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Showing posts with label Sen. Sherrod Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sen. Sherrod Brown. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Peter Schweizer on Sen. Sherrod Brown



Here’s more from Peter Schweizer’s chapter in Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite (HarperCollins) on Sen. Sherrod Brown (footnote numbers silently deleted) :

Sherrod Brown has always relied on a certain roguish charm when in the public spotlight. Described by the media as a “handsome, gravelly-voiced defender of the working class; perpetually mentioned in presidential conversations,” he has spent almost his entire adult life either serving in political office or running for it. The unique appeal to his supporters, in addition to that charm, is the fact that he viewed “himself as a progressive before it was cool.”. . .
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Brown displays his working-class sentiments in his Senate office reception area, where he has a miner’s safety lamp sitting on the table, as well as a beer stein from the United Mine Workers. . . .

His wife, Connie Schultz, once sent an email to a colleague at the Cleveland Plain Dealer who had drawn a political cartoon critical of him. She wrote: “For 30 years, Sherrod has fought for those who would have no voice and no future without him . . . (and he) remains a hero to so many. . . .

But Brown himself, as we will see, grew up privileged. While he has campaigned with a hole in one shoe (and drawn the media’s attention to it with an early, infamous reelection advertisement), his roots are far from working class.

. . .Sherrod Brown’s friend John Eichinger jokingly explained at a Democratic Party roast back in 1982 that Brown’s approach is to “get money from the rich and votes from the poor by promising to protect them from each other.”

It is a formula that has worked in American politics for more than one hundred years.

However, a closer examination reveals a far more complex picture than that of a conventional progressive politician. More than simply using that political strategy to win office, Brown seems to have used his government office to benefit his family, in particular, his brother’s legal practice, which has engaged in what some might consider strange and suspect lawsuits. Additionally, Brown’s advocacy for “workers” appears to be far more about protecting union leaders who donate to his campaigns than rank-and-file union workers. Indeed, when the interests of union leaders and the union members clash, Brown consistently sides with the bosses who have underwritten his many political campaigns.

The chapter contains over 100 footnotes to print and online sources.  I chose the above extracts to provide a partial overview of chapter 6, and there is much more on Sen. Brown’s relationships with and activities involving labor pension funds and his association with his brother’s law firm.
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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Sen. Orrin Hatch pushes back on Sen. Sherrod Brown


From Freedom’s Lighthouse (about 2 minutes, from last Thursday):

YouTube: "Hatch Rejects Class-Warfare Talking Points on Tax Bill"


Here is GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch doing what more Republicans should do when Democrats spout their Class-Warfare nonsense they have been using for 50 years. Hatch absolutely schools Leftist Democrat Sherrod Brown last night after Brown used the Democrats’ usual talking points to attack the GOP Tax Cut Plan for all Americans. Hatch called it “crap,” and told Brown he should “stop it.” This was one of Orrin Hatch’s finest moments!

Keep it up!

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

A local union is cutting pension benefits

image credit: aarp

Yesterday, Jazz Shaw at the blog Hot Air reported (via the WaPo) on a development in Ohio:

In Cleveland, the Iron Workers Local 17 union has approved cuts to their pension plan to avoid having it become insolvent. The cuts will affect different workers by varying amounts depending on their individual circumstances, but everyone will be feeling the pinch.
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The first thing to remember is that we’re talking about a private sector labor union, not one for government workers. The effects on retirees are going to be serious to be sure, but what are the other options? The union made promises to the workers which it wasn’t able to keep. This is a system which is much like any sort of general entitlement program in that it always requires growth, or at least stability. You have to have more people paying into the system than drawing out of it and if the numbers contract, the math immediately ceases working. (It’s the old question of how many people can ride in the cart as opposed to the number who are pulling it.)

[Shaw] pointed out the private sector aspect of this because the premise of the government guaranteeing these pension funds was always dubious at best. How is it that the taxpayers are on the hook for these shortfalls when the system becomes insolvent? I realize that’s not a solution, but the problem wasn’t created by the government in the first place and the taxpayers had no seat at the table when the deals were originally negotiated. But that’s not stopping Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, who is still pushing for a federal bailout of the plan.

The problem gets even more complex when we look at state pension plans which are hung around the necks of taxpayers.

Read the rest of the report here
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Monday, August 24, 2015

End the Iran Nuclear Deal * Thurs., Aug. 27 LOCATION CORRECTION



photo credit: teapartypatriots

UPDATE 8/26: Please note location correction below.

Please join fellow patriots in rallying & visiting Congressional offices across the states in protest of the Iran Nuclear Deal this Thursday August 27th.

We are calling for everyone & anyone to join us at Senator Sherrod Brown's office to tell him to stop President Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal.
Senator Sherrod Brown has shown he does not understand the deal and is currently voting in support of Iran getting nuclear weapons within 10 years.

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015
Time: 12:00pm Noon

Location: Senator Sherrod Brown's Office
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015
Time: 12:00pm Noon
Address: 801 West Superior Ave Cleveland, OH

Map: Click Here 

Brings signs to wave outside and letters to deliver to his office.  
Here is the link to a tool kit to help.

Lorain County patriots are visiting Sen. Brown's Lorain office on Thursday at 200 West Erie Ave., Suite 312, Lorain, OH
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