"What do we want? DEMANDS! When do we want 'em? NOW!"

Big Labor and its bosses are part of the 1%. Not the 99%.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44872639/ns/…

You should really lay off the drugs before posting, @1 @2 ...

Kemper's Bellevue Square has been a strong partner with the building unions. Bellevue Square is a union shop and always has been. Millions of construction dollars and many jobs (all at union wages) are created every day as tenant's come and go and build out their stores at Bellevue Square.

Lincoln Square, Bellevue Place, the Hyatt Regency, The Westin Bellevue are all Kemper Development projects that were built proudly for Kemper by union laborers making good union wages.

A small group of powerful people, public and private, has worked aggressively to steal that dream...

Holy fucking crap.

The County Executive said that?

I haven't heard a highly paid elected leader say that since...Never.

Dow Constantine moves up a notch (even if he funds charging stations...yuk).

If I were an unemployed and struggling under the weight of crushing student loan debt or medical bills, I-1125 would be pretty low on my list of concerns right now.

I like what Dow has to say when he makes his monthly visit to kuow. It's like he went into public service to serve the public or something.

Sean P. @6:

If I were an unemployed and struggling under the weight of crushing student loan debt or medical bills, I-1125 would be pretty low on my list of concerns right now.

At the state and local level, there's no fight more strongly aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement and its frustrations than defeating Tim Eyman's I-1125. Along with globalization, the primary reason so many Americans are struggling with student loan debt and medical bills is that we've become an every man for himself society that's incapable of taking collective action for the common good. We wouldn't need an Occupy Wall Street movement now if it weren't be decades of Kemper Freeman zombie economic policies where we try to spite our economic self-interest in the name of economic selfishness.

The sad reality is that the so-called 1%'s biggest enablers over the last few decades have been the so-called 99%. Too many of us would rather be poor and jobless than pay a little more for government or sacrifice a contrived libertarian vision of liberty. Or at least the Kemper Freemans of America are hoping we're too stupid to see that connection.

@1&2, agree with 3.
Yeah, you cite these two labor leaders as being among the 1%, but they may not be the same 1% destroying the country. They just fall based on their pension plan within the lable of 1%. not all 1%ers destroy, and not two of 14million union members are the same. So appreciate it if union workers are all not painted with the same brush. 1% vs 99% is a rallying cry, don't confuse the message and target goal of others please.

@1&2, agree with 3.
Yeah, you cite these two labor leaders as being among the 1%, but they may not be the same 1% destroying the country. They just fall based on their pension plan within the lable of 1%. not all 1%ers destroy, and not two of 14million union members are the same. So appreciate it if union workers are all not painted with the same brush. 1% vs 99% is a rallying cry, don't confuse the message and target goal of others please.