Wait… Tom Leppert courted the SEIU and ACORN?
Former Dallas Mayor, Tom Leppert, was caught in unwanted crossfire when a candidate running for his old position brought up Leppert’s past support for the Service Employees International Union(SEIU). What makes this so damaging is that no Republican would be caught dead supporting or even talking to this union but this US Senate hopeful did just that. He also aligned himself with ACORN but more on that later. If you don’t know much about the ultra left SEIU they support Pres. Obama, eliminating the secret ballot in union votes, Obamacare, and not to mention they have a history of voter intimidation. Leppert’s people immediately sought to put out this fire and released a statement to the DMN, who reported on this story, saying:
“Tom would not sign anything supporting forced collective bargaining for all workers. He believes workers have a right to join a union if they choose, but more importantly, Tom has actively campaigned for workers’ essential right to choose not to join a union if they don’t want to by expanding Right to Work,” said spokesman Shawn McCoy.
However, it soon came to light that Leppert actively sought their support. Uh oh. The SEIU released documents of Leppert meeting with their members and a letter he sent to a state senator endorsing a bill that would allow Dallas employees to unionize. Uh oh again.
However, the story doesn’t stop there.
Tom Leppert also seemed to have some affection for a highly funded liberal activist organization called ACORN. You might know them best for their blatant attempts of voter fraud by registering voters like Mickey Mouse, a 7 year old girl, and one man who admitted registering to vote over 70 times in exchange for cigarettes and cash. And if that doesn’t ring a bell, ACORN was involved in an undercover sting operation in which a fake pimp and prostitute received advice from ACORN on how to cheat on their taxes and find loop holes in order to bring underage girls into America to work at a brothel.
Although, the sting operation happened two years after Leppert sought their support, in politics, the connection to the organization still exist. Honestly, that is just bad luck. However, the history of voter fraud, liberal activism, and outlandish protest is at the core of ACORN and Tom Leppert must have known exactly what the organization represented. I can’t imagine why he has sought the support of these two organizations since they have such a shady and checkered past. This raises a couple of important questions.
1) Why did Mayor Leppert seek the support of ACORN and SEIU?
2) If Mayor Leppert is a conservative why would he sign liberal ACORN pledges on immigration, affordable housing, and a host of other issues?
It will be very interesting to see how Tom Leppert responds to his past support of ACORN.
Amazing to me that people are jumping all over issues of who supported who rather than the fact that Leppert was a great Mayor who got the Dallas economy on the right track and who has been a great leader.
I guess when you come out of the gate as strongly as he has in this Senate race, you can expect to find people coming up with all sorts of reasons why you can’t win.
1@AFowler giving credit to Leppert for the success of Dallas is akin to giving Obama credit for Texas. Dallas didn’t prosper under Leppert. We now have a city owned hotel that should be private sector. We have higher taxes. We have increased debt. We had a mayor suck up to Obama to get federal stimulas funds. We had a mayor who cared more about the LGBT community than for family values. In essence we had a liberal and not a conservative. He is now seeking support from a consistency he thumbed his nose when he ran to get elected Mayor. He maybe conservative in Los Angeles but not in Texas.
2@AFowler,
Republicans are looking for someone who has fought and stood for conservative principles while in office and Leppert clearly has not done that. Conservative and Get it Right are the grassroot supporters that Leppert will need to win over and you can see that he has not done that.
3And therein lies the problem with you Leppert apologists. We don’t care if you think he was a great Mayor of Dallas – we care about having a Senate candidate who is verfiably committed and unwavering in conservative principles.
Leppert has proven over and over again – he has no principles. The man is a straight political hack who will sell us out the first chance he gets. Raised taxes in Dallas – raised debt in Dallas – donated to Ron Kirk – and courted SEIU and ACORN.
There are good, conservative candidates in this race – Leppert isn’t one fo them.
4I’m all for holding Tom Leppert to task for his amazing (and unlikely) transformation into the second coming of Ronald Reagan. Indeed, I’ve done more than my share. But am I missing something, or have you not actually provided linking evidence that “Tom Leppert also seemed to have some affection for a highly funded liberal activist organization called ACORN,” or that “Leppert sought their support?” The SEIU charges seem pretty well documented, but I’m not seeing a link showing that Leppert sought ACORN’s endorsement, and I am quite interested in seeing that…
5@Lawrence Person,
You ask and you shall receive…. on Wednesday.
6Could you be hinting at this?
7Tom Leppert is responsible for Safe Lite – ticket camera’s – everyone hates them – around the nation – these camera’s were kick out of Arizona but it took repeated efforts from the people to do it – I spoke to Tom here in Waxahachie Texas at the convetion center – and he’s all for Camera’s and using technology even if it means sticking it up our asses – its the patriot bullshit – I told him that the CIA is putting camera’s and recording devices in everything we have in order to spy on every American out their – he through his hands up in the air as to act like I was crazy – and then I looked at him and said “you don’t believe this”? and then he shut down – he said we do agree on alot of things don’t we – Yes the speech sounds great but the proof is in the pudding – he says that he created jobs – a 20% increase in the police force and a 20% increase in civilian jobs – and then I asked him if he believed in a smaller Government and he said yes – All I have to say is get real!
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