Comments on: SEIU to Washington legislators: raise taxes or we’ll keep suing you

By: a_random_guy

a_random_guy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:54:46 +0000

“…a federal judge said…” Of course, there is no federal issue here – if the state has any guts, it will declare the ruling void for lack of jurisdiction.

By: John David Galt

John David Galt — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:09:43 +0000

It would be nice if our courts could declare the SEIU a vexatious litigant.

By: gitarcarver

gitarcarver — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:17:42 +0000

Anthony,

From the article:

….judge overruled state plans to limit Medicaid clients’ nonemergency visits to emergency rooms…

……. a federal judge said the state could not kick 11,000 people off a subsidized insurance program because of their immigration status…..

…… SEIU sued the state after the Legislature cut nonmedical assistance to disabled and elderly people on Medicaid by 10 percent…..

Sorry, but I fail to see any “pre-existing contractual obligations” in any of those suits. What it sounds more like is “we demand our space at the trough, even if the trough is empty or bankrupt.”

By: Anthony Gibbs

Anthony Gibbs — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:15:40 +0000

Could it be that they are suing because the state is trying to cut pre-existing contractual obligations?

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:56 +0000

I’m feeling nostalgic… I read this and think ‘tar & feathers’, a gentler response than ‘rope & tree branch’. But thieves are thieves, even when dressed in purple.

By: doug

doug — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:26:37 +0000

when the recall against the gov. of Wisconsin fails, this will be the next step.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:22:11 +0000

I wonder, can Washington voters start a class-action against the SEIU?

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:41:45 +0000

Let’s tax unions!

Bob

By: Jason Barney

Jason Barney — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:57:04 +0000

Adam Glickman of SEIU is a chump of a mouthpiece for the union. He claims the state is “violating people’s rights” by failing to raise taxes to provide free or lower cost benefits to disadvantaged groups. As sympathetic as those causes may be it’s not a “right” to compel other taxpayers to provide those benefits.

And the classic quote, “Everyone who gets cut off benefits is going to sue…What we’re doing in the budget now is like full employment for lawyers.”–Chairman Ross Hunter, D-Medina.

Washington voters have clearly mandated in the recent few elections they want smaller, more efficient government. That means cuts. If you litigate that issue, you are perverting the voters will and are doing so in your own self-interest.