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Mitt Romney Encouraged Business Owners To Advise Employees How To Vote
Video - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/mitt-romney-employees-voting_n_1975636.html
Can your boss tell you how to vote?
Re: Mitt Romney Encouraged Business Owners To Advise Employees How To Vote
They can send mass emails saying they are going to lay everyone off and go sit on a beach in the Caribbean. So yea. They can scare you into voting their way.
I believe the Koch brothers also did this very same thing. It's the new and legal form of voter intimidation. Keyboards are the new water cannons and German Shepards.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-workers-youll-likely-fired-131640914.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/koch-industries-sends-pro-romney-packet-employees-195709471--election.html
I will look for better sources after my conference call.
I'd heard of bosses doing this and it grossed me out. I didn't realize Mitt Romney was endorsing the practice.
I work at a university and there are strict rules about when, where, and how you can encourage voting a certain way. They want to make sure that there is no intimidation from someone of a higher rank to someone of a lower/vulnerable rank. That's how it should be IMO.
But this goes beyond bosses and CEOs telling their employees how they should vote. This is Romney encouraging business owners to do this. He doesn't go so far as to say tell your employees to vote for me, but he does say how Obama's policies have hurt business owners and goes on to say,
"It's an anti-business, anti-job agenda," Romney said.
At the end of the call, Romney urged business owners to relay their thoughts on the election to their employees.
"I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections," Romney said. "And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope, I hope you pass those along to your employees."
How is this different than all the union officials saying "vote for Democrats" every darn meeting?
I don't think there's anything wrong with telling anybody how to vote, especially if you will be affected. We as teachers are told how to vote all the time, presumably because the candidates would be better on education issues.
You can listen or not. It's a secret ballot.
I swear that I read some of these posts and think that the posters are being ironic... but they're not.
I thought the same thing when you flipped out over someone "challenging" you.
I just think it's beyond stupid that explaining how someone 'should' vote is like cannons and German shepherds. That's just straight up dumb, something that seems like a person writing in jest.
The Tagg thread has another such example.
There is a difference between "vote for Democrats" as a whole and "vote for me or you'll lose your jobs because the other guy doesn't care about you."
I've heard of more teachers being encouraged to vote for initiatives and levies than specific candidates. It might different where you live, though.
It's not a secret ballot when companies are passing out hard copy donation forms for one candidate and directing their employees to send the forms back to the CEO of the company for processing. If you don't send the form back, you're treated differently than if you did.
It's emotional blackmail for employers to strongly encourage people to vote for a certain politician because they might lose their jobs if they don't.
This isn't like the union officials telling people who to vote for, this is like Obama calling the union officials and encouraging them to do so. If there were an audio tape of Obama doing that Fox News would have heyday with it!
AB - aren't you the poster who said "how DARE you talk to me?" in response to a poster who challenged your position a few months ago?
Or did I hallucinate that?
I was being deliberatly hyperbolic for the imagery. I fully admit that.
However, the two examples of Seigel and Koch are in fact real. And distrubing.
Do the unions say "vote for our guy or I will lay off all the workers and retire to a warm tropical locale?"