From the Blogosphere to Politics

Good article. One small quibble: Criticism of Bane's SEIU work came from the left before anyone on the right picked it up and parroted it. The former manager of the Jared Polis campaign privately (then publicly) complained about Bane's perceived bias in commentary and coverage of Polis' race against union-backed Joan Fitz-Gerald. ToTheRight got hold of it, but people on the left sympathetic to Polis pressed the issue.

It was the progressive site, SquareState.net, that conclusively "outed" Bane as a SEIU employee last November:

http://www.squarestate.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=4918

"While writing under his pseudonym, he also does not disclose that he is a paid communications staffer of an arm of the SEIU, and that his union job gives him a clear stake in supporting the SEIU endorsed candidate in the 2nd Congressional District primary. Quite frequently in this race ColoradoPols has taken an oppositional stance against one opponent of the SEIU candidate, and has been harshly critical of that opponent's staff. Consequently, various calls for disclosure (both on the blog and as a matter of campaign finance compliance) have been made by the targets and their supporters."

Maybe Jason can bring the same stalinist tactics practiced by SEIU to the jeffco board.

Recently 800 SEIU staffers violently attacked a conference of unionists advocating union democracy.

http://www.labornotes.org/node/1604 &
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/22/12736/8368

SEIU's model of organizing is centered on making sell-out deals with bosses against the interests of workers.

http://www.servingemployersinsteadofus.org

SEIU leader Andy Stern has promoted a cult of personality and is intent on crushing all democracy within the union.

see recent posts at Union Democracy blog

http://bensonsudblog.blogspot.com/

SEIU members have formed a reform movement to bring back democracy and
member-centered unionism (not Stern-centered).

see
www.seiuvoice.org
www.reformseiu.org
democracy4seiu.org

More examples of SEIU illegal corruption and undermining of democracy at
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=151029623

The so-called Colorado WINS organization was created in Washington DC
and is controlled by a committee of 4 union officials, none of whom live
in Colorado. There is no provision in the Colorado WINS merger document
for any rank and file voice. SEIU sold out Colorado state employees by
agreeing to the weakest form of representation, with no real collective
bargaining or right to independent arbitration, letting the governor
off the hook. And then SEIU connived with the governor to take away
employees right to strike.

SEIU is bad news for workers.

Of course, Jason Bane having had no experience in the trade union movement
as a staff person - let alone a rank and file worker - prior to joining
SEIU, would not understand that. He's just a political hack and fits very
well into a company union like SEIU.