The joke of the day? Herrera's laughable voter pamphlet statement.

By all means, go to Clark County Elections and download a copy of the voter's pamphlet.

In that pamphlet, you'll find yet another of the many fictional portrayals of Ridgefield Barbie, we she babbles about a "new generation of leadership" like she ever showed any in Olympia while selling us out to the SEIU and the democrats.

Her primary commitment, of course, will be whatever Cathy McMorris Rogers tells her it is, since without McMorris, we'd have never heard of our local version of Obama.

The fact is that Babs accomplished absolutely nothing in Olympia... and except for selling us out, the empty suit will accomplish absolutely nothing in DC.

A campaign of lies is summed up in this fiction:

As a State Representative for Clark and Cowlitz Counties I voted to cut spending, lower taxes and balance government budgets.

Just one of her efforts to sell us out? A so-called "vote to cut spending" by voting WITH the democrats and AGAINST her own Caucus to help the leftist dems strip out the last $229 million from the state emergency fund.

Yeah. That REALLY "cut spending."

This colossal waste of political skin went so far as to tell the Columbian:

“Not once have you heard me criticize Brian Baird’s performance in Southwest Washington.”

You'd think if she was so proud of such an idiotic pronouncement, she'd brag about THAT in this statement as well.

She stupidly forgot that Washington STATE'S spending, that SHE HELPED, is hurting us as well. But that didn't stop her from engaging in it... along with the dems that she can't seem to find a way to criticize.

When she calls herself an "independent voice," such a lie is obvious to a blind man. She will do, absolutely and unhesitatingly, whatever she's told to do by her puppet master, McMorris.

If, God forbid, she manages to get elected, she ought to have "(NP -McMorris Rogers)" after her name.

A massive waste of words from a massive waste of time.

Hererra: "She's a big, fat, liar."

Teenagers have an interesting way of looking at things.

I've got a couple. One just finished high school, the other is a junior. The junior has had some difficult times, but is making a solid comeback, on the honor roll again after an 18 month or so absence.

As you might expect in a household where the majority of the income stems from politics, these two have a great deal of political awareness... more than most kids their age.

So, I was not terribly surprised when my daughter, in the midst of reviewing the bidding from last night's Herrera debacle (Otherwise known as the 3rd CD candidate forum) piped up and exclaimed, "That Herrera... she's a big, fat, liar!" (!6 year-olds do seem to have the ability to cut to the chase.)

I hadn't read the review from the TNT as yet, so I asked how it was that Herrera was a liar.

She replied, "Well, there's a part of this story... she says that she (Herrera) has a track record as a state lawmaker of reining in government spending... and that's a lie!"

"How 's that?" I asked.

"Well," she said, "Herrera helped the democrats strip out our last $200 million from the state emergency fund to help them spend our money. How is that 'reining in government spending?'"

That's my girl!

"It isn't," I explained. "Herrera has been worthless as a legislator, getting a grand total of one agreed bill into law. She's worked for the SEIU, cosponsoring and voting for a bill that would have required day care workers to unionize while forcing their business owners to pay their dues for them, and then lying about the nonexistent business support for the bill... all the while lying about it.... (Don't forget, unions gave her $5000 for her last run in 08) and, she's helped the democrats waste hundreds of millions of dollars. So, Herrera seems to be remarkably like Jon Russell: someone who will lie about anything, at any time, to get elected."

When it comes right down to it, my kid nailed it. Herrera lied last night... to the audience and to all of us.

As Al Gore has found out, the truth can be an inconvenient thing.

Just ask Ridgefield Barbie.

I hate to take exception to Linda Smith... but here, I draw the line.

So, imagine my surprise when I found this in my in-box:

From Congresswoman Linda Smith: An important message

Dear Friend,

In America, every generation has left behind a better place for its children.

But now our national debt threatens the prosperity we've worked so long and so hard to achieve. Southwest Washington citizens are struggling to find jobs. Economic uncertainty is taking its toll on families. Yet, the government continues to make promises it simply won’t be able to keep and rather than spending less money, politicians in Washington, D.C. talk about adding even more job-killing taxes to deal with this debt.

We need a new generation of leaders. We need Jaime Herrera.

Not since we won our historic write-in campaign for Congress in 1994 have we had such an important opportunity in Southwest Washington. With 3rd District Democrat Congressman Brian Baird retiring, Republicans have a chance to reclaim this Congressional district and we’ll have one more vote to repeal and replace the $1 trillion healthcare disaster.

That’s why I hope you’ll join me today in supporting Jaime’s campaign for Congress with a contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000 or more.

I wouldn’t be supporting Jaime unless I truly believed in her. She’s intelligent, conservative and hard working – and most importantly – she’s right on the issues. As your Congresswoman, Jaime will fight against big government power grabs like its recent healthcare takeover, and government bailouts for Wall Street.

Your financial support is critical to building a strong grassroots operation across the 3rd District that will carry her to victory this November.

Thank you for your support of Jaime Herrera. Let’s work together and win!

Sincerely,

Linda Smith
Former Congresswoman, 3rd District

Unlike Herrera, or Eric Earling, (Is he looking for a job, or what?) or Nan Malin, I worked my ass off for Linda Smith in 1994. Herrera was no where to be seen. But my understanding is there is something of a family relationship, so until now, I've stayed essentially quiet about how disappointed I am that Linda Smith would work to stiff us with this empty suited Guardian of the SEIU.

The LAST thing we need is "Jaime Herrera," or anything LIKE Jaime Herrera.

I was always struck by and respected Smith as an outsider to the establishment. Unfortunately for us, The Linda Smith of old seems long gone, replaced by this version, who endorses without consideration of the alternatives.

The last thing we need is someone who'll sell out her caucus to be "a friend to organized labor."

As Smith fades into the political twilight, I focus on her fine works for girls and women overseas. And then, I pause and wonder: whatever happened to the tough, independent outsider we all used to know and love... the one I worked so hard for back in '94?

Sigh.

There really is no lie Ridgefield Barbie won't tell.

So, we have Jaime Herrera, who has lied about everything from being a "senior legislative aide" for her keeper McMorris, to leaving her job on the floor so her seat mate could take her votes while she was out fund raising, to ditching those of us in her district for a special interest Washington DC fundraiser to co-sponsoring and voting for SEIU legislation to her vote to strip out the last $229 million from the state emergency fund.

Well, her only response to these truths is to attack the character of those pointing these things out.

Tough, the empty suit from Ridgefield needs to get used to it.

Yesterday, she made a complete fool of herself in Lacey. In response to the truth that she voted with the democrats and ditched her own caucus in voting to empty the state emergency fund to help her friends blow our money, she could only sputter:

"To mischaracterize that as spending should show you the character and integrity of the two people standing before you,"

That much is exactly right, Babs. You clearly have no integrity or character, since, in fact, you DID vote for that bill and it WAS to empty out the state emergency fund, much to our lasting shame.

Did Ed Orcutt vote for that crap pile?

No.

Did Joe Zarelli vote for it?

No.

Did 28 other members of your caucus vote for it?

No.

Then, according to the article, Herrera babbled thusly:

Herrera also said she wanted to tap the state's savings to avoid seeing Democrats raise taxes by more than they did raise them.

Again, did Ed Orcutt vote for that crap pile?

No.

Did Joe Zarelli vote for it?

No.

What did they know that you, in your ignorance, did not know?

She then went on to lie about her SEIU Co-sponsorship of HB 1329, the bill requiring child care workers to unionize if one child was receiving state subsidies.

We're told:

Herrera defended the child-care vote. She said small business owners in her district had asked her to support the bill, which was meant to give child-care centers more clout in getting fair payment from the state for the care of vulnerable kids. The alternative was to push out kids from low-income families. She said the bill does not require workers at the centers to pay dues, which instead are borne by the center owners.

Did Ed Orcutt vote for that crap pile?

No.

Did Joe Zarelli vote for it?

No.

Did 28 other members of your caucus vote for it?

No.

What did they know that you, in your ignorance, did not know?

OK. Here's a lie:

She said small business owners in her district had asked her to support the bill,

Yet, NONE of those "small business owners" testified in favor of the bill! And Herrera has yet to name any or produce them to verify her statement.

Why does she have to lie about it?

Unions gave Herrera $5000 for her election back in 2008. Herrera just paid them back for giving her campaign money... happens all the time in politics.

It's despicable, of course, but the proof is in the pudding. And it's so.... Herrera.

I would like to have her explain that issue though: It seems the only people testifying in favor of Herrera's sell out were unions.

Why is that? And why is she lying about it?

And then this stupidity:

which was meant to give child-care centers more clout in getting fair payment from the state for the care of vulnerable kids. The alternative was to push out kids from low-income families.

So, she admits that she pushed for a bill that would jam taxpayers even more? And I have this question: since the senate killed this bill in reality, exactly how many kids have been "pushed out" as a result?

And then THIS beaut:

She said the bill does not require workers at the centers to pay dues, which instead are borne by the center owners.

Is it any wonder that day care centers testified AGAINST this bill? Herrera would screw THEM to make THEM pay THEIR EMPLOYEES UNION DUES!

What a moron. No wonder SEIU bought her with their campaign donations.

Disgust at you selling out isn't a matter of coercion. It's a matter that for a few campaign donations, you abandoned Republican principles, became a union lackey, and then lied about it, while attacking those who would question your non-existent judgment.

She went on to babble:

She also said she would vote for her district, not the party or partisan interests, "every day and twice on Sunday," and that she could not be "coerced" by her party.

Well, true enough. Instead, she was coerced by her union owners, voting against BOTH Zarelli, who helped kill this bill AND Orcutt, who voted "no" on this labor crap pile.

Why anyone would want to support an empty-suited liar like Herrera, who hasn't even lived here for 11 out of the last 13 years is simply beyond me.

How anyone thinks she's anything approaching "conservative" given that she co-sponsored SEIU legislation and then lied about it is also a mystery.

But then, those 3 democrat counties endorsing her might have an answer.

Seems Jaime's feeling the heat about her SEIU Guardianship and Her efforts to help the democrats spend our money.

Back in her 2008 run, Jaime Herrera received over $5000 from unions supporting her. In both 2009 and 2010, they got their reward when she co-sponsored SEIU legislation, voted for it, and then voted to help the democrats strip out the last $229 million from the state emergency fund.

That she did these things are indisputable facts. That she co-sponsored and voted for this SEIU bill is not even a question. That she voted for it while most of the rest of her caucus voted against it, again, not even a question. The record speaks for itself.

That she voted to help the democrats strip out tens of millions of dollars of our money for their spending programs; again, not even a question. The record is clear; she did these things.

REMIND her she did these things, and ol' Jaime gets just a might bit testy.

She has no response for being a sell out, you understand. She has no excuse; no justification.

So, when she was reminded of that today, what was Ridgefield Barbie's response?

Why, to attack David Castillo's integrity... and to attack him personally.

That's often the last refuge of a scoundrel. Herrera, being a coward, won't man up and admit she screwed up... like when she was busted for leaving the floor for hours at a time to fund raise, or when she ditched us in this district to go to the DC special interest trough during session.

But when you remind her of her own history, she just gets a might upset, showing that a lack of maturity is yet another reason to keep her out of any elective office.

Looking forward to having the video soon.

What do Patty Murray and Jaime Herrera have in common? (II)

Why, it's Tony Williams!

Williams is a former Slade Gorton chief of staff while Slade was in the Senate.

And what do we come to find out?

That Tony held a fund raiser for Patty Murray. That HAD to sting Dino just the tiniest bit.

Well, even though Tony was obstensively a (cough, cough) Republican, he's not only funded a great many democrats, he's even held fund raisers for them.

And that brings us to Herrera. From her campaign donor list:

WILLIAMS, TONY J	CLYDE HILL WA 98004	03/31/2010	500.00	WASHINGTON2 ADVOCATES/CHAIRMAN	10930613033
WILLIAMS, TONY J	CLYDE HILL WA 98004	03/01/2010	250.00	WASHINGTON2 ADVOCATES/CHAIRMAN	10930613032

Odd, isn't it? That Patty Murray and Jaime Herrera seem to have so much in common?

Besides their SEIU sell outs, I mean?

Besides their rabid support of SEIU, what do Patty Murray, Harry Reid and Jaime Herrera have in common?

The same people are donating to their campaigns!

I THOUGHT there might be something a little fishy when some outfit like "The Frozen Food PAC" would donate a dime to a nobody like Herrera.

But then, I found THIS intriguing connection:

HERRERA, JAIME LYNN VIA JAIME HERRERA FOR CONGRESS

03/29/2010

2000.00

10930502369

And this one:

MURRAY, PATTY VIA PEOPLE FOR PATTY MURRAY

11/30/2009

1200.00

10930492581

And THIS one:

REID, HARRY VIA FRIENDS FOR HARRY REID

07/20/2009

2500.00

10930492579

Why am I not surprised?

Co-sponsors and votes for leftist SEIU legislation; then gets money from people who also support Patty Murray and Harry Reid?

This one ought to make Shannon Barnett's head EXPLODE!

Not only has Herrera taken money from special interests (Like the SEIU) but she has taken money from pro-leftist PACs AND Washington, DC, DURING SESSION! (All without a peep from Barnett, of course. Can let a little thing like hypocrisy stand in the way of attacking others, eh?)

Why, whoda thunk it?

I would. That's why I looked.

How the SEIU sees their "white union members." And Herrera supported THESE people?

SEIU Union Chief Gerry Hudson: My White Union Members "so f***ing rabidly racist"...

VIDEO (**** WARNING: HARSH LANGUAGE ****):



Tends to speak for itself, don't it?

Major H/T to Orbusmax.

Cross posted at Jaime Herrera Watch.

Herrera's support of SEIU begins to bite: Kool Aid drinking supporters are running scared.

Jamie Herrera is a tool for the SEIU. In her "defense," there's a blog post that has a copy of some sort of nonsensical wimpy attempt to excuse or justify this quite indicative sell out that Ridgefield Barbie, the fake Republican running in the 3rd Congressional District, actually did something that made sense.

It didn't.

Herrera cosponsored and voted for a bill that will unionize child care workers. For reasons I've already set forth, that is one of the worst imaginable ideas concerning the issue of day care, period. Further, she also VOTED AGAINST HER CAUCUS (The vote was 62 to 35 and most of those 35 were, well Republican... much like almost all of the 62 were, well, democrats)

But there is no excuse for cosponsoring a SEIU bill if you are to refer to yourself as a "conservative."

That any conservative would even consider voting for this cardboard cutout in the face of her support of SEIU... the same group supported by such luminaries as Barack Obama; Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Patty Murray, Barney Frank and the like supports... is admittedly a complete and total mystery to me.

Those people have something in common with our fake Republican. And what that "thing" is stands as a reason for her to never gain election to even the position of dog catcher.

Calling someone who would co-sponsor the SEIU bill a "conservative" is moronic. Deliberately failing to mention that little factoid as a part of your efforts to defend the indefensible?

That's something else. That's sordid. That's cowardly. That's fraud. And that's what Herrera supporters who either agree with her actions or support them while THEY masquerade as "conservatives" could fairly be labeled.

As a conservative, just ask yourself this:

Would YOU co-sponsor and vote for a SEIU bill?

If you haven't eaten yet, feel free to head on over to this bogus effort to defend this clueless empty suit's support of SEIU.

Don't do it if you have eaten, though. Because you won't be able to keep it down.

As far as that goes, the one thing that amazes me the most is how many leftists votes Herrera takes that the Herrera Herd just goes along with.

The lie then, is in referring to this fake Republican as a "conservative."

What both Huff and this Bowman guy deliberately left out is that not only did Herrera VOTE for this what you admit to be "not a GREAT bill;" the simple idiot co-sponsored it.

Co-sponsored, Huff. She co-sponsored an SEIU bill, and then voted for it.

Much like she voted for stripping out the $229,000,000 from the state's emergency fund to help the democrats with their massive spending increases this session, "conservatives" would neither COSPONSOR A SEIU BILL, VOTE FOR THE SEIU BILL, NOR VOTE AGAINST HER CAUCUS TO EMPTY OUT THE STATE RAINY DAY FUND.

I have to wonder: what leftist cause, bill or series of causes or bills would it take for the Herrera Herd to get that she's as conservative as my cocker spaniel?

And by the way, Huff? Your constant whine about checking "her voting record" is even more proof that there is nothing this woman can do to get you to wake up:

What washingtonvotes.org HAS is a record of how her voting buttons were pushed. It doesn't have a record of WHO PUSHED THEM the dozens of votes she MISSED VOTES so she could go out and fund raise.

I get that the SEIU thing is causing her problems. No true conservative would consider voting for a so-called Republican who not only voted for SEIU legislation, but COSPONSORED THE BILL.

And no amount of spin from you, or Bowman, or anyone else can make up for the fact that she sold us out to the SEIU here, just like she ditched us to go to a DC special interest fund raiser during session; and just like she voted to help the democrats rape us financially just a few short days ago.

NO other GOP candidate in this district would CONSIDER carrying the water for the SEIU. Her vote there makes her unfit to hold the office she has now, let alone go to congress to do anything but answer phones at a receptionist desk.

I'm just astounded that you people have, apparently, drank enough Kool Aid to fill an Olympic Swimming pool.

Unbelievable. If you people believe her to be a conservative, then I'm ashamed to call myself one.

Cross posted at Clark County Politics.

Yet another blog weighs in: Herrera is "Washington State's SEIU Bought Republican"

It's not just Lew Waters and I sounding the clarion call that Ridgefield Barbie votes more like a stealth leftist than an alleged Republican.

This week, Herrera/McMorris-Rogers/Vanderstoep's campaign has been leaking more buzz then a toddler who's already endured 90 minutes of Avatar.

As the word finally gets out, more and more are viewing our local cardboard cut out of a state representative/congressmember wannabe with something other than the anointment she so desperately believes is hers.

Herrera has no more business as a state representative, or a member of congress, then she does practicing brain surgery. Getting coffee for McMorris for a couple of years does no qualify her or anyone else to be in congress. Utilizing a corrupted appointment process to get the rep's job in the first place; running and co-sponsoring SEIU (Read: ACORN) legislation; having others vote in your absence so you SEEM to be there when, instead, you're making fund raising calls rather than representing US; admitting in her appointment process that she would be a "friend to organized labor," and then lying to everyone by proclaiming there wasn't "a job in the world" she'd "rather have," all of these things pile up on a girl.

Other conservatives are seeing the light: this has arguably been the worst week, hopefully one of many, that the empty suit from Ridgefield has endured since her keepers cut her loose on a previously unsuspecting public.

But now, the word is getting out. Now, all of a sudden, the strings wrapped around her by McMorris-Rogers and Vanderstoep are beginning to unravel. The latest example?

Rightcha here, hot off the Publius' Forum:

"Washington State’s SEIU Bought Republican"

February 26, 2010 Filed Under Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Congress, Elections, Free Trade, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Jobs, Liberals, Public Employees Unions, Republicans, SEIU, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston, Washington

-By Warner Todd Huston

On February 24, Moe Lane posted a short piece alerting one and all to the fact that one of the Republican candidates for Washington State’s 3rd Congressional District is a favorite of the hard-core lefties in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — one of Obama’s favorite Big Labors cohorts. Mr. Lane, though, was sure that Jaime Herrera “regrets that endorsement now.” Unfortunately, I am not so sanguine because Herrera has been far more compliant with Big Labor’s goals than is evident from what Lane might have thought was a mere wayward endorsement.

There is a reason, it appears, that the SEIU endorsed Herrera. As a Republican she seems to be far more one of them than one of us at least as far as Big Labor’s needs go!

Moe Lane cited the Clark County Politics blog on the SEIU’s endorsement, but if you don’t want to believe the CCPblog — admittedly a right leaning site — here is a Progressive Voters Guide for Washington and here is the Voters Guide for Equal Rights Washington, both left-wing groups that show SEIU support for Herrera. On top of that here is SEIU Local 1199 NW’s endorsement page which also announces its endorsement of Herrera.

Mush, Much, more:

Frankly this is a tremendous bit of research that proves the leftist infestation in Ridgefield Barbie is much stronger than I suspected. And why vote for a fake democrat when the real thing is available?

Who knows? Maybe democrat State Representative Jim Moeller (D-49) will hold a fundraiser... for Herrera, since they've got so much in common.

The wheels are loosening on her little wagon. Hopefully, if we keep the pressure on and continue to spread the word, those wheels will come off altogether.

Cross posted at Clark County Politics.

All this posturing on I-960. You've got to wonder wonder why Herrera screwed us on the SEIU bill.

The senior intern-turned appointed state representative is, no doubt, shooting off her mouth on the floor at a mile a minute so she can come out and tell us how hard "She" fought to keep it in place.

Of course, she was strangely absent when it came to getting it in front of the people in the first place, but hey, given everything that's happened with Ridgefield Barbie, no one could ever claim she's not a rank opportunist.

The problem is that no matter what she blabs now, it won't wash away the stain of selling us all out by co-sponsoring and voting for that neo-communist bill pushing child care costs far out of the reach of those who need it the most.

So, she screws the most needy in our society by increasing both the cost of day care and the size of the leftist unions that brought us to this sorry state of affairs in the first place.

And now, she's cranking out the rhetoric and the verbiage, no doubt to get it all up on YouTube as fast as possible to polish her non-existent conservative cred.

It doesn't matter what you said tonight, Herrera.

Because, when it mattered, you said the wrong thing at the wrong time and helped the enemies of our economy strike another blow against those who needed the help the most.

And nothing you said tonight will change any of that.

Cross posted At Clark County Politics.

Herrera continues to lie on both the experience and money issues

Jaime Herrera. She's SUCH a kidder.

She actually sent ME a fund raising letter. Can you BELIEVE it?

I ripped it open, positively EAGER to see what pearls of wisdom were written for her so she wouldn't sound like a cardboard cut out. (Anyone actually believing SHE wrote this bilge, or had anything to say about it, for that matter, please burn your voter registration card.)

And what to my wondering eyes appear?

The usual drama queen BS; that the future of western civilization rests entirely with her election to this seat.

It doesn't of course, but like her work experience fairy tales, she has to make you believe it, so you'll unscrew at the right elbow and send her a check.

The usual, to-be-expected, gross exaggeration about her job with the puppet master behind her parachuting in her to snatch the pre-arranged 18th District seat is in there. You know, continuing to call herself a "Senior Legislative Aide" because that sounds SO much more impressive than a mere "legislative assistant." You remember, like she called herself before her campaign keepers jacked her title up?

Another hoot was she tells us that she's running because "we urgently need new leadership in Washington." Hell, she's just been back in town for 20 minutes or so, and has yet to show any leadership HERE! Well, except for that whiney little fit in caucus about telling them to "stay out" of the race in the 18th... for all the good THAT did her.

And what makes our resident empty suit think that she'll be anything more in DC than she is here? To wit, a back-bencher, SEIU-supporting turn coat?

And then this hoot, in BOLDFACE, no less:

"My pledge to you is that I will place more value on saving your money then spending it."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Herrera, you made me spit up all over my keyboard on that one.

This, from the woman who managed to fry her way through almost $500 for 3 days worth of meals on a boondoggle trip from DC back to Spokane?

And YOU are placing value on MY money? Since when?

And your support of this SEIU bill that, if enacted, will shut out our most needy from their desperately needed child care so THEY CAN WORK.

And Jaime, that McMorris's shills back in DC managed to get your name buried in a paragraph, buried in an article... doesn't by any means indicate that you're ready for anything, except, perhaps, a run at junior class vice president.

And do yourself a favor. Go through you fund raiser data base, and get my name off your list.

Otherwise, every time you send out this tripe, we'll get to play this again.

Cross posted at Clark County Politics.

The Family Policy Institute weighs in on Jaime Herrera's betrayal.

As I pointed out here, Jaime Herrera co-sponsored and then twice voted for a nefarious, SEIU-supported piece of work that will, effectively, make it practically impossible for low-income parents to get child care for their children while they work; and at the same time, enables further union and democrat-supporting expansion of anti-Republican forces through HB 1329.

Well, the Family Policy Council joins me in my consternation.

WA Legislature Threatens Women’s Choice

Monday, February 8, 2010

WA Legislature Threatens Women’s Choice

Monday Minute

Thoughts from the Executive Director

In 2007, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) approached child care centers (not home day care centers) in Washington about joining the union. After learning that the union would not disclose how much membership was going to cost or specify the benefits that the centers would receive, they declined.

For those of you who run businesses, you understand that if someone doesn’t want the services you offer you need to figure out a way to improve what you’re offering. For those of you who love freedom, you might think that you as an individual should have the right to refuse someone else’s service. However, unions are not businesses nor do they apparently respect the rights of women to choose whether or not union representation is best for them. Therefore, they did what you and I can never do.

They went to their friends in the legislature who take lots and lots of their money for campaigns and asked the legislature to force daycare centers to reap the blessings of union membership—whether they like it or not.

What resulted was House Bill 1329, which has already passed the House of Representatives and has moved to the Senate for consideration. Although unclear, it appears that this bill would compel all child care centers to become part of a union if one person from 30% of the centers says they want to join. Therefore, if there were 100 centers with 5,000 employees, 30 signatures (one from 30 different centers) could compel all 5,000 employees to become union members.

As if the threshold wasn’t low enough, the bill requires the state to disclose the names and addresses of day care employees to the unions. Disclosure of personal information to entities outside the government is currently illegal and Washington State has already been sued for doing precisely what this bill mandates. But why worry about things like privacy when there are political favors to give.

To sweeten the pot, the bill makes no guarantees about services that will be offered nor does it tell workers how much of their paycheck will be taken to pay for the union membership. That small detail is to be worked out in negotiations where Governor Gregoire will represent the interest of child care workers against the union. For those of you who don’t follow Washington State politics closely, that would like finding out Al Capone has been appointed to represent you in your negotiations with the mob.

The proponents of the bill are very excited about what union involvement will do for the quality of education in these centers. If enacted, we should all hope the unionization of child care will produce better results for child care than the Washington Education Association has produced for general education. But the early results are not promising.

In-home child care centers were forced into unions in 2007. Workers in those centers are reportedly underwhelmed by what they receive for their mandatory monthly contributions. In committee, no attempt was even made to show that the quality of care in those centers was improved.

The bill would not only compel individuals to join a union over their objections, it would force church child care centers to participate as well. This is problematic because the large majority of churches are philosophically opposed to union positions.

Recently, the SEIU gathered 150 million dollars from their "members" to spend on political campaigns. $85 million was used to fund Democrat candidates.

The SEIU proudly supports gay marriage, abortion on demand and other social agendas that many individuals would object to based on religious conviction.

The National Education Association, who is also supportive of this bill, has taken similar positions.

Unions should be free to exist and they should be free to speak their minds. However, they should not be free to force people who do not want their services or agree with their agenda to be members.

As the freedom loving Thomas Jefferson once said “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical.”

If you think this anti-choice measure is bad policy, we urge you to call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000. This number will enable you to leave a message for your legislators even if you don’t know who they are by providing your address. If you would like to contact your legislators individually, you can find them by clicking here.

Please be respectful, but please be heard.

Posted by FPIW at 3:12 PM

Yup. Our local empty suit wasn't kidding when she said she'd be a "Friend to organized labor."

Yet another fake Republican running for office.

Swell.

Cross posted at Clark County Politics.

Democrat Vancouver City Councilman Pat Campbell stops on by to defend Herrera's SEIU sell out.

Look, I get that Jaime Herrera pledged to "be a friend to organized labor" when she lied her way into her appointment to the 18th District House seat a couple of years ago. But co-sponsoring SEIU bills to provide collective bargaining to child care workers and then twice voting FOR such a moronic bill?

Well, how "Republican" is that?

I guess it boils down to who you want caring for your children and grandchildren? Folks who have some substance or folks in extreme poverty? Having been a day care licensing caseworker and a parole officer, I have an opinion on this. Herrera is consistent in wanting the unborn and born protected. You folks are also consistent...

-Pat Campbell

(Anonymous) 1/30/10

I appreciate former Republican Pat Campbell stopping by to share his vision and union cheer-leading, a view that dovetails no closely with Herrera's.

So, let's get this straight: both democrat Campbell and faux Republican Herrera like the idea of jacking up the cost of child care/day care so much that it will make it impossible, for any practical purpose, for low-income wage earners to be able to afford the much higher rates for day care this kind of idiocy will ultimately cause.

It is frightening that either of these two were ever elected to anything, of course, given their obvious inability to determine the long term impacts of their efforts. And, of course, Campbell's vision includes such outright stupidity as ramming an unneeded and unwanted bridge with loot rail down our throats (And act that will ALSO hurt hundreds if not thousands of daily commuters who will have to PAY for this bridge and loot rail that we do not want... and do not need.) as well as getting rid of the sales tax exemption for Oregon shoppers; and who moronically enough has requested that "God forgive" those smart enough to oppose that tribal blight on our community, the massive Cowlitz megacasino.

At the end of the day, if child care workers don't like the money.... well, they can certainly find some other line of work. Slamming those least able to afford his moronic view of the world along with that of our empty suited faux Republican who co-sponsored and voted for the SEIU-inspired bill?

Why would any Republican ever vote for Herrera, again?

Because with friends like fringe-leftist democrat Campbell, there's no percentage in voting for a fake Republican when the real deal happens to still be available.

Cross posted at Clark County Politics.

Fake Republican Jaime Herrera votes FOR collective bargaining of child care workers.

It's bad enough that Jaime Herrera lacks any experience that qualifies her to run for Congress.

It's bad enough that she was handed an appointment to the 18th District she didn't deserve after a 10 year absence.

It's bad enough she portrayed herself as being "a friend of organized labor."

And it's even bad enough that she co-sponsored this democrat garbage bill and voted for it last session.

But within the hour, she compounded all of that by DOING IT AGAIN.

And then she calls herself a REPUBLICAN?

Ask yourself: what would Brian Baird do?

And then ask yourself: If you want a Republican to win this... then why would you vote for Herrera?

SHB 1329

Childcare ctr col bargaining

House vote on Final Passage

1/27/2010

Yeas: 62 Nays: 35 Absent: 0 Excused: 1

Voting Yea: Representatives Angel, Appleton, Blake, Carlyle, Chase, Cody, Conway, Crouse, Dammeier, Darneille, Dickerson, Driscoll, Dunshee, Ericks, Finn, Goodman, Green, Haigh, Hasegawa, Herrera, Hudgins, Hunt, Hunter, Hurst, Jacks, Kagi, Kelley, Kenney, Kessler, Kirby, Liias, Linville, Maxwell, McCoy, Miloscia, Moeller, Morrell, Morris, Nelson, Ormsby, Orwall, Parker, Pedersen, Pettigrew, Priest, Probst, Quall, Roberts, Rolfes, Santos, Seaquist, Sells, Simpson, Sullivan, Takko, Upthegrove, Van De Wege, Wallace, White, Williams, Wood, and Mr. Speaker

Voting Nay: Representatives Alexander, Anderson, Armstrong, Bailey, Campbell, Chandler, Clibborn, Condotta, DeBolt, Eddy, Ericksen, Fagan, Haler, Hinkle, Hope, Johnson, Klippert, Kretz, Kristiansen, McCune, Nealey, O'Brien, Orcutt, Pearson, Roach, Rodne, Ross, Schmick, Shea, Short, Smith, Springer, Taylor, Walsh, and Warnick

Absent:

Excused: Representative Flannigan

Cross posted at Clark County Politics.