OWH Opinion: Midlands Voices: Employee Free Choice Act could help improve communities

May 07, 12:55 PM CST

“The problems in the economy reach beyond layoffs and unemployment. Many jobs today lack good-quality health care and pensions. Foreclosures are at an all-time high. Productivity has increased while wages have stayed flat. CEO pay is now 350 times the wages of an average worker.”

Read full opinion written by Vic Covalt, NE Democratic Party State Chair:

Midlands Voices: Employee Free Choice Act could help improve communities

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  1. Censorship is NOT a policy that should be embraced by the Nebraska Democratic Party.
    — Brian T. Osborn    May 12, 09:35 PM CST #
  2. I had posted a couple of responses here regarding legitimate complaints with the way Sen. Nelson “represents” us. Those comments have been scrubbed along with those of M. Wayne Power who commended me for having made them.

    Evidently, dissent is no longer tolerated in the Nebraska Democratic Party, even when it is based on the publicly documented stance of the NDP State Central Committee. Once we lower ourselves to using the despicable act of censorship to keep the voice of what might be a minority opinion silenced, then we have become a party worthy of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

    I believe that M. Wayne Power and I deserve a public apology and our posts should be reinstated exactly the way they previously appeared here.

    Shameful!

    Brian T. Osborn
    — Brian T. Osborn    May 13, 01:44 AM CST #
  3. Brian, you are an embarrassment.
    — omaha blue    May 13, 11:50 AM CST #
  4. OB,

    Thanks for that cowardly pot shot from behind your well protected nom de plume.

    Protecting the rights of those that speak out on issues that aren’t accepted by a “majority” was, I thought, one of the Democratic principles that we all supported. Apparently I was wrong. It is clear that no one, not even a constitutional officer of the Nebraska Democratic Party, has the right to be the least bit critical of our party’s sole representative in Congress – not even when his argument is buttressed by a vote of the NDP State Central Committee.

    If I am an embarrassment to my party because my democratic fervor exceeds the limits some of its members would place on it, then I am ashamed of my party. If, on the other hand, I am an embarrassment only to bloggers too cowardly to use their real names, then I’m proud to be so.
    — Brian T. Osborn    May 13, 12:01 PM CST #

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