Executive Club Reminder!
7:00 pm • Wednesday September 6th • Airport Shilo Inn
What is it with the left and its mirror-imaged vocabulary?
They consider themselves "progressive", while regressing
toward less religious freedom and respect for life.
And they claim to be "transparent" in governance,
while concealing corruption woven into spending that
would make a spider drop dead from jealousy.
Conflicts of interest, no-bid contracts going to friends,
money spent without justification, salaries exploding...
while the news media keeps its ink in the barrel
instead of screaming in 400pt headlines.
Whatever happened to INVESTIGATIVE journalism, anyway?
Given up for SHOE FASHION journalism, instead?
It took a fellow from the second most corrupt place in the
country to get tired of that deep-seated criminal disregard
for the taxpayers, and do something about it. Like claw open
the books of government and expose the facts to anyone
who wants to know.
Want to know who's emptying your pockets here in Oregon?
Meet our September speaker:
Adam Andrzejewski
Adam Andrzejewski is founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com,
the world's largest private database of public spending
which has captured 4 billion federal, state, and local
GOVERNMENT expenditures of OUR money,
and also co-founder of HomePages Directories,
a $20 million publishing company (1997-2007).
You've probably read something he wrote, or heard
something he said, because he's prolific:
- "Track Government Spending on Your Phone"
(Wall Street Journal)
- "Why Does the IRS Need Guns?" (Co-author with
Dr. Tom Coburn, Wall Street Journal)
- Forbes contributor with nearly 2 million views
- Guest on Brian Lamb's C-SPAN Q&A August 2017
- Works featured on Good Morning America, USA Today, CNN,
ABC World News Tonight, Boston Globe, RealClearPolitics,
NBC, CBS, and Innovation Nation (a FOX News Special).
Not enough? He also ran for Governor of Illinois in 2010,
endorsed by Nobel Laureate Lech Walesa,
was named the 2012 American-Swiss Foundation Young Leader,
and recieved the 2014 'Best Public Policy App' from the
Web Marketing Association.
Oh, and he's a Graduate of Northern Illinois University,
a five-time Chicago Marathon runner,
lector at St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church, and...
a husband and father of three daughters in Hinsdale, Illinois.
From honest appropriation and spending, all the way down
to corrupt cronyism and outright theft, it should be a
perfectly rabble-rousing Wednesday night! Join us!
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Portland Airport Shilo Inn ~~ 11707 Northeast Airport Way
Bring a friend! ~~ $20 select menu option ~~ no host bar
And of course, the cigar room, afterward
Next meeting after this: October 4th
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Good afternoon,
I wanted to give you an update on Freedom Foundation's successes since we opened our Oregon doors almost two years to the day.
Since we opened our doors in August 2015 we have litigated SEIU 503 to free people from the union. We have wrangled with the state over public records to be able to tell these workers about their rights under Harris vs Quinn -- giving "right to work" to home care workers. We have also wrangled with the state over finding out the most basic of information about union membership in Oregon. Information we can easily obtain from other states is a battle of wits and wills in Oregon. We fight, and we are the only ones who do it exclusively every day, with government unions. All. Day. Long.
A recent public records request that we pried from the state tells us the following:
- There are 55,000 SEIU 503 members in Oregon. That is a mix of government workers and health care providers.
- 28,687 of them are home care, child care and personal support workers; we know from a recent records request.
- Prior to Harris vs Quinn, all 55,000 were forced members of SEIU 503 -- paying dues to them regardless of their wishes to not do so.
- As of May 2017, 11,399 of home care and personal support worker... were not members of SEIU 503.
- SEIU 503 has lost about 25% of its membership in the last three years.
That roughly translates to just under $400,000 dollars a month in lost union dues, no longer in SEIU 503's pockets. No longer being cycled through hard-left, one-sided politics in Oregon.
We
bragged about this success publicly on Friday in a press release. And that press release has traveled. Oh how it's traveled.
That exodus of members translates to $4.8 million a year -- no longer being cycled through hard-left, one sided politics.
That translates to $4.8 million a year -- back into the hands of hard working caregivers who receive Medicaid to give in-home care to another person.
For a perspective, SEIU and its affiliates, spent $5.3 million dollars on Measure 97 just last year. We all remember that costly and outrageous fight.
We anticipate seeing more forced union members leaving their union, but more importantly, fewer agreeing to be in the union to begin with; thanks to Harris vs Quinn.
We anticipate seeing another Supreme Court case next summer that will offer the same freedoms to all government union members.
Rest assured. We are ready. We are ready to continue our current education program to union members. We are ready to launch another education program seamlessly when the next Supreme Court case grants more freedoms. We are the only organization in the U.S. poised and ready to launch a wide scale, successful union outreach program.
Your support is key. I tell supporters every chance I get "I make sure every dollar I spend costs the union ten dollars. If I spend a hundred dollars, they will spend a thousand." I think we can agree our education program has done that and will continue to do so.
For more entertainment, here is some of the great media that has picked up the story of our recent success in informing home care workers of their rights. Every one of these media mentions names Freedom Foundation's operations in Oregon.
Statewide Media:
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Editorial: Don't force union employees to pay for representation they don't want",
The Bend Bulletin, 2 August, 2017.
National Media:
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Anti-union nonprofit finds success undercutting Big Labor",
Washington Examiner, 31 July 2017.
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Workers Reject Unions, Costing Big Labor -- and Democrats -- $10 Million",
PJ Media, 1 August 2017.
"
This Group Figured Out How to Stop Big Labor from Donating to Democrats",
NTKNetwork.com, 1 August 2017.
You're part of this success, and we're only two years into this. Please consider supporting us. Here are a couple of ways:
Click
here to give a direct donation earmarked for Oregon's operation.
Click
here to join us for our Annual Dinner to hear more of our mission and celebrate.
Thank you for your ongoing and strident support of Oregon Freedom Foundation. Without you, we wouldn't be successful.
And the battle has only begun.
Anne Marie Gurney
Oregon Director |
Freedom Foundation
AGurney@FreedomFoundation.com
cell 503-901-5635 l ofc 503.951.6208 | PO Box 18146 Salem, OR 97305
FreedomFoundation.com
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