NAGE loses ... illegal influence peddling case

The Supreme Judicial Court just ruled against NAGE in a case concerning an illegal contract.

The
late and unlamented former president for life, Ken Lyons entered into
an illegal contingent "consulting contract" in an attempt to influence
a Mass Turnpike Authority (MTA) real estate development decision.

NAGE
agreed to pay Alfred Arcidi $250k if the MTA approved the proposed NAGE
Housing Project. MTA approved it and NAGE paid $200k, then reneged on
the $50k balance. Arcidi sued NAGE for the remaining $50k.

NAGE counter-sued making the extraordinary claim that they should be paid back the initial payment because the contract that NAGE prepared (one assumes, because only NAGE had signed it) was a contingent, influencing-peddling contract which is illegal under state law.... (so
I guess the devil made them do it?... or perhaps they were holding a
gun against their own head and threatening to pull the trigger if NAGE
didn't sign?)

The SJC, wasn't buying it.... the $200k of your dues money that NAGE paid on an illegal contract (the project was never built by the way), will not be returned.....

If you've got a fast Internet connection you can watch the oral arguments (there are some mildly humorous moments during exchanges between the Justices and the NAGE attorney....)

Here's the link to: Suffolk Law school web cast

Questions:

1. Could these idiots pour crap out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel??...
   
2. Don't you think there needs to be some over-sight and accountability for how they are spending your money???

Read the entire case yourself here:

ALFRED L. ARCIDI vs. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, INC.

Idiot Holway... NAGE alienates Deval Patrick...

Unit 1,3 & 6 Members will pay the price for Holway's arrogance..... at the bargaining table...... screwed again by NAGE incompetence!

David J. Holway, the tin-horn, fly-weight ,dictator of SEIU Local 5000 (aka NAGE), likes to think he is a real mover and shaker on the national stage. Caught up in the throes of a "delusion of grandeur", Holway went out of his way, and off the reservation, to insult Deval Patrick..... the next Governor of the Commonwealth! at the outset of the campaign...(while cozying up with Level- four loser, AG "Thom Who?" Reilly)

Patrick, of course, was not impressed with Holway's threats.... he scoffed.... but I'm willing to bet he remembers this episode when Holway (our "representative" at the bargaining table) sits down to negotiate the next contract.... JESUS! spare us.

I can just picture it when they sit down to negotiate our contract: ... "Oh hi, Dave Holway, hmmmm... yeah I remember you now.... you're the guy who was busting my ass over the ambassador to the Netherlands... (that reminds me... screw you AND your members.... ")

Folks, Holway has likely set us up for yet another crappy contract with his self-aggrandizing attempts to sound like a celebrity. Why can't this jerk, act like what he is: a local union president whose 1st concern should be for the Comm of Mass State Employees that fund his bloated salary?

The squash nosed drunk, is killing us at the bargaining table.... he has alienated both the the Legislature AND the new Governor .... this self-serving dolt must go!

MEMBERS of UNITS 1,3& 6....It is pretty clear:
NAGE is no longer representing YOUR interests...

DO YOU think it appropriate for idiot-boy Holway to to be insulting the future Governor (over who Bush is going to appoint as ambassador to the Netherlands???).... COME ON FOLKS, is that the kind of issue any of us care enough about to get into a pissing contest with the future Governor????.... talk about not knowing how to pick your battles!..... Holway is an utter FOOL!

While Holway was insulting Deval, he was selling us down the river to Willard Romney with below-the-rate-of-inflation contracts .... the two faced hypocrite!!!!

We have got to bring this dope and his toadies to heel!

Here's the Globe article ( a tip of the hat to "anonymous" for digging it up...thanks brother.... I checked it out, it's for real)

UNION IS PRESSING PATRICK TO RENOUNCE BUSH NOMINEE

Boston Globe, The (MA)
November 17, 2005
Author: Frank Phillips Globe Staff

A major Massachusetts-based union is calling on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval L. Patrick to withdraw his support for President Bush's nominee as US ambassador to the Netherlands, Roland Arnall, a controversial Republican fund-raiser and principal owner of a mortgage company that is under investigation in 30 states.

The National Association of Government Employees has also called on Patrick to resign as a director on the board of Arnall's firm, Ameriquest Capital Corp. The union said his backing of the nominee contradicts Patrick's campaign promise to offer a "fresh look" for state government.
"We view your backing of Mr. Arnall as just more `business as usual' and acceptance that important positions such as an ambassadorship should go to the highest bidder," David J. Holway, NAGE national president, said in a letter to Patrick this week. (Holway, you dope---please SHUT the hell UP!)

He noted Arnall's strong political financial support of Bush. Arnall and his wife, Dawn, were described by The Washington Post in January as "the single biggest source of financial support for Bush since 2002. Over the period, they gave and raised at least $12.25 million."

Patrick rejected the union's demands yesterday, saying he has committed himself to helping Arnall's company settle the investigations into Ameriquest's business practices, which critics say involved predatory lending aimed at low-income people, minorities, and the elderly. The company is in settlement talks with the investigating states.

"My commitment is to provide independent oversight that will help the company in its continuing effort to be the very best in the industry," Patrick wrote to Holway. "If keeping that commitment costs me the endorsement of NAGE, then I am prepared to live with those political consequences." (Way to go Holway... I thinks it's the NAGE membership who will be living with the consequences..)

Patrick submitted a letter last month to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee praising Arnall, telling the senators, "This is a good man." He said he disagrees with the nominee's political views but doesn't "regard political affiliation as the only possible measure of a person."

Edition: THIRD
Section: Metro/Region
Page: B8

Copyright (c) 2005 Globe Newspaper Company

Record Number: 0511170347

Wake up Mass State Employees..! Vote NO on 3

NAGE is STEALING your dues money!
Stealing it and giving it to these SEIU assholes, these Social Engineers in Washington DC who wouldn't know a Mass State Employee from a hole in the ground....

Maybe I'd think it was commendable for SEIU to be spending millions to organize janitors, and hotel housekeepers, and illegal aliens.... if they weren't spending MY DUES to do it! (My dues are suppposed to be fiancing the interests of my professional state employee bargain unit.... not the interests of private employees in other states...) Hey good luck to them, but let them raise their own dues!

You state employees get NO REPRESENTATION of your interests at the state bargaining table. Holway and his minions are only interested in stealing your dues so they get to be heroes to their SEIU masters by transferring MILLION$ of your dollars.....

Watch how quickly Dave "Judas goat" Holway sells you all down the river when the talks begin for the next contract. What will we see, another 2%?, 3%?..... how much further erosion will we see in health insurance benefits?

DID you get that full color, over-sized, glossy postcard with the generic SEIU propaganda? With the little "customized-fill-in-the-blanks" section asking you to vote for Deval & Question 3? What a joke.... your dues are paying for these generic mailers that are being sent all over the country.... don't let them fool you, they don't give a shit about state employees in Massachusetts .....

By the WAY...... please vote NO on question 3

Campaigns(Like Question 3) have nothing whatever to do with your interests and will not benefit you in any way..... this bullshit is completely beyond the scope of the Mass public employee collective bargaining law, Chapter 150E..... why the hell is NAGE spending our money on this twaddle?

We, as state employees, have absolutely no stake in whether home-based day care providers can organize unions..... they are not state employees and they never will be.....

The best I can say about Question 3 is: I don't give shit one way or the other, and the worst I can say is that NAGE/SIEU/Holway arrogance will ONCE AGAIN piss off the Legislature

..... (you don't think the legislature is going to appreciate an attempt by carpetbagger out-of-state union-shitheads to foist a change in the general laws on their constituents, do you?),
and we, the poor members, will be punished again by being screwed in the next contract!.... wake up folks, these NAGE assholes have to brought to heel.


NAGE is stealing your dues to pay for this campaign while they give you shit for service..... For God sake, don't do anything to encourage them to keep raiding our bank account!!!

VOTE NO ON Question 3.... let them raise their own money.