Teaparty Congressman Collects Disability From His Union Job

[im1013]

On August 23, 2011, in Insanity, by Ezra Grant

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Rep. Chip Cravaack won the midterm elec­tion for Min­nesota in 2010, thanks in part to his extreme Tea­party plat­form. The newly elected con­gress­man even voted for the Paul Ryan Tea­party backed bud­get, that will end medicare and replace it with a voucher pro­gram which seniors would be expected to use to sat­isfy their health needs.

But a lit­tle over­looked fact about Chip Cravaack is that he worked as a pilot for the North­west Air­lines as recently as 2007 and being a pilot means that you are a mem­ber of a Union, thus receiv­ing the ben­e­fits of union nego­ti­ated salaries, vaca­tions and ulti­mately, dis­abil­ity payments.

Recent finan­cial records released by Cravaack showed that he received $92,273 in 2010 from dis­abil­ity pay­ments he received from North­west. At this very same time Cravaack was receiv­ing his checks, he was cam­paign­ing in Min­nesota promis­ing to end “big gov­ern­ment,” and often using the usual Repub­li­can talk­ing points of bash­ing unions

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More at link: http://ezkool.com/2011/08/chip-cravaack-disability-payments/






Well now... Isn't that interesting??

Please repost this EVERYWHERE.

[Oceansaway]

1. K&R..n/t

[liberal N proud]

2. It's OK because he needs it

Nobody else should have that benefit but him.


















:sarcasm:

[FSogol]

3. Rep. Chip Cravaack - Today's Worst Person...in the wooooooooorrrrlllllddddd.

Typical GOP hypocrite.

[Brickbat]

4. Not a surprise -- everyone in the district knows it. He wasn't Oberstar, and that was good enough

for the people who voted for him.

Not only does he get his union pension, he was a picket-line boss during the Northwest strike.

And not only THAT, but he's shopping for a house in New Hampshire so his wife can be closer to her job in Boston. He says he'll spend weekdays in DC, and then one day a weekend in NH and one in Minnesota. :rofl:

[onehandle]

5. Commie. nt

[sakabatou]

6. Hypocrites everywhere

[MatthewStLouis]

7. When you think about it...isn't that what the "Tea Party" is all about?

A free ride. Getting everything for free. Wars without taxes. Infrastructure, like roads and electric grids, without taxes. Government benefits and services without taxes. Union benefits without paying any dues. That's what they are about... And these are the people who bellyache about how "Freedom Isn't Free"....

[im1013]

8. Yep, in a nutshell.

[Hosnon]

9. His circumstances are completely different.

They're his.

Duh.

[FarLeftFist]

10. H Y P O C R I S Y!

[jtown1123]

11. But that disability wasn't Social Security. It appears to be a private insurance, therefore

he can get away with it.

[savalez]

12. He's anti-himself.

Just like some other people I know. Idiots.

[Lunabelle]

13. Go unions!!

Aren't unions great?

[Enthusiast]

14. REGULAR Republican hypocrisy.

They all do it.