mittens tells small business bosses to tell employees how to vote

[Don Quixote]

the small business employers slate...

Mitt Romney wants your vote. And if you're a small business owner, he wants your employees' votes as well and insists that there's nothing wrong with giving them a little guidance this election cycle. On June 6, Romney led a conference call with support from the über-conservative National Federation of Independent Business and -- to cut to the chase -- urged the bosses on the call to persuade their employees to vote for him in the upcoming election.
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"I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections," said Romney in a recording obtained by In These Times. "Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well."
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Okay, Mitt. You're right. It's not technically illegal for employers to tell their employees how to vote. That doesn't mean that it's ethical or understandable or even acceptable to connect people's livelihoods with their political beliefs. There's a fine line between an employer telling an employee, "Vote Romney!" and a boss telling a subordinate, "Vote Romney, or else!" At least, in the eyes of the inevitably subordinate employees there's not.

http://news.yahoo.com/romney-told-bosses-tell-employees-whom-vote-005424348.html

 

[Dixie - In Memoriam]

Okay, Mitt. You're right. It's not technically illegal for employers to tell their employees how to vote.

This can't be stressed enough, and I hope that every small business entrepreneur in America has had this very conversation with their employees. My personal speech would start with: "Some of you in this room will be losing your job if Obama is elected!"

You want to call this unethical or whatever... FUCK YOU! It's not unethical for unions to throw membership money at Obama as fast as they can grab it up! It's not unethical for every Hollywood-produced TV show to 'liberally' interject political digs and propaganda in their scripts. It's not unethical to parade the president around on Letterman while we bury Ambassadors. It's not unethical to have the VP act like an insane Joker in a debate. It's not unethical to have fat-ass cow, Joy Bahare lecture her audience on a daily basis about the evils of Republicanism... so you people can grow the fuck up about this, and take some of what you dish out.