Democrat Caddell rips White House for obeisance to organized labor

This is beyond amazing to have Pat Cadell say that Obama White House is creating "a world in which there is no dissent" because that is how Obama comes across to us. You do not disagree with Obama and his Chicago thugs or you are on the outside looking in which looks to be what happened to Cadell, a democrat consultant.

We were concerned that unions would have the upper hand in the Obama White House and it looks like that it is the case. It is pretty evident that Obama is bought and paid for by the SEIU and other union groups. We have yet to figure out why federal employees have such heavy handed unions when by law they are not allowed to strike. Actually when you stop to think, it makes you wonder why there are any unions representing public employees. Not only do they have unions but very strong unions who use thug tactics.

Obama seems to be the perfect example of saying one thing during the campaign and doing a 180 after elected for the most part but one thing has come true -- the fear a lot of us had that the unions would be running the Government.

“What I said about Andy Stern and the SEIU? Sure, they’re thugs,” said Caddell

It is one thing for us to say that the SEIU is a group of thugs, but to have Pat Caddell say the same thing gives extra credibility to the 'thug' statement.

Democrat Caddell rips White House for obeisance to organized labor
Jon Ward
February 17, 2010

Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell on Wednesday blasted the Obama White House for creating “a world in which there is no dissent,” following his banishment from Colorado Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s campaign for Senate.

Caddell, in a phone interview with The Daily Caller, doubled down on the comments he made in November, when he said public sector employee unions in Colorado used as leverage to get him tossed from the Romanoff campaign.

“What I said about Andy Stern and the SEIU? Sure, they’re thugs,” said Caddell, a former adviser to President Jimmy Carter, who until Wednesday had an informal advising role with the primary challenger to incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.

Caddell said he does not fault Romanoff, a former state House speaker, for cutting ties with him after his remarks from November — in which he called the Service Employee Union International (SEIU) “thugs” and said the goal of the environmental movement is to “deconstruct capitalism” — were made public.

But Caddell said the comments were pushed into the public spotlight by the state chapters of the SEIU and the AFL-CIO, who called on the Romanoff campaign to get rid of him or risk losing any chance of getting labor’s endorsement.

“The unions have been considering endorsing Romanoff, and basically they told him that if I was involved with the campaign, ‘sayonara,’ which I think is the definition of thuggery isn’t it?” said Caddell, who has worked for a who’s who of Democratic politicians over the last few decades, including Ted Kennedy, George McGovern, Mario Cuomo and Gary Hart.

The SEIU and AFL-CIO have not responded to requests for comment. Neither have the Bennet campaign or the Romanoff campaign.

Caddell’s larger point is that Obama has allowed the Democratic party to be run by special interests such as the SEIU, and that the White House itself has reinforced the idea that no disagreement with their policies or ideas can be expressed.

“What they have created is a world in which there is no dissent. Don’t look at me. Look at [Sen.] Evan Bayh. People, with some justification, may think that I’m crazy. But he is the center of the establishment if there was ever was someone,” Caddell said. “When there’s no room in the Democratic party for him and there’s no room in the Democratic party for me, and the unions do get to make those kinds of calls in defense of the indefensible, because, ‘We own you,’ well, the Democratic party will be finished.”

The White House has not responded to request for comment.

Caddell said he is being ostracized for sounding alarms about the problem that public sector unions are posing for the Democratic party. He said he supports industrial unions but that government employee unions such as the SEIU — which is one of the Democratic party’s biggest campaign contributors — violate the raison d’etre of the party, which is to “stand up for ordinary average Americans, not money and special interests.”

“I think the public unions are going to take the country and the Democratic party down the tubes,” Caddell said. “They’re in the business of taking care of — of asking taxpayers, asking ordinary people, to pay for people who make twice as much as they make, with benefit packages they will never see, and they’re told, you may not cut those.”

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