Watch This: GOP Hits Indiana Dem Candidate Hard

Brendan Mullen is running for congress here in Indiana’s 2nd District.

He’s been criticized by Republicans and his former Democratic (now Green Party) primary opponent for not being a current resident of Indiana.  He’s alleged to have moved back here just to run for office, though he does have ties here.

Mullen also got caught claiming more than one homestead exemption on his wife’s condo, and his Washington DC property.

His critics have also raised issue with the fact that 75% of his donors come from out of the district he’s running in … 58% out of the state.  I don’t really have an issue with out of state money in elections.  It’s fairly common.

The big issue is that Mullen registered to vote with a relative’s address, not his.  Presumably because he didn’t, or doesn’t, have one.

The NRCC has released their first ad in 2012, and it takes Mullen to task for being an outsider.

(Full Disclosure: Should Mullen win the Democratic nomination, he will likely face Republican Jackie Walorski.  Jackie is a regular contributor on Michiana’s Morning News.  Equal time rules are, and will be, observed as the election approaches.)

Union Thugs Want Indiana Republicans Tarred And Feathered (Video)

You’ve heard me say many times that Indiana Democrats need to act like adults, and show up for work.  Well, they haven’t been.  As a result, important legislation has been held up.  Like the human trafficking legislation the Governor wants done before the Super Bowl.

The reason they are rarely showing up for work is the push to make Indiana a right to work state.  All that means is that an employee who doesn’t belong to a union can’t be forced to pay union dues in order to keep their job.  If this law passes, the unions will get less money to give to Democrat politicians.  Hence their outrage.  It has nothing to do with protecting the workers of Indiana.  Unions are not required to negotiate on behalf of non-union employees at the workplace.  So there goes the union’s “free-loader” argument.

Since Democrats decided to not show up for work, they missed their deadline to submit amendments to the right to work legislation in question.  In accordance with House rules, the Republicans refused to allow the Democrats to submit those amendments late.

That’s when this happened:

I love the line …

American lives have been lost defending our democracy!

Yeah, because I joined the military to have a union steal money from my family against my will. What a noble ‘American’ value buddy.

Of course, honorable mention goes to …

Does ‘aye’ mean ‘yes’?

And …

You’ll be tarred and feathered for this!

Isn’t civility, maturity, and reason more meaningful when you see someone completely devoid of it?

I recently did a podcast breaking down right to work vs union states for your reference.

The Blaze has another video of the incident with the camera sitting with the union thugs.

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The Burning Truth Podcast: Right To Work vs Union States – Just The Facts

 

Indiana’s battle to become a right to work state has been dominating local headlines. We’ve discussed the issue several times on Michiana’s Morning News, but several myths continue to persist.

In this edition of ‘The Burning Truth’ I break down the facts of right to work states vs union states in hopes that some clarity can come to the issue. Hoosiers deserve honest and informed discourse on this issue. It is, after all, their livelihood on the line.

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• Indiana right-to-work bill advances to full House of Representatives (politico.com)

The Top Political Donators Since 1989

This came up today because of an email I got after discussing Harry Reid’s new jobs plan that only benefits union labor.

A union member was angry and falsely accused me of saying all unions are bad. Generalities will come up whenever you are discussing a broad based population, so I didn’t take too much offense to it.

It did remind me that I’ve not discussed the issue of where most political money comes from in a long time.   Considering the ‘occupy’ protests, it’s as good a time as any to rehash the issue.

Below you’ll see a chart of the top 20 political donators since 1989.  The list is constantly updated, and maintained at OpenSecrets.Org.

Notice it’s unions, not big business that dominates the list. Visit Open Secrets for the full list of 140 donators.

The irony of protesting big business over political influence while not protesting unions (another big business) is staggering.

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Poll: Voters Hate Republicans, But Prefer Them To Democrats, & Americans Lie

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In the poll, it says most Americans favor removing every member from Congress and starting over. This is, of course, a myth. If that were the case, then Americans wouldn’t have reelected 85.5% of Congress in the 2010 mid-term elections.  We sure do like to talk a big game though, don’t we?

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