adopted their own union version of primae noctis: If
we can’t get them out, we’ll breed them out.
California’s SEIU leaders are planning on getting rid of California’s
conservative lawmakers by taking over the California Republican Party
by recruiting their own GOP candidates.
One of California’s largest labor unions today advanced a plan intended
to result in the election of more moderate Republicans.
By creating a Republican political action committee, Service Employees
International Union California officials say they hope to help send
people from right-leaning areas to Sacramento who put practical
solutions in front of strict conservative thinking.
[snip]
The union says 87,000 of its 700,000 members are registered
Republicans. With redrawn legislative boundaries looming and the
creation of the top-two primary system, SEIU’s new leader Dave Kieffer
has said this is the perfect time to start helping candidates to
extricate themselves from the grip of party extremists. SEIU is
expected to launch its second ad campaign this weekend in the districts
of current GOP legislators its officials believe could support Brown’s
tax package.
“I feel the far right, the tea party, is hijacking my party, and it’s
saddening,” said John Orr, a parking officer at California State
University, Fullerton. “I hope through this PAC, this effort and the
open primary that moderates can regain their voice.”
So, in a nutshell: The SEIU, which already owns the Democratic Party in
California is not satisfied with merely owning one party, it wants
control of both parties and is willing to take over the GOP from the
inside out [see Saul Alinsky].
With the SEIU on the Left and the SEIU in the Right, taxpayers will be
stuck in the middle—and stuck with the tab—with nowhere to go…except
away.
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