Claire McCaskill

New Report Projects Card Check Law Will Create Joblessness

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 01:05

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), as this publication has noted several times, is a classic case of deceptive packaging. The proposal, now pending before Congress, would effectively eliminate the secret ballot as a means of allowing workers to decide whether to join a union. Specifically, it would force an employer to recognize as binding the result of a union "card check" campaign that generates signatures from at 50 percent of affected workers who indicate a desire to join. Labor leaders from the start have admitted they seek to boost their ranks and retool themselves as a formidable economic and political force. What they won't admit is the possibility that EFCA, once enacted, would be counterproductive to the interests of workers as a whole. A new study concludes, however, that such a possibility is very real.

ACORN Worker Pleads Guilty to Vote Fraud in Kansas City, Mo.

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 06/04/2007 - 00:00

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has done a lot of heavy lifting over the past few decades for the Democratic Party Left.   Launched in 1970 and still run by Service Employees International Union Local 100 chief organizer Wade Rathke, the massive nationwide nonprofit network of anti-poverty activists has been focusing much of its firepower lately on voter registration.  They play hardball and are proud of it, regardless of whether their tactics are legal.  Results are what matters.  And last year in Missouri, the group delivered results.  By a less than 50,000-vote margin, State Auditor Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, was elected as the state’s newest U.S. Senator over GOP incumbent Jim Talent.  In the process, ACORN unwittingly set the stage, especially in Kansas City, for indictments and guilty pleas against several of their former workers.

Union Ally ACORN Produces Vote Fraud in Missouri, Elsewhere

Submitted by Carl Horowitz on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 01:00

The new 110th Congress convened earlier this month with something it hadn’t had in a dozen years:  a Democratic-controlled House and Senate.  But amid the party’s hoopla over Nancy Pelosi’s ascent to House Speaker is the reality that its Senate majority is a thin 51-49.  That edge is partly the result of a close 2006 race in Missouri, where Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill defeated incumbent Republican Senator Jim Talent.  By more than one account her margin of victory in some measure owed to voter fraud.  And the likely culprit is an operator long familiar to the American political landscape:  the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.  Investigative reporting by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Wall Street Journal and other news sources reveals that the nationwide network of Leftist nonprofit groups aggressively played fast and loose with the voter registration process in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas.  And Missouri isn’t the only state where ACORN has worked its strange magic.

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