I want heads on pikes, and I mean it:
Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and business officials to organize opposition to the U.S. labor community’s top legislative priority.
Participants on the October 17 call — including at least one representative from another bailout recipient, AIG — were urged to persuade their clients to send “large contributions” to groups working against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), as well as to vulnerable Senate Republicans, who could help block passage of the bill.
And why, you might ask, have I posted a picture of an asshole in a Home Depot smock?
Bernie Marcus, the charismatic co-founder of Home Depot, led the call along with Rick Berman, an aggressive EFCA opponent and founder of the Center for Union Facts. Over the course of an hour, the two framed the legislation as an existential threat to American capitalism, or worse.
“This is the demise of a civilization,” said Marcus. “This is how a civilization disappears. I am sitting here as an elder statesman and I’m watching this happen and I don’t believe it.”
Elder statesman? Who does this shitbag think he is?
Donations of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars were needed, it was argued, to prevent America from turning “into France.”
“If a retailer has not gotten involved in this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to [former Sen.] Norm Coleman and all these other guys, they should be shot. They should be thrown out their goddamn jobs,” Marcus declared.
I know who should be thrown out of his goddamn job, and it’s not a CEO who refused to send Norm Coleman money.
“This bill may be one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life,” he said, explaining that he could have been on “a 350-foot boat out in the Mediterranean,” but felt it was more important to engage on this fight. “It is incredible to me that anybody could have the chutzpah to try and pass this bill in this election year, especially when we have an economy that is a disaster, a total absolute disaster.”
Don’t you hate it when that happens?
This fucker needs to be sent a message, as does BoA. And call your senator - they need to stop this shit.
Sitt'un on the corporate ladder sure beats climbing it.
Posted by: mandt | January 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM
How much do you want to bet that if this guy saw any Home Depot employee sitting on a ladder like that during store hours, he'd have the employee fired on the spot.
Posted by: RobW | February 01, 2009 at 10:03 PM