Video: Union workers admits being paid by Coakley camp…but he’ll vote for Brown

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 12, 2010 05:13 PM

I printed an e-mail from a reader I received yesterday about union workers with Coakley signs standing outside the UMass debate venue. The e-mail reported: ” While speaking with one of the union guys holding the Coakley sign, he admitted that his union was paying him $50 to stand and hold the sign. I was blown away, I always thought that these guys were out in the cold like us, doing what we thought was the right thing to do, not that they were actually being paid a fee to do it. The best part was when he admitted that although he was there because he needed the money, he was voting for Scott!!”

Now, there’s video. The union guy is wearing a Sheet Metal Workers shirt from Local 17. Love how he says, “Shhhh:”

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  1. #1
    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:19 pm, vickisoup said:

    Uh oh….’hope he doesn’t end up sleeping with the fishes after being exposed!
    :shock:

  2. #2
    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:22 pm, d1carter said:

    Take her money and vote for Brown…now that is capitalism.

  3. #3
    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:27 pm, Al in St. Lou said:

    Fine with me if they get paid to hold signs for Coakley but tell everyone they know they’re voting for Brown—so long as they really do!

  4. #4
    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:29 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Proclaim something and then do something else for money?

    He could be the next Democrat Senator from Nebraska.

  5. #5
    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:32 pm, ThackerAgency said:

    wow. I have no idea why people bother voting. It’s so corrupt that no vote really matters. This country isn’t great because of democracy, it is great in spite of it.

    No matter how the ‘leaders’ are determined, any form of government leads itself to corruption. The bigger the government, the bigger the corruption.

    It’s just sad. There’s no point voting because of crap like this. Why not just pay them 50 bucks to vote for them?

  6. #6
    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:35 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Let’s see…sheet metal union, could use the jobs created when the Republicans get drilling in ANWR started, takes union money to picket for democrat, votes for Republican because the economy will recover.

    The democrats will just cry that he’s a plant and not really a true union worker. Except that he knows where his bread is buttered, so to speak…

  7. #7
    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:49 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Paid to hold a sign.
    But, it’s TEA Partiers that are ‘astro-turf’.
    Got it.

  8. #8
    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:51 pm, walterc said:

    This guy will be unemployed before the sun comes up. Or possibly missing or found having “committed suicide” for some reason or other.

    Either way, he’s no longer a Union Man.

  9. #9
    On January 12th, 2010 at 6:38 pm, Al in St. Lou said:

    On January 12th, 2010 at 5:49 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Paid to hold a sign.
    But, it’s TEA Partiers that are ‘astro-turf’.
    Got it.

    Yep! It makes me sick every time I see that clip of Pelosi calling people at Tea Parties “astroturf” when the Dems are the real astroturfers. Somebody posted a comparison of the signs that left-wingers bring (all professionally printed) vs. right-wingers (all home-made). That’s enough to tell what’s going on, but the lame-stream media will NEVER mention it.

  10. #10
    On January 12th, 2010 at 7:56 pm, cicerokid said:

    Fifty bucks! Crikey. Pint of corn likker still buys a vote in Kentucky.

  11. #11
    On January 12th, 2010 at 8:48 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Now, there’s video. The union guy is wearing a Sheet Metal Workers shirt from Local 17. Love how he says, “Shhhh:”

    Wait’ll his shop steward gets a hold of his ear!

  12. #12
    On January 13th, 2010 at 11:11 am, srhoades said:

    That’s hilarious.

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