Apparently the far-left SEIU has our best interests in mind, who knew?
Via Yahoo! News:
Facing pressure from interest groups to pass an immigration reform bill, House Republicans planned to meet Wednesday in a closed-door meeting to hash out a way forward on the issue.
Outside, a rare coalition with groups from across the political spectrum are looking for ways to convince them to act. The heads of the conservative American Action Forum, Americans of Tax Reform and the American Conservative Union sent a joint letter to congressional leaders this week calling for passage of a comprehensive bill. Labor groups are dispatching members to congressional offices and running ads in a dozen House districts. The Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition of Christian groups are holding a gathering in Washington D.C. later this month. […]
Part of the answer, according to Eliseo Medina, Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, is warning Republicans that not supporting an immigration overhaul will hurt their party’s future.
“If Speaker Boehner cares about remaining speaker beyond 2014, he’d better start thinking about this because there are enough Latinos in Republican districts to make a difference on who retains the majority or who wins the majority in the House,” Medina said during a media conference call Tuesday when discussing outreach strategies to House members on immigration. “So it’s both a policy and political consideration that they need to be thinking about.”
The Internet has a term for this. It’s called “concern trolling,” which describes when a group on one side of an issue expresses false “concern” for the well-being of their opponents. A quick glance at SEIU’s politicaldonation history— more than $1.7 million to Democratic candidates in 2012 and just $3,750 to Republicans in 2012–might lead one to question how much the organization genuinely cares about the long-term health of the GOP.
HT: Chris Moody