Putin On The Mitts

I don't like this but I'm not really worried about it. Employees generally don't like their boss and they don't like people telling them how to vote on the shop floor. They sure don't like to lose a days pay and being forced to attend a rally. I think this is more likely to backfire than to get votes for Romney.

This really is something that shouldn't be allowed IMO.

A good friend of mine is in charge of one of the GP entities and I emailed asking to let me know if the employees there got this letter and what was the reaction.

I'm hoping it just pissed everyone off.  Will be interesting to find out.

This should be getting more media attention and really be exposed.

Thanks for this.

This is the kind of insidious thing that tends to become normal after awhile.  Campaigning at work, especially with intimidation, is nuts.  "Troubling" hardly describes it.  This should never happen, and in a saner century it never would.

From your article: 

As Marquette University law professor Paul Secunda told me last year:

"Before Citizens United, federal election law allowed a company like Koch Industries to talk to officers and shareholders about whom to vote for, but not to talk with employees about whom to vote for. Now, companies like Koch Industries are free to send out newsletters persuading their employees how to vote. They can even intimidate their employees into voting for their candidates. It’s a very troubling situation."

When the Comrade Bossman tells you who to vote for, everybody applauds, don't be the first to stop clapping.

Tom Toles has said on Mitt and workers: it would be yet another herculean psychic disconnect listening to Mr. Bain Capital shedding tears over displaced workers.

I was surprised to hear the hidden agenda within Citizen's united ... where an employer is free to lecture employees about how their political preferences could impact their employment, wages and benefits. Makes me wonder if the Supreme Court understood the impact their decision would have in the electoral process. It definitely skews the impartiality the judicial branch is suppose to exercise, in my opinion.