Benishek Launches Ad and Money Bomb to Defeat Liberal Republican

Dr. Dan Benishek has launched a youtube video directing focus on his closest competitor in the district, Jason Allen.

SB 731 was introduced by Senator Jason Allen in August of 2009 to, in his view, protect home health care workers and the elderly. But the bill would create a relationship between the SEIU and healthcare workers in the state who provide home care to patients. The SEIU, a parent of ACORN, would, because of this legislation, be able to unionize the home care workers. Once unionized, the approximately 42,000 people would be filtering money to the SEIU from their paychecks. Some reports held that Jason Allen designed the legislation to be introduced and sent to his own Senate Committee, and was specially proposed to help Republican Mike Nofs in a special election in November of 2009. Two weeks after the bill was introduced, Nofs received the SEIU’s endorsement and 4 full time campaign workers. Six weeks prior to the bill’s introduction, Allen received a $2,000 campaign contribution from SEIU.

Jack McHugh of the The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank, and Wendy Day of Common Sense in Government, raised alarms about this bill in December of 2009. These people read, deconstruct and interpret bills so that the average citizen can understand what they mean. The bill was roundly criticized for months and months, and Jason Allen threw his hat into the First District Congressional race anyway, which amplified the awareness of the bill. After the Democrat Party took up the identical measure, Jason Allen changed wording in the bill May 27, 2010, and made it clear that it would not be a forced unionization scheme.

The argument that Allen supporters use has evolved from, “He did not unionize health workers,” to, “He was too trusting of writers of the bill,” to, “Read the bill now, there is no forced unionization in it.”

But, as John Adams said, “Facts are stubborn things.”

This legislation is so obviously a political overture to unions, but beyond that, think of the timeline. In August of 2009, what was the nation up in arms about? The Federal Government’s desire to take over health care was the focus of every news outlet, and on the minds of every concerned person. Congressional leaders were facing angry voters at town halls and tea partiers were livid. Yet Allen pressed forward with this bill that would pay the very union who helped President Barack Hussein Obama get elected in November 2008. ACORN is a powerful network of community organizers who were involved heavily in rampant voter fraud during the 2008 elections and are the same dangerous liberal entity that is threatening to compromise our elections this November.

Join Dan Benishek in defeating measures taken by Liberal Republicans in Michigan and their dangerous overtures to SEIU/ACORN.

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