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Video: Andy Stern’s SEIU farewell – “I love you all”

By Michelle Malkin • April 14, 2010 07:03 PM

Here’s the farewell message and video now being disseminated by SEIU thug-in-chief Andy Stern in advance of his official announcement tomorrow (h/t Vermontaigne). Behind that cheesy, phony smile, as I reported the other day when the resignation news leaked, there’s something really smelly going on.

Watch:

Noteworthy in this farewell message: The focus on pushing illegal alien shamnesty.

Here’s the text of the e-mail message Stern has sent to his minions:

There’s a time to learn, a time to lead, and then there’s a time to leave.

And shortly, it will be my time to retire… and end my SEIU journey.

I just recorded a video sharing my thanks and appreciation that I’d love for you to watch.

You can watch it at http://action.seiu.org/andymessage

My time at SEIU has always been about the members.

Members like Martina Casey, one of 150,000 child care providers who found a voice at SEIU.

Rosa Ayala, an immigrant janitor, and others around the country helped found SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign.

Verdia Daniels, a minimum wage home care worker, who for ten years organized 74,000 co-workers and gave birth to a movement now 400,000 home care workers strong.

Together, we’ve organized over 1.2 million new members into our SEIU family since I became president in 1996. SEIU is now the largest union in North America and fastest growing worldwide.

We founded Americans for Health Care in 2002 and realized our goal when historic health care legislation passed earlier this year.

We elected Barack Obama – a great president – and grew to be the largest grassroots political army fighting for change in America.

And the union will continue to fight for immigration, financial and labor law reform long after I am gone.

…Thank you – my union family – who have shown me how to lead and stand up for change.

I love you all,

Andy

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#1

On April 14th, 2010 at 7:06 pm, Khyris said:

My spidey-sense is tingling.. the One is getting ready to nominate him to something major. Probably not SCOTUS… probably… right? Guys?
#2

On April 14th, 2010 at 7:06 pm, JusDreamin said:

I need a shower.
#3

On April 14th, 2010 at 7:13 pm, 24Klady said:

Smelly – like a dead fish. How utterly stupid can union members be? The more you add to the member role count and it’s regulations, the less chance you have of working. Rather than employing 2-4 workers, if you’re a mom-pop motel/restaurant, window cleaning or landscaping business, you’ll find you can work yourself to death and not have to deal with them – or simply scale down your business. It’s lose/lose for everybody.

Even if all of them unionized tomorrow, there is a steady flow of illegals to work under the table for cash and life is fine. This latest effort to amnesty the last 20 million is nothing but encouragement.
#4

On April 14th, 2010 at 7:15 pm, et said:

Did Biden put his foot in his mouth once too often?
#5

On April 14th, 2010 at 7:17 pm, Republicanvet said:

PLTDHYOTWO – HARD!

Translation, Please Let….you know the rest.
#6

On April 14th, 2010 at 7:44 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

Agent Smith: I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can’t stand it any longer. It’s the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I’ve somehow been infected by it.
#7

On April 14th, 2010 at 7:52 pm, happyscrapper said:

You can be sure this slug will show up somewhere in Obama’s inner circle. He is so corrupt and sleazy, he will fit right in with the rest of them. Gag. Spit.
#8

On April 14th, 2010 at 7:56 pm, d1carter said:

I couldn’t make it through that vid. “Big” things are in this guy’s future….shudder.
#9

On April 14th, 2010 at 8:04 pm, Hangfire said:

He’s a used Yugo salesman.
#10

On April 14th, 2010 at 8:07 pm, tbear44 said:

I love you all,

Andy

The feeling is NOT mutual.
#11

On April 14th, 2010 at 8:26 pm, Doug Powers said:

We’re either looking at the next Supreme Court nominee, or “Labor Union Czar”…
#12

On April 14th, 2010 at 8:32 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

Watching and listening to this guy saying things like “I love you all!” is like listening to Morbo charming his wife with “I will destroy you!”.
#13

On April 14th, 2010 at 8:35 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

Morbo is my favorite alien newscaster. He used to open newscasts with his signature: “Pathetic humans!” Hard not to love a guy like that.
#14

On April 14th, 2010 at 9:00 pm, mattm said:

I couldn’t watch the whole thing. So sleazy. And to all the gullible union folks, Andy loved you all, all your money more specifically for his 200K+ salary and benefits.

Besides that he couldn’t care leas about you. All you were was a piggy bank he could forcefully raid.
#15

On April 14th, 2010 at 9:06 pm, AlohaGuy said:

Dear Union Members,

If all those illegals weren’t here, wouldn’t your wages go up?
#16

On April 14th, 2010 at 9:55 pm, 24Klady said:

AlohaGuy
Exactamundo. The union member of today is not that of 40 years ago. They joined unions then for job safety issues and some kind of benefits, up to and including burial policies.

Today’s members, I don’t have a clue and they don’t either. Only the union bosses know and that’s a carefully guarded secret. Absolutely nothing in it for the protection of the worker. Union bosses live in McD mansions, workers live in rapidly changing neighborhoods.
#17

On April 14th, 2010 at 9:59 pm, Lindsay said:

This is one for the vomitorium.
#18

On April 14th, 2010 at 10:24 pm, MarcoPolo said:

Read on another blog that he might be planning a run for the seat that John Edwards left, now occupied by the GOP and up for reelection in 2012.
#19

On April 14th, 2010 at 10:26 pm, jangar said:

Is Obama going to do a takeover of the SEIU now?

Shocker!
#20

On April 14th, 2010 at 10:35 pm, vickisoup said:

He does love us all…in the same way that Phillip Garrido “loves” Jaycee Dugard. Twisted, sick, disgusting…like that.
#21

On April 14th, 2010 at 10:37 pm, jangar said:

happyscrapper said:

You can be sure this slug will show up somewhere in Obama’s inner circle.

Uh, that would be center circle…also known as sphincter.
#22

On April 14th, 2010 at 10:49 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

Purge? Bye bye Andy, we hope to see you on trial for sedition soon. May it be for all traitors.
#23

On April 15th, 2010 at 12:37 am, rightwingrocker said:

None of this passes the smell test.

These loser leftists are leaving DC in droves.

Be prepared to fight. This is indicative not of our imminent victory, but of their last-ditch effort to force America into submission.

This is all part of some diabolical strategy. Mark my words.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#24

On April 15th, 2010 at 8:33 am, TigerLady said:

I’ve informed you to leave,
cause I can’t stand to hear you breathe

there’s your shoes and there’s the door
please don’t come here anymore—BNL
#25

On April 15th, 2010 at 9:31 am, Misscheryl said:

For cryin’ out loud! I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
#26

On April 15th, 2010 at 9:38 am, RedDog said:

Bring it Leninists. America is rising to the occasion. “The time for honoring yourself is over.”
#27

On April 15th, 2010 at 10:23 am, Flyoverman said:

AMF
#28

On April 15th, 2010 at 12:01 pm, Little Ma said:

Three words: Soros Soros Soros
#29

On April 15th, 2010 at 1:49 pm, RedDog said:

Hey. Andy looks like Soupy Sales. Apologies to Soupy.
#30

On April 15th, 2010 at 4:26 pm, Beukeboom said:

Stern…just go away.