Executive Club Meeting!
7:00 pm • Wednesday November 1st • Airport Shilo Inn
You know they're NEVER going to quit, right?
Personally, I think it's all because of addiction
to the ultimate Oregon leftie-drug, PERS.
And addicts will do ANYTHING for a steady supply.
Signs of addiction? Desperation and deceit!
So here comes yet another "assessment" proposal,
( catch the deception, not calling it a "tax"? )
this time taxing health insurance and hospitals.
Apparently Salem figures the ACA hasn't stolen enough!
And knowing the people of Oregon might object,
the lefties have doubled down to keep this alive:
writing law to let them decide the ballot title,
and scheduling the election to minimize turnout.
( MORE deception and MORE desperation! )
Where are the Democrats' heads with taxes like this?
Thinking so twisted it'll take a political colonoscopy
to excise those leftie brain tax-and-spend lesions,
and get Salem to reduce spending instead of hurting
EVERYONE with such outright theft of resources!
Our November Consulting "Libero-enterologist":
Lindsay Berschauer
Lindsay is the owner and President of Leona Consulting Co.,
a political and public affairs firm. She started her
involvement in Oregon public policy at Cascade Policy Institute,
successfully battling the 2011 huge $548M Portland Public
Schools bond measure, then joined Third Century Solutions as
the Director of the Oregon Transformation Project. She started
her company in 2013 and aggressively opposed the CRC. She has
organized candidate and issue-based campaigns throughout Oregon,
helped preserve the state's small business tax cut,
and now has joined the Stop Healthcare Taxes campaign.
Join us Wednesday night, while Lindsay takes us on a tour
of the dark strategies the Salem left is using,
and describes the battle to kill this regressive tax.
Bring your inspection cameras, flashlights, and ballot markers!
Hey, Salem left, grit your teeth! This is gonna hurt!
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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: December 6th
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Good afternoon,
Thank you to all who attended Freedom Foundation’s Annual Dinner. What a great evening! We appreciate the support and encouragement.
Two things for you:
1. If you were unable to attend but want to support what we do,
click here. It’s easy and confidential.
2. For your viewing pleasure. One of the many ways we measure our success is by what our opponents say about us and how they respond to us. Click below for some footage from the Bellevue Annual Dinner and the Portland Annual Dinner. You will notice the same blow up rat and fat cat at both events….yes, someone put those critters in a vehicle and drove them 3+ hours north—to protest Freedom Foundation. You will notice vulgarity and profanity. Classy bunch. There are blow up critters, foul language and gestures and even a man on stilts. If it weren’t so vulgar, one might think there was a parade happening. We are, apparently, a threat....
Why? Because we let union members know their Constitutional rights regarding their forced union membership.
The protest was NOT about our speaker—it was about Freedom Foundation’s work to defund government unions by sharing the good news to union members about their rights.
Click
here for the video footage.
Thank you for your commitment to freedom.
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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.
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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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