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babsbunny

(8,441 posts) Sun Oct 14, 2012, 05:58 PM Oct 2012

Smells like desperation+++Koch Industries, other CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelecte

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/koch-industries-sends-pro-romney-packet-employees-195709471--election.html

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Ticket

Koch Industries, the Wichita, Kan.-based company run by the billionaire Koch brothers, sent a voter information packet to 45,000 employees of its Georgia Pacific subsidiary earlier this month.

In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that "many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences" of voting for President Obama and other Democrats in the 2012 elections, a list of conservative candidates the company's political action committee endorses and a pair of editorials: one, by David Koch, supporting Mitt Romney, and the other, by Charles Koch, condemning Obama.

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Smells like desperation+++Koch Industries, other CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelecte (Original Post) babsbunny Oct 2012 OP

Fire 'em all and ship the jobs overseas Bluzmann57 Oct 2012 #1

Then they have no right to complain about unemployment LTR Oct 2012 #2

They'll do it either way. Unfortunately, some people will be swayed by this illegal intimidation. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #3

Arrest the Koch Brothers and turn the companies over to the employees MattBaggins Oct 2012 #4

This is what it will come down to. Either take it all back or wear the yoke. Egalitarian Thug Oct 2012 #6

Confiscate their assets (civil forfeiture) while they're at it meow2u3 Oct 2012 #13

They're threatening them with their jobs. Dirty Cha Oct 2012 #5

There seriously ought to be laws mzmolly Oct 2012 #7

I can't believe there's not. nt LaydeeBug Oct 2012 #8

You can tweet the company and yr followers underthematrix Oct 2012 #9

If I worked at GP wilt the stilt Oct 2012 #10

They'll do it regardless. I personally wouldn't want to work for a company like that. ncav53 Oct 2012 #11

This looks like them may have broken the law where is the DOJ? awake Oct 2012 #12

If you're stupid enough to be intimidated by that..... RagAss Oct 2012 #14

Bluzmann57

(12,336 posts)

1. Fire 'em all and ship the jobs overseas

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:00 PM

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Hell that's what the koch bros. want anyway.
Or here's another idea: Arrest and convict them (the koch's, etc.) for violating USA election laws.

LTR

(13,227 posts)

2. Then they have no right to complain about unemployment

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:03 PM

Oct 2012

Especially when they're adding to it.

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

3. They'll do it either way. Unfortunately, some people will be swayed by this illegal intimidation.

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:03 PM

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MattBaggins

(7,904 posts)

4. Arrest the Koch Brothers and turn the companies over to the employees

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:13 PM

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Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)

6. This is what it will come down to. Either take it all back or wear the yoke.

Reply to MattBaggins (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:17 PM

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There is no workable "compromise" with these parasites. They are willing to kill to keep their power, are we willing to die to take it back?

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)

13. Confiscate their assets (civil forfeiture) while they're at it

Reply to MattBaggins (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:52 PM

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Turn their fortune over to the employees, too.

Cha

(297,248 posts)

5. They're threatening them with their jobs. Dirty

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:16 PM

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Kochroaches want to take over the world.

mzmolly

(50,993 posts)

7. There seriously ought to be laws

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:19 PM

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against this shit.

LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)

8. I can't believe there's not. nt

Reply to mzmolly (Reply #7)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:20 PM

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underthematrix

(5,811 posts)

9. You can tweet the company and yr followers

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:20 PM

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letting them know what is happening. simply tell them K*K brothers have threatened employees who vote for President Obama and Dems down ticket.

wilt the stilt

(4,528 posts)

10. If I worked at GP

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:22 PM

Oct 2012

I would have my resume out there tomorrow. This is absoulutely letting the employees that they are shit on the bottom of their shoe.

ncav53

(168 posts)

11. They'll do it regardless. I personally wouldn't want to work for a company like that.

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 06:22 PM

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awake

(3,226 posts)

12. This looks like them may have broken the law where is the DOJ?

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:22 PM

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"federal law bans “intimidat[ing], threaten[ing], coerc[ing], or attempt[ing] to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person . . . to vote as he may choose."

http://www.trolp.org/main_pgs/issues/v16n2/Volokh.pdf

RagAss

(13,832 posts)

14. If you're stupid enough to be intimidated by that.....

Reply to babsbunny (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 07:56 PM

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I doubt you're employable anyway.

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