Governor Ritter, No Labor Support?, No Election
What a surprise! Governor Bill Ritter has announced he won't seek re-election in Colorado. He states family issues as his major reason for stepping down.I contend the lagging poll numbers, and the fact that he turned his back on the base, are the reasons he's leaving. The base being the labor organizations that spent millions of dollars, and supplied boots on the ground, to get him elected. What did he do for labor? Vetoed any solid pro-labor legislation to be put on his desk. His days have been numbered ever since. He then turns around and puts Mr. Anti-Labor Senator Michael Bennet into Ken Salazar's seat. Bennet is well known to oppose the Teachers Unions in the state of Colorado. He had a number of better possibilities such as Joan Fitzgerald, or Andrew Romanoff, but no, he went with an anti-labor guy.
These guys live in a dream world. Who's going to show up for them, when they turn into the very corporate jack-ass we voted out in the first place?
The politicians on the National level are about to discover the same situation. We voted them in to represent the people, not the corporations, and who do they support? The corporations.
As I've stated in the past, the last bastion of the people is the vote. Why do you think the corporations spend billions of dollars on the media outlets? To influence the less attentive ones of you that "you need to vote against your own best interest". Media loves to influence the "low information" or "easily influenced voter".
Are you in either of those classifications? I doubt it if you are reading this site.
Until we demand election reform, and/or take back our media outlets, we will continue to be a badly divided country. Our politicians are about the people that pay them, not the people that vote for them.
Election reform or die!
Posted by Bob at 1/6/2010 9:06 AM 
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Categories: UPS, Action
Tags: UPS politics United Parcel Service republican Democratic Fox news right wing Corporatist Driver democrat Teamsters
So right Bob. The disappointments are many as George and I were discussing today at coffee. Hey, you should come for one of our conflabs sometime.
Corporatists run the nation, whether you have "people agendas" or not. We are seeing the real truth as politicians like Ritter duck and run rather than face the working folks that got him elected. Wonder what Obama is going to do?
From the Declaration of Independence is this section in paragraph two:
"... That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness...."
Has the time neared for the change to come? Whatever happens, I wish us Godspeed!
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