mike happen tony offering a fire fame is
in the studio with us today and uh...
babygirl have yet to be here graded i'm
you know you're an attorney i'm bomb
really
carry a similar to that first
is
i think that i saw matt romney commit a
federal felony on national television
the other night
uh... he walked up to this young kitten
said if i get elected i'll give you a
job yeah isn't is it a crime to offer
any kind of compensation or any favor to
somebody or that that's going to be the
question at some point if this continues
accord is going to have to answer
with that that wasn't isolate but you
can't even we all know this story this
is there's an all-out effort to for
republican employers
to intimidate employees
but they're missing something tough here
here's what here's what i think a lot of
people miss about the story
it's not important that you get to a
criminal threshold
you don't have to
look uh... which we just had to walmart
uh... a consortium of lawyers that that
worked with me hit ball mark for someone
in a bit of a hundred and twenty million
dollars before it's all paid out
for things like that know what their
collection colors and what it what an
employer is doing to an employee
when he says if you don't vote a certain
way
then you lose your job that's the
coercion for but what they're doing is
extracting a value-added import
threatening about is a value to say dole
out go vote vote this way
it gets get there's almost an analysis
that i think that i think of the
employer like a wal-mart for example you
tell they're not telling employees
your off the clock now
i want to go outside out off of the
clock but by the way i need two hundred
boxes in the back move
after off the clock was a wal-mart was
doing that's exactly what isn't that's
exactly what they're doing
cell are thinking that i think of uh...
of an employer
who aren't it weakens yes actually in
some ways an employee not overtly maybe
they don't most
most uh... if i had sexual harassment
sexual harassment cases most of those
are not they're not over
you know they're not they're not
do this for there at the implicit there
the suggestion
and i look at your father employer
and i know that you have guys like me
and some of the best lawyers in this
country that are already looking what
does the lawsuit look like
when you bring a lawsuit in you say
for example to the coal miners this
story up in uh... the the murray energy
in ohio right with a coal miners were
told
look if you don't give to this pack
you might not have a job
right or or please show up for this
photo op uh... that's right that's right
they didn't even have to say if you
don't show up you will be fired that's
right
so jury still look
gluck everybody in some capacity has
worked in their lives everybody has
experience that idea of being under the
man's fall
so to speak
but when you put them on a jury and you
say this is what they did they told this
employee
that if you don't vote republican if you
don't vote vote with mitt romney
you might not be able to eat your
children max mara
mhm because we might take your job you
may not be able to pay pay for health
care because we might take your job how
much more drip calling in can you get so
i thought i would say that the people
i'm talking about i've tried cases with
a very similar to this
uh... they companies to pay attention
before the december do that
yeah now
bit what bennett what this is get into
is this there beyond you know my my semi
joke about that did mit romney
metafilter following a but honestly give
me a job uh... is mit romney back in
june
talking to the national association of
independent businesses i guess what
and failed
national federation of independent
business
uh... and say well here's the actual
clip this is this is mit romney
i hope you make it very clear to
mature employees
uh... what you believe is in the best
interest of of your enterprise and
therefore their job you passed along to
your employees right and uh... in an end
and then he goes on to say oh and by the
way while used to be a crime for you to
do that under
actually uh... u_s_ code for forty one
being which says about corporations are
political funds quote
it should be unlawful to make a
contribution or expenditure by utilizing
muneer anything of value secured by
physical force job discrimination
financial reprisals or the threat
of force job discrimination for refiners
reprisals to influence voters
uh... that's now also section one oh one
of the late eleven oh one of the labor
quoted quiet cody makes a crime for
c_e_o_'s division actions quote
controlling our directing or ten in the
controller direct the political
activities or affiliations of employees
end quote additional additionally uh...
labor labor law section eleven oh two
says
employers may not course employees to
adopt a particular course of political
action and then back to title to coach
after fourteen subject a one of the law
that i was reading earlier this is
uh... peace it does she know track down
and and highlighted uh... it anything of
value secured by physical force by i
actually i guess that's that's alleges
reggie yet so it's uh... this is
this is
citizens united not dell
much montana and that they might have
knocked it down out right now starting
at hot hot hot williston road
when romney says this is my opinion of
all
lawyer internet let's let's listen our
our army set area s political about your
date please
have a will you believe this past
weekend
listen i fail outlook when im when i'm
taking legal advice from somebody who
stores their money offshore legal advice
from somebody who
muscles a blind trust in a way that is
completely illegal on suspect from the
beginning the tom let me answer at this
way
in every major lawsuit that takes place
in the country you did that you tried
bringing the case has some options one
of those options is
that they can alleged what they call the
common law violation of law they can use
statutory language and they can say
listen
we're not
we're not suggesting that the the
criminal code has been violated that let
me show you what the standard is
for the criminal co not only have we
shown but not only if we arrived as
stared more
significant than that
but wait we've we've proven here by that
the preponderance of the evidence that
everything that this individual did
falls within the realm of the u_s_
here's the bottom line what the ronnie
campaign is betting
is whether this is illegal or not and
this is the same thing call rose betting
i mean there's a very very good
probability he's gonna lose in the
courts
by saying that his social welfare
nonprofit organization can hide is donor
trip is a very good chance he's going to
lose a
it'll be after the elec
braniff if he's president amanda select
you know
george herbert walker bush
won the election it into the
investigations
into their ran contra and you know
whether or not bush earlier the break-in
administration bill casey data secret
deal with the ayatollahs to keep the
hospice and everything else arises right
well the only reason i i raise this is
an odds-on bet election issues here i'm
talking about a lawyer who you has
who has thirty employees come to say
this is what happened in the do you
wanna bring a case employers doing this
need to be a very very careful s but
would be my advise yeah but apparently
they're doing it in the code brothers
uh...
some water what fifty thousand people
about this was the uh...
uh... this is pretty amazing
