Via Drudge Big Journalism reports that calls received by Montgomery County Police Department regarding a protest by SEIU members at the home of Bank of America exec Greg Baer were responded to immediately. Four MCPD police vehicles arrived at Baer's home where they found Washington's Civil Disturbance Unit already present on the scene. MCPD had not been notified the Civil Disturbance Unit escorted the busloads of protestors to the private home of the Bank of America executive:
So, let’s sum this up: A caravan of SEIU buses receive a Metropolitan (D.C.) Police Department escort to a private home in Maryland where the protesters, from all appearances, violate Montgomery County law by engaging in a stationary protest. The Montgomery County police were not informed by their cross-jurisdictional colleagues of the impending, unusually large protest pending in their jurisdiction.
What’s up with that? Had the mob decided to torch the house, the D.C. police would not have been authorized to intervene. Not their jurisdiction. They’re just escorts. Meanwhile, a teenage boy is home alone, frightened by what’s happening outside his front door.
Imagine that, SEIU protesters getting a police escort to the home of a private citizen in the same week the financial regulation legislation is up for cloture vote in the Senate. What a coincidence. Meanwhile the protesters have all the protection while private citizens are treated like criminals. This is wrong on so many levels.
A group of SEIU and NPA thugs staged a protest at the private home of Bank of America lobbyist Gregory Baer and at the home of Chase executive Peter Scher this weekend. The protest is one of a planned series of attacks against K Street organized through Showdown in America. A massive protest is set to descend on K Street today. It's shaping up to be full-scale Kabuki theater:
What:
On May 17, everyday people from across the country will come to Washington DC to draw a direct line connecting unaccountable corporations, their lobbyists, and the Members of Congress who do their bidding. The big banks and other reckless corporations have hijacked our democracy and ruined our economy, and we are coming to Washington DC to take it back.
WHO:
Members and leaders of National People’s Action, SEIU, Jobs with Justice and the AFL-CIO.
WHEN:
12:00 pm - Showdown on K Street, McPherson Square
Rev. Eugene Barnes, Board President, National People’s Action
Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO
Mary Kay Henry, President, Service Employees International Union
Leader from Jobs with Justice
Everyday Americans impacted by financial crisis
12:30 pm - March to Bank of America Office Next to Treasury
1:00 pm - Americans from across the country head to Capitol Hill to Reclaim Our Democracy.
Sounds like a real grassroots group to me. I am sure they will get the same scrutiny the tea party protests endured from the media. Maybe that will happen right after Nancy Pelosi calls them "astroturf."
The video of the protest held at the home of Bank of America exec Gregory Baer has already captured the attention of the progressive blogs who are too busy promoting the protest to note the irony in their own descriptions of the "staged" protest:
But before Main Street arrives on K Street, a fleet of yellow school buses and motor coaches delivered the demonstrators, clad in red, blue, and purple t-shirts, to a park in Chevy Chase near the home of Bank of America’s Baer. After a quick briefing, the throngs of protesters, hailing from Chicago, San Francisco, Staten Island, and other locales, gathered on Baer’s front lawn and marched to his front door. Members of NPA delivered a letter to a family member who opened the door. Baer, this family member said, wasn’t home. The letter, addressed to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, asks Moynihan to meet with groups "to address the critical problems facing our neighborhoods and our country—problems that were caused in part by Bank of America and that continue to fester due to Bank of America’s inaction."
Michelle Malkin wrote about NPA's role in demanding "homeowner security" in the form of government loans to minorities in 2004. It seems Bank of America along with the other targeted financial institutions were merely fulfilling the demands for guaranteed loans, now they are being demonized when those who received the loans can't repay them. How are those donations to Democratic candidates working out for you Mr. Baer?
As you will see in the video, one woman is featured speaking to the group assembled at the home of Gregory Baer. The woman claims she was called by a debt collector at Bank of America 30 minutes after she was informed her son died in a tragic car accident. I have the greatest sympathy for anyone who loses a child. That said, the woman's outrage that the collector did not offer her sympathies seems strangely unbelievable. Had I lost a child, I would have been in no position to take a phone call from anyone let alone recall exactly the wording a bill collector used in the call.
Were it not for the fact that every single demonstration organized on the left takes the same tone using a script borrowed from the Presidential pitch for health care, I would be inclined to give this woman the benefit of the doubt. Every speech has a villain. Every rally has a tragic story that is completely unrelated to the issue at hand. More often than not, we find the speakers to be either props,frauds or some combination of both.
Having run their course, for the time being anyway, with the insurance industry, it is time to turn to finish the hatchet job on the financial industry. I guess we can expect to see more rent-a-mob protests on the lawns of financial industry executives in the days to come:
Via Breitbart & Naked Emperor News comes this revealing video clip of SEIU Executive VP Gerry Hudson discussing opposition to immigration reform. Language warning applies here which is why I didn't highlight the most startling line from this clip in the headline. SEIU and other union leaders betray their own membership in pushing for immigration reform largely so they have the opportunity to add newly legal immigrants to their union rolls to fill their coffers. How to counter that opposition, why paint them all as racists and their black membership as unwitting dupes of white racists manipulating them into being scared of losing jobs to a huge influx of newly legal immigrants. What's that unemployment rate at these days? Can't be that, it has to be the opposition is "so f***ing rabidly racist. He isn't really worried about opposition from the black community though, "it doesn't take a whole lot to argue African-American workers to another place." Essentially the message is they're pretty easily manipulated if you tell them look over there at all those white racists. Nice, shows great respect for the African-Americans he represents doesn't it?
Fleming and Hayes have a stunning video of a report by a handicapped SEIU worker who was denied access to the Clinton/Coakley event. Was it the handicap or was the handicap the fact he actually supported Brown?
Read the rest at Fleming and Hayes who have plenty of photos of some brave SEIU workers who support Brown and are angry at their union for selling them out. They also have video of Clinton leaving the event to chants of , "Thanks for stopping by, Bill, how about you go help Haiti now?" Also, be sure to see the video of a foreign Coakley supporter being taken into custody. What's up with that?
Among the Brown supporters were - believe it or not - rank-and-file members of the Service Employees International Union.
"We're Americans - we have our free choice," said one of the SEIU members, who identified herself only as Michelle and said she drove more than 60 miles from Western Massachusetts - "The stepchild of this state" - to show her support for Brown in Worcester.
Legal Insurrection is posting photos from the ground in Massachusetts today. He has a couple of those strange Purple for Brown sightings as well. Perhaps there is a bit of mutiny among the Cavalry?
Still, the SEIU is all about power and will drop a shower of purple rain in the form of cash on the Coakley campaign. The GOP is paying attention, a fact which seems to irk the SEIU:
"Here's more proof the Republican attack machine has no answers on the issues Massachusetts voters care about -- jobs, healthcare and fixing the mess left by the previous administration," shot back Jon Youngdahl, SEIU's national political director. "Their biggest concern? That people who work hard for a living might turn out and vote."
Linked by Stacy McCain at The American Spectator. Thank You and welcome Spectator readers!
H/T: Hot Air Headlines American Research Group has a poll of 600 likely voters in Massachusetts conducted between January 12-14 showing Scott Brown with a 3 point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley. Here is a breakdown of the results"
The poll has a margin of error of 4 points which points to the likelihood the race this Tuesday will be a nailbiter. I think we expected that already. Here are a few highlights from the results:
Brown leads 58 to 37% among Independent voters
Brown leads 54 to 39% among men while Coakley has a narrower lead among women 50 to 44%.
9% of likely voters have already voted by absenteee. Among those voters Brown leads 58 to 42, wow.
Brown holds a sizable lead among younger voters 52 to 42 while Coakley has a 1 point lead among voters 50 and older.
The smaller sample size leads to a higher margin of error. Brown has substantial leads over Coakley among Independents and among younger voters. Brown is taking 20% of registered Democrats while Coakley gets only 1% of the registered Republicans. This all bodes well for Brown.
One concerning point is Coakley's slim lead among older voters. I would suggest there is a significant difference between the 50-64 age group and the over 65 group. Those over 65 could be greatly impacted by the cuts to Medicare whereas the 50-64 age group might see those cuts as preserving Medicare as they approach the age for enrollment. I would be interested in seeing if the over 65 group was inclined to support Brown over Coakley.
Clearly Democrats must be nervous, but Democrats don't nailbite they call in the Cavalry. The Other McCain who is reporting from the ground in Massachusetts linked a disturbing anecdote reported at DaTechGuy's Blog:
For example at the Bill Clinton event in Worcester at the end while I waited for my son to attempt to get the president autograph (in vain) I stood quietly next to some much better dressed men from the Coakley Campaign who were apparently talking to Union guys from out of state. The gist was that the “Cavalry was coming” and they talked with the quiet confidence of gamblers who know which boxer is going to take a dive.
Michelle Malkin warns the purple army "marches on Massachusetts." I hope the GOP has learned a lesson from the Coleman/Franken race, get some lawyers to Masssachusetts and challenge everything.
