The consequences of losing your county government to anti-government maga people is that, one: they don’t like or want unions in government jobs; they want to control all of the county jobs, such as the elections department, so they can get their hands on your ballots. They want to control the county school boards and the county school superintendent’s office and dedicate what is taught. They also want to control of the Shasta County District Attorney’s office and the Health Department.
How can this be done? One way is just by buying the County supervisors with lots of money from outside our county.
In Shasta County’s case, it was and is out of state money, which supported a recall of three supervisors, which were all Republicans members, but were not maga trump people. Two of these supervisors were not recalled, but have vowed not to run again and one was recalled, giving the maga supervisors a majority vote of three to two vote to fire the County’s Health Officer, and they will not quit with that win. They want to destroy Shasta County’s government.
Our Five Counties Council unions fought this with people and money in supporting the supervisors who were being recalled, but lost because there wasn’t enough money to counter the unlimited money coming in from outside the County.
This is a hard thing for union labor people to use their money to try to defend Republicans, but the alternative left the Five Counties Council no choice, unfortunately we lost, but all county workers’ union benefits are in danger as a result of this loss. I wonder how many of these workers realize that or voted against their own self-interest?
All of this is occurring in our Northern California County right now and I am sure the same thing is happening in other small counties across the USA. So, the real fight is who will control the ballot boxes and voting machines for those who do will win through corruption.
So, unions members and all working people must get out and vote to stop this from happening. The anti-worker GOP maga led assault is on the working-class people, not just to control the government. If they, the gop maga people, are counting the votes, we lose.
Vet the candidates you want to vote for. Several are saying they’re sponsored by the Liberty committee, that is a tell that they are with the maga-gop group. One Cottonwood candidate, who is running as a Liberty candidate, says in one of his television advertisements that he will not raises our taxes. He’s either ignorant or is hoping you are.
Yes, they are coming for us. Workers need to have one another’s backs because no one else will. Neither the broader labor movement nor the Democratic party are prepared to meet the urgency of this moment. So it’s going to fall upon the rest of us to mount a real resistance against Trump’s authoritarian takeover. We’re going to have to get our hands dirty. I don’t care if you have a good, well-paying union job and you are in the middle class now—if you see a worker being dragged out of his workplace regardless of how skilled the job and potentially taken to another country, you should be ready to be there for that worker. When I.C.E. shows up, gather around and shame them into leaving. It has worked in other places. America is sleep walking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anyone out there who is a member of a labor union that is safe—at this point— and doesn’t think this applies to them. Understand that they just haven’t gotten to you yet. They’re coming for all of us. There are ...
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