Firefighters

To hear the democrats talk, you'd think that anyone even remotely connected with a union is an ardent supporter of John Kerry. Tonight I met someone who isn't and he's not alone.

It turns out that he's a firefigher from one of the largest fire departments in the state. The union (IAFF) claims that something like 97% of it's members support John Kerry, yet it's interesting to learn that very few firefighters (if any) remember being asked. The discussion here seems to indicate large areas where no polling was done of IAFF's members. I wonder where that 97% number came from?

Firefighers for Bush is a group of, you guessed it, firefighters for Bush. Besides supporting Bush they're pretty vocal about how their union has put it's support behind Kerry in order to benefit the union leadership. One firefigher sums up the views of this group,

The irony here is this; our "International Association" tries to meld us together by using the terms "Brotherhood and brother and sister and family".

Yet when it comes down to the single most important decision we will make as a family for the next four years, the IAFF throws all those terms out.

Then they throw the weight of our large political machine behind a candidate that very few of us support!

They do this without so much as a polling of the membership to see where the majority stood on the issue. I understand that over the years, unions as a whole supported the more liberal democrat party. I feel the reason for this was they were going up against the big businesses that were on the other side of the fence.

This is not the case with us nor has it ever been. Yet every time we have a national election our leaders, whoever they may be, choose without asking us, the members, who we would like to back.

As I hear it, at the recent IAFF convention, Kerry made all kinds of promises to the firefighters who attended. Well it's time for the IAFF to wake up and smell the roses - sure he can make these promises but he will never make good on them!

Get ready Brother Firefighters!

Because right now as a nation we are fighting terror on foreign soil - if Kerry takes office we will be fighting it right here on our own soil!