my fellow Nebraskan Omaha Steve discovers it didn't matter

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1257069

Oh my.

Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Wed Jun-08-11 04:24 PM
Original message

My post # 29,000
   
Dear friends,

I wish I had something better to tell you all today. I did not win the executive board election to be the next Vice President of my local union. I feel I was by far the most qualified candidate. Apparently that didn't matter. I'm taking some time away from labor, politics, and the DU. I don't know how long it will take to recharge my batteries.

Understand I have always loved the DU and pretty much being the person that speaks for labor on the DU. This just hurts so much.

Warmest regards,

Omaha Steve

[Karin]

Oh dear, that's too bad.  He seems very sad.  But, he has to take time off of DU to recharge his batteries?  Is posting at the DUmp an exhausting activity, that requires a full night's sleep and a big breakfast? 

[franksolich]

Oh dear, that's too bad.  He seems very sad.  But, he has to take time off of DU to recharge his batteries?  Is posting at the DUmp an exhausting activity, that requires a full night's sleep and a big breakfast? 

You know, madam, I read that, and thought, "Come on, Steve, be a man."

It's not as if nobody else has ever lost something.  I mean, I know people who worked very hard to get less, and still failed.

[thundley4]

I did not win the executive board election to be the next Vice President of my local union. I feel I was by far the most qualified candidate. Apparently that didn't matter.

They couldn't see the greatness that was apparent to OS and only OS, so OS is going to sulk in the corner for awhile.

[Rebel]

I wish I had something better to tell you all today. I did not win the executive board election to be the next Vice President of my local union. I feel I was by far the most qualified candidate. Apparently that didn't matter.

Sounds familiar.

[USA4ME]

Hey Omaha Steve, just remember some of the voting members probably said things to their fellow members about you like "I ain't voting for that idiot!"  Just keep that in mind while you're away trying to recover.

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[tanstaafl]

Hey Omaha Steve, just remember some of the voting members probably said things to their fellow members about you like "I ain't voting for that idiot!"  Just keep that in mind while you're away trying to recover.

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Yeah, and he should think about this:

The position was for entry onto the executive board, voted on by only the current executive board. Membership on this board is like an exclusive club. It takes alot of schmoozing and payoff cash and promises to gain entry. Being that this is thought to be the Omaha Local for Government, county and municipal employees, the salary for the Local VP position is minimally low six figures and proximity to the elected city officials and the chance for political intrigue on a small, but lucrative, scale (Blue city in Red county and State). Plus an added bonus for OS to not have go in to the WWTP facility to work any more.

I suppose that the rest of the executive board did the math, figured that OS was a trifle too wishy-washy, decided to split the unexpired VP salary amongst themselves for the remainder of the term and let the position be filled in the normal course of executive office election cycle where OS would have to run the gauntlet of firebombing his porch, defusing bombs on his vehicle and suffering threats to his family. Just like a real union does it.

[Skul]

Drama queen looking for sympathy.
He'll be back this weekend.

[GOBUCKS]

I suppose that the rest of the executive board did the math, figured that OS was a trifle too wishy-washy, decided to split the unexpired VP salary amongst themselves for the remainder of the term and let the position be filled in the normal course of executive office election cycle where OS would have to run the gauntlet of firebombing his porch, defusing bombs on his vehicle and suffering threats to his family. Just like a real union does it.

Well, remember this is an AFSCME local. If they had an actual election for local union officers, the campaign would be as you describe, as explosive as coach cooking with gas. The winner is guaranteed a highly lucrative income, with most of it unreported and untaxed. He will be required to do little or no work, and will be able to provide similar employment to his relatives and others who befriend him. All this will be secure until he either retires or is vaporized by a car bomb.

But it's far more likely that this will just become another union office filled by a non-person, with its salary still being paid by the members, divided among the three or four hoodlums who run the local.

I'm sure DUmmy Omaha Steve is weeping yet again (this calls for his picture with the ditch witch), but when it comes to union politics he's as helpless as stevenumbers in a love triangle.

[BannedFromDU]

I'd be disappointed if I got left off the union's executive graft gravy train, too.

[Karin]

No kidding!  Money for nothing, chicks for free. 

[Ballygrl]

He's back to posting:

Omaha Steve  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-08-11 10:34 PM
Response to Original message
12. Thanks to all for public & private replies
   
I've started to recover.

OS

[GOBUCKS]

OS is the first DUmmy to enter politics since that nut in upstate New York, a frequent poster in the mental health forum, who decided to run for democrat committeeman or something like that. He was really excited about the decision, and shared with the DUmp how he had mapped out his political career, step-by-step, from precinct committeeman, to city hall, to Albany, to Washington, and, if the nation needed him, the White House.

It was a dream as audacious and brilliant as a Wisconsin pie shop. Alas, the plan was derailed when he could not get enough signatures on his petition for committeeman.

[BattleHymn]

He's back to posting:

Six hours.  That was a fast recovery.

Maybe he is taking the same herbal pill Pam used to recover her cancer.