AFL-CIO's Trumka: "Bloomberg Runs Risk Of Standing On Wrong Side Of History"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.workingamerica.org/blog/2011/10/13/afl-cio-president-richard-trumka-on-occupy-wall-street-and-mayor-bloomberg/

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Occupy Wall Street and Mayor Bloomberg

(The following is a statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on October 13, 2011)

Mayor Bloomberg runs the risk of standing on the wrong side of history tomorrow. It is clear that what is being threatened in Zuccotti Park is nothing but silencing the voices and stomping out the rights of Americans. Participants in Occupy Wall Street are now in their fourth week of declaring that “we are the 99 percent” because our system is desperately, decisively out of whack—the top one percent is pocketing massive profits and dominating our politics while everyone else struggles to make ends meet. It is shocking that Mayor Bloomberg feels like that’s a message that needs to be silenced. The AFL-CIO stands with Occupy Wall Street and the 99 percent of Americans just trying to level the massively unequal playing field.

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[Mimosa]

1. Are we forgetting Bloomberg is a REPUBLICAN?

As well as a little bully?

[doc03]

2. He is also one of the 1% n/t

[Canuckistanian]

11. Never mind the 1%

He's a member of the 0.1%

[SoCalNative]

5. He isn't really

he just switched his party label in order to get elected mayor.

[provis99]

7. that statement makes absolutely no sense.

Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 3 to 1 in NYC.

[smokey nj]

12. Rudy Guiliani was elected NYC Mayor twice.

Bloomberg ran as a Republican because he probably couldn't win the Democratic primary.

[provis99]

13. that's even sillier than the first guy's post.

Bloomberg is a Republican because he believes in Republican ideals. Or do you think he's a Democrat in disguise?

And anybody who can't even win their own party's primary is not going to win the general election.

[smokey nj]

14. It's not silly, it's what happened.

Bloomberg switched parties to avoid the Democratic primary.

[SoCalNative]

15. Ahem

A lifelong Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his registration in 2001 and ran for mayor as a Republican, winning the election that year and a second term in 2005. Bloomberg left the Republican Party over policy and philosophical disagreements with national party leadership in 2007 and ran for his third term in 2009 as an independent candidate on the Republican ballot line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. I LOVE it.

Thank you Hissyspit :hi:

[gratuitous]

4. Harumph!

Why, that's class warfare, that is! Don't those people know they're not supposed to fight back? Take your beatings and like it, says the top 1%.

[chill_wind]

6. K & R.

:applause:

[Ignis]

8. K&R. Thanks for speaking out for the 99%, Trumka.

[JDPriestly]

9. +10000

[Omaha Steve]

10. K&R!