July 1, 2009

Dear Desert Conservative Visitor,

The union bosses are counting on their handpicked leaders — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — to deliver.

What Big Labor wants is simple but frightening: monopoly control over every public safety worker in the country.

And now with control of the White House to go along with large majorities in Congress, the union bosses believe their time has come.

It’s up to you and me to make sure they don’t get their way.

That’s why it’s vital you sign your petition to your Congressman and Senators IMMEDIATELY.

You see, Big Labor’s politicians in Washington are primed and ready to ram the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill (H.R. 413) through Congress.

In fact, the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill has already been introduced, and could come up for a vote any day now.

As you know, the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill is designed to FORCE every firefighter and police officer in the country under union boss control — and is just the first step toward forcing ALL state and local public employees under Big Labor’s thumb.

The truth is, passage of this Big Labor power grab would mean:

*** State and local governments — who are already experiencing budget shortfalls during these troubled economic times — will be forced to pay the salaries and perks of union bosses.

In the Post Office alone, taxpayers have been forced to fund over 1.75 million hours of union organizing.

*** Small communities that depend on volunteer police and firefighters for their safety will be forced to do without them.

Or communities will have to deal with mammoth tax hikes to pay for union boss-controlled public safety workers.

*** The Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill will do nothing to stop crime or make our communities safer.

On the contrary, forcing police and firefighters under the control of power-mad union bosses tends to drive many of the best men and women out of their jobs.

Union bosses have bragged that their power grab is “one of the most far reaching expansions of labor [union boss] rights Congress has considered in decades.”

And I’m afraid they are right — which is why you and I must act TODAY.

Big Labor’s dangerous scheme is designed to impose union monopoly bargaining on all state, county and local public safety workers.

That means that no matter what your state and local officials say, every police officer and firefighter in every town and city in the whole country will ultimately be handed over to union boss control.

And if your town won’t go along with that, the Federal Government will step in and turn over your first responders to Big Labor anyway.

And, of course, history shows us, police and firefighter monopoly bargaining has all too often led to strikes.

Violent. Destructive.

Bloody.

This legislation would pit honest taxpayers like you against the very people you count on to protect you.

When your police are ordered out on strike, who will defend your home and loved ones?

When union militants set up picket lines around fire stations, who will put out the fires?

That’s why it’s vital you act TODAY!

The fact is, especially during these troubled economic times, passage of the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill is the LAST thing we need.

State and local governments are already experiencing budget shortfalls.

And in places like Vallejo, California — where sweetheart contracts demanded by public employee union officials are the norm — cities have been forced into full-blown bankruptcy.

Many other cities all over the country are teetering on the brink, as well.

Quite simply, passage of the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill could be their last straw.

You see, a Maryland study conducted by the Department of Fiscal Services found that monopoly bargaining would cost the taxpayers between 1.3 and 1.4 million dollars in annual process costs for only 12 “bargaining units” of state employees.

H.R. 413 would create an almost unimaginable number of new “bargaining units” at a cost impossible to estimate.

The truth is, in places where Big Labor has control over public employees, union officials guarantee citizens pay more in taxes and get less for their tax money in return.

Union bosses insist on more government spending, block service improvements for taxpayers, and push for outrageous demands that no union boss forcefully “representing” workers in a competitive private business would dare to seek.

That is why it’s so important you sign your petition to your Congressman and Senators IMMEDIATELY.

I want to bury members of the House and Senate in an avalanche of opposition to H.R. 413.

Our plan is to rally a million or more Americans to apply so much pressure that Congress will have little choice but to strangle this monster in its crib.

But the fight begins with people like you.

Your signed petitions and most generous contribution are the key to stopping ALL Big Labor attempts to force firefighters and police officers into the fold.

Your contribution and petitions will help us:

*** Contact up to six million Americans by mail, telephone and email asking them to sign petitions to their Congressmen and Senators — just like the one under the hyperlink;

*** Give personal briefings for hundreds of friendly editors, columnists and talk-radio hosts to generate media attention — especially in key swing districts;

*** Prepare and run, if we can afford it, radio, newspaper and even TV advertising in target states and districts;

*** Deliver your petitions to your Congressman and Senators to show just how strongly the American people oppose the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill.

As I’ve already told you, H.R. 413 clearly is gaining steam and could come up for a vote any day now.

That’s why it’s vital you sign your petition to your Congressman and Senators IMMEDIATELY.

And along with your petition, I must ask you to make a most generous contribution of $25, $50, $100 or $250 today.

The program to kill H.R. 413 won’t be cheap.

Time is so short, and the battle so tough, so please consider a contribution of $250 if you can.

Lee, that’s a lot of money, I know. But please understand this battle is crucial.

If you cannot afford $250 right now, please dig deep to contribute $100 or $50 — or whatever you can afford TODAY!

Sincerely,

Mark Mix
President

P.S. The Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill is rapidly gaining steam. If passed, this dangerous bill would force America’s public safety workers under union boss control.

That’s why it’s vital that you sign your petition to your Congressman and Senators TODAY.