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DrBombay 
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Posted on: Oct. 24 2004,2:42 pm |
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I don't care where you rank. You can consistantly vote against the Union's position. A lifetime record of only 28% voting with the Afl-Cio's position. You've voted against collective bargaining rights and looks like you like the idea of privitization. A vote here a vote there might not look like much damage, but in truth it just chisels away a little at a time of basic workers rights.
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repdan
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Posted on: Oct. 24 2004,3:41 pm |
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Consistntly? That would mean I would rank at 0. I never confuse the AFL-CIO politics with policy. They are 2 very different things, which is one reason they don't have the political clout that they once had. Think about this, why would I want to chisel at basic workers rights? To be sucsessful in our store, I need customers who earn a good wage. I can't survive on people making $7 or $8 per hour.
FYI, I don't expect to convert you Bombay, but your extream positions help me. You and Maxx are the exact opposit of the hard core right wingers that think everyone else is a communist. Most of us are somewhere in the middle.
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repdan
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Posted on: Oct. 24 2004,3:43 pm |
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Hoosier, you and I have another thing in common, we both have great wifes.
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carpe ductem.....remember we're all in this together..I'm pull'n for you.
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Montyman
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Posted on: Oct. 24 2004,7:39 pm |
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So, Bombay...workers have rights?
You mean USED to...
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Madd Max
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Posted on: Oct. 24 2004,11:03 pm |
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| Quote (repdan @ Oct. 23 2004,4:48:pm) | | So, now you are saying that somehow my record would be better if it were 50%? That really would not improve my ranking. |
No that is not what I am saying. What I am saying is if you truly cared about working families and labor people you would vote more in favor of their issues. 33% is only voting to support their issues 1/3 of the time in the last session. Yet you vote with the chamber 75% to 85% of the time. So while taking your voting record in account we would have to surmise that if the chamber asks you to vote on a issue that was good for business but bad for working families, I believe you will vote would side with the chamber 7 out of ten times. On Education you only voted 30% of the time in support why is that? On a side note I heard we just lost another 60 good paying jobs here in Albert Lea. Your party keeps telling us we are in a recovery well not here in 27a I am sad to say!
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Madd Max
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Posted on: Oct. 24 2004,11:45 pm |
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| Quote (repdan @ Oct. 24 2004,3:41:pm) | | I can't survive on people making $7 or $8 per hour. |
Neither can the people making that wage and support a family Repdan. I also heard your ad on Power 96 tonight here is a few questions. You said that you have brought 350 new jobs to town with the New Job zone. How many of these new jobs have people working them today? How long will it be before all of these jobs will be working? How many years will it be before these companies will start paying state taxes? Will companies like QPP and others Hire local or ship in the workforce? Who will pick up the tab for the lost taxes this company will not have to pay for the next 12 years? I still have not heard what the wages will be paid at any of these new jobs so what will QPP pay for a wage? What other companies are coming to town? What are the names of these new companies? How many is each one going to hire? Here is your chance fill us in.
Also Repdan if standing up for the elderly and the children is wrong and make me a liberal, so be it. If wanting my children and grandchildren to get a good quality education is wrong and make me a liberal, so be it. If watching out for working families and wanting them to make a living wage make me a Liberal, so be it. If wanting affordable healthcare for everyone makes me a liberal so be it. If wanting the future to be better for my children and grandchildren then the present is makes me a liberal, so be it. If wanting Albert Lea to grow instead of getting smaller make mea liberal so be it. If wanting to have clean lakes and streams here make me liberal, so be it. Isn’t it right that your own party kind of left you out to dry this spring on the ½ cent sales tax to clean up the lake didn’t they. I don’t believe you got any money for a new dam either did you?
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repdan
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Posted on: Oct. 25 2004,10:38 am |
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Maxx, What was the correct vote on the tax bill? Liberals don't have the market cornered on education and senior issues, or clean water......
There are people on both sides that don't like local options, in the 6 years that I have been in, I would guess there have been about 60 proposed and only one made it, and this is my fault?
You are right about the damn, there was money for the DNR dam replacement fund and we are on of the next on the list, the bill passed the House with over 1/2 of the dems voting for it yet the Senate could not put together a bill that could pass. This is my fault?
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carpe ductem.....remember we're all in this together..I'm pull'n for you.
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Madd Max
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Posted on: Oct. 25 2004,11:37 pm |
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Yes, you got blasted on the 1/2 cent sales tax. You didn't get the job done. Albert Lea Lake is the first lake travels see when coming to Minnesota from the south and the first impression people will have of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes I would think it would be that hard of a sell to get a little help to clean up the lake since all we just wanted to do is tax ourselves. Back to the tax free zones, what are the wages these companies going to pay to their employees when they get there plants running? Since these companies will not have to pay any state taxes for 12 years what will the cost be to us the property owners for these jobs. How many of these jobs have people working in then right now? Looks like you’re talking about jobs that are not here yet but we just lost 60 jobs last week. One other thing more then a few people want to know is how you voted for the Morning dove hunting season last spring. Did you vote for a season or against a season?
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DrBombay
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Posted on: Oct. 25 2004,11:54 pm |
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So Montyman, were you in some strange way agreeing with me?  Or throwing something out there that I would agree with?
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DrBombay
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Posted on: Oct. 26 2004,12:04 am |
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| Quote | | You and Maxx are the exact opposit of the hard core right wingers that think everyone else is a communist. |
You ever been called a communist Maxx? Me, oh yeah a few times. Mostly from my republican nephew and then I just call him a Nazi and we leave it at that.
But I really take that as a compliment.....exact opposite of a hard core right winger. Thanks Repdan! 
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