The Democratic Party: A History of Anarchy - Part 3 - Page 2 of 2

Organizing in 1903 under Cornelius Shea, the Teamsters would grow into one of the most powerful unions in the country. Shea’s use of strikes in Chicago helped the union to grow but his personal corruption would almost destroy it before he had been ousted as union president in 1907. Once expelled, Shea became one of Al Capone’s enforcers, specializing in planting bombs to kill and intimidate people, head an extortion ring, and stab his mistress 27 times.

His successor, Daniel J Tobin, would lead the Teamsters from 1907 until 1952. He was closely aligned with FDR and even though he himself was never accused of criminal activities, he most certainly was aware of the strong Teamster ties with the mob in Kansas City, NYC and Chicago. Five of the next six Teamster Presidents would all be convicted of major crimes with the one standout, Frank Fitzsimons, who died before being investigated. All had ties with the mob, including providing loans from union member’s pensions plans to fund hotels in Las Vegas. The Teamsters ties with organized crime and internal corruption are rampant even today and numerous Teamster pension plans are nearly bankrupt because of mismanagement.

Even though Tobin was anti-communist, the most important strike for the Teamsters was orchestrated by the members of the Minneapolis Teamsters Local 574 which was run by members of the Trotskyist Communist Party. The violent 1934 strike would run on and off for months, resulting in four deaths and wounding dozens. After the successful strike was over, the Trotskyist led local would organize some 250,000 Midwest truckers, becoming the Central Conference of Teamsters.

The Teamsters Local 574 strike was used by FDR to help pass the pro-union National Labor Relations Act, or the “Wagner Act.” Union membership would reach its peak after the “Wagner Act” was passed and created close ties between Northern Democrats and the labor unions.

In, 1986, a conflagration burned through the DuPont Plaza Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico leaving 97 dead and 140 injured. Within weeks, three Teamster Union members were arrested for starting the fire in a pile of furniture stored in the ballroom. On the day of the fire, the hotel had offered the Teamsters employees a new contract which the union members rejected and then voted to go out on strike. The arsonists were each sentenced to 99 years in prison for setting the second most deadly fire in U.S. history.

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Under Ron Carey, Teamster President from 1991 – 1998, the Teamsters became involved in several money laundering schemes with the Clinton Whitehouse, Carey’s plea bargain with the Department of Justice acquitted him of perjury charges but barred him from re-election. Carey’s political director William Hamilton, Jr. would eventually be convicted of misappropriating $885,000 in Teamsters treasury funds and giving them to liberal groups.

Union membership in the private sector has declined from 26 percent in 1979 to today’s 10.7 while union membership in the public sector has actually increased. The decline of union membership along with a change in their long term strategies has caused the Democratic Party to slowly abandon the once mighty alliance they had the craft unions.

In order to uncover fraud and embezzlement committed by union officials, President George Bush Jr encouraged Congress to pass the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). The LMRDA reforms had revealed over $93 million in stolen union member dues during Bush’s administration. One of President Obama’s first acts was to reverse those reforms as a “thank you” for union money for his election campaign, displaying once again, how little the rank and file manufacturing union member means to the Democrats.

By failing to pass the extreme “Employee Free Choice Act,” or rein in the Right to Work Laws established under the Taft-Hartley Act when they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House, the Democratic Party has shown how little they value the craft unions. In fact, it was Democrat Bill Clinton that hastened the demise of U.S. manufacturing by signing NAFTA. While the union leadership has remained DemocraticParty lapdogs, many union members supported Donald Trump in 2016. This is because the Democrats have sacrificed union jobs on the altar of environmentalism and unlimited immigration.

“As the number of legal Hispanics increases, the number of Democratic votes increases as well” Unnamed Democratic “insiders” -National Journal Insiders Poll, April 14, 2007

The disastrous Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965 was championed by the three Kennedy brothers, John, Robert and Edward and it can be said to be the real Kennedy legacy. This Act ended the national origins quota system began under the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 which had installed racial quotas. The Hart-Celler Act doubled the immigration cap to 170,000 people from the eastern hemisphere and 120,000 people from the western hemisphere. The increase in immigration has not proven to be as problematic as the “unintended” consequence of chain migration. Chain Migration allows a US resident to bring family members from foreign countries, who in turn can bring others, none of which are counted towards the immigrant cap.

Whether the Democrats foresaw the demographic transformation of the country produced by the Hart-Celler Act or not, embracing that change has become a winning policy for them. In 1965, just four percent of the US population was foreign-born; by 2015 it stands at eighteen percent. Seven out of eight immigrants were from Europe in 1960, today, nine out of ten are from Latin America and Asia, with the majority of them being Asian. By 2045, the US Census Bureau projects that whites will become a minority of the US population.

Four US states along with the District of Columbia, are now minority-majority, they are California, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Texas. Since the majority of these immigrants come from socialist nations, they notice little change when they vote for the Democrats which have turned California into a one-party state. There is not a single Republican elected to a state office today. Immigration has not only allowed the Democrats to seize control over California, but they have also increased the number of seats California has in the U.S. Congress. For every 770,000 people in a sanctuary city or a state, the Democrats will take a Congressional seat from a less populated and generally more conservative state. Unless the immigration policy is immediately changed, the United States will become a one-party nation.

The prospect of the immigration policy actually changing, however, is not very likely as numerous “republican” leaders, lawmakers and “right” leaning think-tanks/lobbying groups such the Brookings Institute and the US Chamber of Commerce all hold pro-immigration views. This at a time when the Democratic Party has been pushing through a program to fundamentally and permanently change the US into a socialist nation and they have been open about it for years:

“Top Democratic leaders and activists see Hispanic migration as a long-term opportunity for the party. The arrival of additional immigrant workers is “bad for blue-collars,” but immigrants can help elect Democratic majorities, and if [a Democratic Congress] were to significantly strengthen unions, then you would offset the negative effect on the income of workers.”

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told National Journal in 2006:

“To get a citizenship bill through Congress, President Bush and the Democrats probably need to convert a large bloc of anti-immigration Republican members, perhaps 40 in the House and 20 in the Senate. Somehow, we have to convince them that voting for comprehensive reform does not amount to ‘enfranchising their defeat. Our problem, is that we are hoping that the legislation will build the Democratic electorate.”

Unnamed Democratic Lawmaker; “Border Politics,” National Journal, Feb. 10, 2007

“So I think there’s two things that matter for the progressive community.”

“Number one, if we are to expand this electorate to win, the progressive community needs to solidly be on the side of immigrants, that we’ll expand and solidify the progressive coalition for the future…” When you are in the middle of a fight for your life you will remember who was there with you. And immigrants count on progressives to be able to do that.”

“Number two: “We reform the immigration laws; it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters”. Can you imagine if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three? If we have eight million new voters who care about …… and will be voting. We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle.”

SEIU International Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina, 2009

“I am not going to Pennsylvania to recruit back the Trump voters … I am going to Pennsylvania to create new voters.” U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) When asked why he was rallying Hispanic voters with an initial a focus on Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, with a large Puerto Rican population. 6/24/18

“If @realDonaldTrump declares a “national emergency” to pay for his border wall, we’ll fight him in Congress, in the courts, and in the streets.”

— Mike Levin (@MikeLevinCA) January 10, 2019

It is clear that the Democrats are not in an all-out war with President Trump over the border wall for their love of America, they are doing it for the same reason Thomas Jefferson may have been willing to spill blood over the 1800 election; the lust for power.

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Steve Neill became active in the local Republican Party and is a current member of the City of Spokane Valley Planning Commission. He was selected to be on the 2008 and 2012 Republican Party Platform, became the Chair of the 2010 Platform Committee and a State Platform Delegate in the same year. He has had numerous letters to the editors, has been published in local newsletters and compendiums. He has been a speaker at workshops, organizational meetings, and on radio, programs giving lectures on effective forms of communications.

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