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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeaked Audio Captures Romney Asking Employers To Tell Their Employees How To Vote
Newly-discovered audio from a conference call in June captures Mitt Romney asking business owners to urge their employees to vote for him.
Romney, speaking on a call to the very conservative National Federation of Independent Business, tells a group of business owners that they should make it very clear how they feel about the candidates. The audio, discovered by In These Times, also captures Romney telling the business owners to pass
along to your employees how their jobs might be effected by who wins in November:
I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope I hope you pass those along to your employees. Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/17/1037881/leaked-audio-romney-employers/
Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)USConstitution Title 18 Part I Chapter 29 section § 594
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101767936
Should CEO's be allowed to force employees to vote Republican?
At the beginning, Thom read a condensed form of 18 USC Sec. 594 (US Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 29, Section 594):
Whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)you know, all those people you own.