Palin: Our family struggled financially ‘until Todd and I got a couple of good union jobs.’

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/01/palin-union/

Last night on his radio show, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) if she and her husband “ever faced tough economic times.” Palin responded saying that her family struggled to get health insurance “until Todd and I both landed a couple of good union jobs.” She said further that she could identify with Americans who are suffering as a result of the economic downturn because her family is “going through that right now — even as we speak.” Listen here:

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Palin is right to credit her and her husband’s “good union jobs” with securing her family health insurance coverage. In fact, as SEIU notes, “workers in unions…are 63 percent more likely to have employer-provided health insurance” than non-union workers. Further, “union families pay 43% less for family coverage than nonunion families” and the coverage that union workers receive is “far more comprehensive.” Too bad Palin has done nothing to actually represent union interests.

It doesn't change my vote but I have to applaud her heartily for her brave mavericism opposing RW SOP... :evilgrin:

to smack this woman! I agree, she is pandering without shame!

Was it her time as an ESPN-wannabe?

Or did he have to take two Union jobs to make the mortgage?

McCAIN DOESN’T LIKE UNIONS
McCain: Unions Have Played ‘Important Role’ But Have ‘Serious Excesses.’ When asked if unions are good for America, McCain responded, “I think the unions have played a very important role in the history of this country to improve the plight and conditions of laboring Americans. I think that like many other monopolies, in some cases they have then serious excesses.” (GOP Dearborn Debate, MSNBC, 10/9/07)

McCain: Teachers Unions Serve Unions’ Interest, NOT Children’s Interest. McCain has repeatedly attacked teachers unions. “It’s time to break the grip of the education monopoly that serves the union bosses at the expense of our children,” he said. (The New York Times, 2/11/00)
McCain Says Government Workers Are ‘Crippled’ by Union Contracts. In his speech to the Oklahoma state legislature, McCain said, “We must streamline our workforce, demand high standards of behavior, promote excellence at every level based on merit and accountability, and not let good workers be crippled by the fine print of the latest union contract…. The civil service has strayed from its reformist roots and has mutated into a no-accountability zone, where employment is treated as an entitlement, good performance as an option, and accountability as someone else’s problem.” (Address to the Oklahoma state legislature, 5/21/07)

More here
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/mccain_wrights.cfm

Spouts right-wing rhetoric always. I keep asking him how he can vote against his interests. Changes subject.

I was talking to a woman union worker about my candidate. At the end this woman told me "I am going to split my ballot for the first time and vote for Sharon (my candidate). She has really supported us."
Vote for a Dem for the FIRST time???? I could have smacked her. She looked to be @50 so she should have had a little history.