Allentown union official Nick Balzano has been a political punching bag all week because he threatened to file a grievance against the city for allowing a Boy Scout to clear a walking path in a city park.
Three days of taking body blows nationally from conservative pundits, a rebuke from the Lehigh Valley’s congressman and even a lashing from his own union led Balzano to voluntarily resign his position Thursday as head of the local Service Employees International Union.
Balzano said he and seven other executive officers of the local SEIU stepped down.
Via HolyCoast.com. Note that the SEIU itself hung Balzano out to dry: when your guys are already out there on camera beating up protesters and gadflies, it’s not a good time to start a fight with the Boy Scouts of America*. I suggest that the various loyalists of that organization keep that in mind.
Moe Lane
*Not that it’s ever a good time. Nobody smart in American politics messes with the Scouts. Boy or Girl Scouts.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Dan Spencer
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Caleb Howe
Nobody messes with the Scouts.
Mike (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 7:27PM EST (link)If anybody EVER messes with the supply chain of Thin Mints, I will personally go jihadi on their posterior.
I have the strangest feeling I won’t be alone in that sentiment.
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Jeff Weimer (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 7:55PM EST (link)Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
5! nt
TNJim (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 8:57PM EST (link)They are...
Big Apple Infidel (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 10:20PM EST (link)Greetings from occupied territory!
Comments are always interesting
SteveLA (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 7:34PM EST (link)Moe,
Did you read any of the comments from the story you linked? I get more out of those sometimes, more so than the story. Seems most posters are a bit, shall we say “peeved” at the SEIU.
I do wonder what sort of job Nick Balzano does for the city, maybe strong arm collections of parking fines?
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
I bet he's the guy who tyrannizes jury pools,
blooch Sunday, November 22nd at 5:20PM EST (link)and the only snow shovel he’s ever touched is the one he eats with.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
kowalski...My Bear Den, the "Jedi Hyenas"
blooch Sunday, November 22nd at 5:26PM EST (link)could beat him absolutely senseless–a light beating in more ways than one–with their sabers.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Wasn't it bho who was pushing volunteerism?
muffin Saturday, November 21st at 7:35PM EST (link)Now what’s he going to say? “I, uh, mean, uh, we should make sure all our uh, ummm, union jobs are filled before I, uh, want um, people to volunteer.”
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
When two different positions on the left go at it
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 7:57PM EST (link)I root for INJURIES.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
Same thing I do
Raven (Diary) Monday, November 23rd at 2:32PM EST (link)During a Cowboys Redskins game…
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
If it were just a matter of being an idiot,
ubetcha Monday, November 30th at 1:20AM EST (link)the numbers of union officials would decrease dramatically. Most I’ve ever met lack any sort of common sense or skill but somehow they have an undeserved respect and job security I do not understand.
Any one I ever spoke to in a union situation generally agrees with me about the incompetence of their people in the same industry.
It’s really too bad that being a idiots is not enough to reduce their numbers; they have to do something to very publicly display their idiotic nature before they get canned. It seems like merely creating a liability is just not enough.
I’m a lefty pretending to be a Republican. That is why I got banned. Why do I do such stupid things? My Leader, Barack Obama, is a miserable failure, and so I come here to cause trouble.
I'm calling moby on ubetcha.
Achance (Diary) Monday, November 30th at 2:36AM EST (link)Nobody is this stupid. You know, kid, you just have to get the vocabulary and syntax down a little better. Better luck next time; somebody will be along with the blam stick presently.
In Vino Veritas
Good spot, Achance
Finrod (Diary) Monday, November 30th at 1:27PM EST (link)Since Neil blammed him in another thread (and modified his signature appropriately), I’m guessing that he didn’t cover his tracks well enough to not be found out.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
What's the term that's so, I dunno, two years ago?
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 7:56PM EST (link)Oh yeah,
OH, SNAP!!!
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
Have read the comments
proudmarinemom (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 8:10PM EST (link)about the SEIU in the Morning Call and beyond. Wage earners have almost had it with the unions.
Note: Boeing has moved a huge operation to Right-to-Work State: South Carolina… from Right-to-Pierce, Tatoo and Malign- the- Military- State: Washington.
Call the WAaambulance.
When do their jobs as Oblahblah adviCZARs start?
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 8:21PM EST (link)we all know Liberals goof up their way to the top of the Democrat Political hierarchy…. Guess this opens up a cushy job for Anita Dung to take over now she needs a different do-nothing paycheck!
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
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“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”
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I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)
I hate to disagree...
jcincy Saturday, November 21st at 8:51PM EST (link)A few years back the homosexuals were attacking the Boy Scouts… I believe the legal assault even reached the Supreme Court.
I called Senator Voinovich and Dewine to urge them to support the Scouts. I was told by their staffers, “You don’t understand how powerful the gay lobby is… blah, blah, blah…”. Pathetic.
For the record, Congressman Chabot expressed his 100% for the Boy Scouts… along with my State Rep and State Senator.
“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” — John Jay
Wanna have fun this CHRISTMAS?
DerKrieger (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 9:07PM EST (link)O/T – My dad sent me this in e-mail and I thought it was funny enough to share. Should definitely be a Red State Christmas plan.
It is time to get out your CHRISTMAS cards list!
Yes, you read this right….. CHRISTMAS cards.
This is coming early (really early) so that you can get
ready to include an important address to your list.
Read on……..
Fun with the ACLU……
Wanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS?
Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS card this year.
As they are working so very hard to get rid of the
CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send
them a nice CHRISTIAN card to brighten up their
dark, sad, little world.
Make sure it says “Merry CHRISTMAS” on it.
Here’s the address;
just don’t be rude or crude.
(That’s not the Christian way, you know!)
ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Two tons of CHRISTMAS cards would freeze their
operations because they wouldn’t know if any were
regular mail containing contributions. So spend
44 cents and tell the ACLU to leave CHRISTMAS
alone.
We really need to communicate with the ACLU!
They really DESERVE us!!
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690
Send one to CAIR, too
Raven (Diary) Monday, November 23rd at 2:36PM EST (link)CAIR Headquarters
453 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.
Washington, DC 20003
Postage due, if you can.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
Because I'm evil...
NRPax (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 9:14PM EST (link)I like to imagine that Mr. Balzano changed his mind after waking up and finding a belt full of merit badges on his bedside table.
Riflery, Fencing, and Archery all featuring prominently, of course
Raven (Diary) Monday, November 23rd at 2:38PM EST (link)And a totin’ Chit pinned to it.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
Redstate Badge?
daddyofducks (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 9:23PM EST (link)The Boy Scout ought to get a badge for this, does Redstate have one someone could send him!
If Allentown authorized or knew and suffered his doing the work,
Achance (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 9:41PM EST (link)the union would probably have won the arbitration. Cleaning that trail was in the union’s work jurisdiction and they had laid off members; they’re entitled to the work and if the city authorized him to do it or knew he was doing it and suffered it; under most contracts and before most labor arbitrators, the union or some member gets paid as if they had performed the work. That’s just the way the system works.
What’s interesting is that SEIU was sensitive enough to the politics to back down and may well have put themselves in a situation where they pulled the rug out from under a local board and the board quit over it. There’s more here than meets the eye and we don’t know all the facts.
In Vino Veritas
In Any Event, It Is A Good Day When a Union Eats Its Own
rcov092 (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 10:00PM EST (link)n/t
“Not One Red Dime for the NRSC or NRCC till they stop trying to elect liberals”
Join the RedState Strike Force
Your Union-fu is awesome, Achance
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 11:35PM EST (link)It is simply true they will get money for labor not theirs.
And that’s why we need to readjust union contracts.
If they want to get in between volunteer activism, we need to renegotiate their contracts.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
It's sad when union leadership forgets that their primary function
Tbone (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 9:41PM EST (link)is to skim the till.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
5! -nt-
civil truth (Diary) Saturday, November 21st at 11:50PM EST (link)The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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Moe, you are absolutely right about not messing with Scouts.
The_Gadfly (Diary) Sunday, November 22nd at 8:45AM EST (link)I will never give to United Way because some of their chapters decided to remove the Boy Scouts of America from the organizations they fund. At the time I was in PA and it wasn’t the local affiliates, but that doesn’t matter to me. The UW will not get a dime from me nor will I ever support their fund raising efforts. Until I was laid off I regularly sent a small contribution to the Lancaster-Lebanon council where I was a Scout. As soon as I am employed again, they will be the first ones back on my donation list.