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Rep. Grayson Calls Labor Unions Strongest Force for 'Good Government'
(CNSNews.com) -- Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) said Tuesday that labor unions were the strongest force for "good government" in the United States.Grayson was appearing on a live webcast with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka to promote a new website (www.paywatch.org) that publicizes executive pay for the nation's largest companies. Both said they wanted to bring to light large corporate paychecks to rally support for financial regulatory reform bills being considered on Capitol Hill, where Grayson said he saw bank lobbyists working their influence on members of both parties to elicit favorable outcomes. Explaining that he believed those activities were unethical, Grayson said, "And it's a shame, you know? I try to live my life as if somebody upstairs were watching over me all the time and could see everything that I'm doing. And I wonder how their constituents would feel knowing that they cater to these lobbyists the way that they do--both Democrats and Republicans." Although he inferred that he tries to behave as if a higher being were keeping a close eye on him, Grayson is no stranger to intemperance. Most recently, he burst in on a meeting of the Orange County Republican Party that they were conducting at a Perkins Family Restaurant. The group reportedly admonished him for treating his constituents that way, and Tom Tillison of the Orlando Tea Party asked him, "Don't you feel that you at least owe them an explanation for your recent votes?" Grayson reportedly responded, "I don't owe them anything. They're trying to defeat me." The congressman also caught flak last September during debate on the original House version of the health care reform bill, when he accused Republicans of having no health care plan and wanting people to "die quickly." Posted by: Fred 2010-04-16 |
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