A House Divided

you really don't get it Carla do you. You can not spend the members money on politicans who you thing should get it. The members should decide. You used the local as your own piggy bank for favors and these same people can not help you now. Every election offical (man) you gave money to has dumped you. Your local gave money to Corzine opps!!! he gave that and more back to you. Even Cory Booker who can not walk and chew gum at the same time knew to take the locals money and your personal money and run, best move he has made as Mayor. You are a disgrace to the labor movement and as bad as CWA is as a union, they should have gotten rid of you a long time ago. Good bye for ever!!!!!

"According to Barack Obama, Americans across the country are asking themselves daunting questions like "Will I be able to leave my children a better world than I was given?"

no... simple as that...

thank you for screwing up the future generations...

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

"History teaches us that, left to their own devices, employers do all in their power to turn workers into becoming as close to slaves as they can get away with. That is evil; pure and simple."

this state sucks my money dry... and spends it on 4 billion dollars worth of bs school building...

history teaches us what exactly?

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

... I don't have her nerve in my tooth.

As a reminder, here's what CWA National has found regarding the leadership qualities of Ms. Katz:

"The local spent money to send people to an April CWA conference in Washington, D.C., and to a June convention in Las Vegas, largely to support Katz's union vice candidacy."

"Katz worked only part-time as a local president while accepting a full-time salary. The reports says she worked only two to five hours per week from September 2004 to present while she attended law school." (I guess 2 to 5 hours per week meets the definition of "devoted my work life")

"Katz improperly gave more than $700,000 in political contributions without approval from the executive board, including $20,800 to Newark Mayor Cory Booker's 2006 campaign, even though only 36 Newark residents are 1034 members, and $77,000 to Bergen County Democrats, although less than 25 members work in Bergen County. "

So let's assume number of $25,000 for those trips, and about $300,000 in salary she collected while annoying everyone at Seton Hall, that's well over a million bucks she spent or accumulated for herself and her causes. Where'd that money come from? Union dues. Where do the union dues from govt. workers come from - public funds. TAXES.

And let us remember, she conducted back door negotiations with a $guy she u$ed to $date, which is despicable, even if the emails contain not one per$onal note.

Unions may be necessary for the protection of the worker, but honest leadership is necessary for the success of the union. It's the union itself that is seeking to correct this situation, not some conservative federal entity like, say, the US Attorney, although that may come.

This argument isn't about the validity of unions, it's about the validity of Carla's leadership. The state is barrelling down a road to bankruptcy, people cannot afford to live here, property taxes are going up again, pensions in the private sector are a distant memory, corruption (not just Carla's) remains rampant, and this person is writing romantic diatribes about the union movement.

It's an old ploy called the nobility racket - talk about how you are on the high road, how you would never do anything unethical, and hope your enemies will become distracted enough so you get the money. It's worked so far in her "career" I guess, but the national union is on to her.

Your critique is, allegedly, fact based and not bitter, ugly or personal.

If the facts are as you say they are; then Katz and crew deserved to be canned.

What troubles me even more is the prospect that what both sides of this dispute are saying about each other may be 99% true.

We need good honest strong unions and to the extent that we don't have them, workers will continue to be shafted.

As it turns out though, people are still better off in a bad union than with no union at all.

The person who changes your grandmother's bedpan in the nursing home is as worthy of making a good secure decent living as anyone who is in CWA or the Teamsters or the MD who checks in for two minutes seconds and then bills 200 bucks for the hospital visit.

My sense is that the truth about all these allegations will be the subject of much public and legal scrutiny over the next year and that is a good thing.

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

there is a difference between a government which protects your rights and an all encompassing mass of who knows what... that we have now...

contrary to popular belief... you do not have the right to a new car or a big screen tv... you do not have the right to never be offended... you do not have the right to free food and housing... you do not have the right to a job... you do not have the right to happiness... etc...

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

My 15 minutes is up! How will I afford my mortgage and pay for my children's schooling and maintain a condo in Hoboken? Oh wait... Sorry. Girl, don't go away mad; just go away!!!

I know of no one arguing that large "screen TVs" etc are things to which all people should have "rights".

Face it, the Limbaugh/Bush/McCain Republican world view is based on not much more than pure materialistic greed and egoistic selfishness.

I agree with you that Dems are far from perfect; but at least we have ideals that are, at the core, based on common human decency.

I don't see anything much except ugliness behind what people like Bush and his enablers stand for.

This is about so much more than anyone's stupid little tax bill.

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Yo Carla. You big mouthed, conniving, ass kissing opportunist. When the hell are you going to get it. WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOU. Any sane person in this State couldn't care less what you think. We sure don't want to hear it. 

WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO SHUT UP AND SLITHER AWAY.  I know, when the governor pays you another couple millions $$$$$$$$$$.

 And when is PolitickerNJ going to stop giving this gold digger a forum?

....merely quantitative sense. I heartily acknowledge that tax bills are too high and that much of the money is wasted.

We're about to go into the hole for more hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out a real estate/banking industry that cashed in on a bubble they promoted...and now, along with Bear Sterns, we have the notion of being "too big to fail".

Most of the corruption/waste in government that rightly turns you off so much is in service to some element of the "private" sector that has bribed (legally or otherwise) someone in some way.

Just about every business interest lobbies and "contributes" to pols to "have their way" with taxpayers and consumers.

Maybe you should join me in calling for fundamental root to branch campaign finance reform that would eliminate the problem of legalized bribery?

Giving union members living wages, security and decent benefits isn't what's driving Nj and the whole country into the hole of unsane debt; it's the corporate welfare that makes the already filthy rich even more rich.

That's the thing about greed and power lust. It can never be sated.

btw Edmac, The misogynistic hatred here toward MS Katz (from some here) is truly amazing. Simply throwing nasty invective doesn't make your case; quite the contrary.

Time will tell if Katz is the victim of an illicit/ugly orchestrated campaign to discredit her or if she's some kind of wicked wacky louse.

Meanwhile, the Katz critics would have some more credibility if they would use their real names. Eh?

From Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle there is no progress......Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Even in Carla's. While she has spent much of her 26 years in the labor movement, disenfranchising,manipulating, isolating, and lying to the same Union members she so desperately wants to come to her rescue, she has some valid and factual points.

Much of her recent troubles w/National Union has been spurred by some very nasty and personal vendettas. She has long been the envy of many of her collegues. Though i am not quite sure why.

She is not the only CWA local president to use their local as personal theifdoms and to carry out their petty dramas. What she is accused of is buisness as usual in CWA. (Take it from some one who knows) Why the National stepped in this time? She opposed the contract, she took the national to court. That contract did not help Union Members. They gave away the store without putting up much if any fight. That contract will have severe implications for Union members for years to come. Not to mention, other State Worker contracts outside of CWA
She exposed them and pay back is a B*&^%. Much like what she has done to her own Union members who attempted to expose her she is out on her bony tush. So be it. HURTS DON'T IT CARLA?

Everyone thinks she got about 6 mil. Well, it is between 12 and 15 mil and a full ride for her kids through college.

Watch her hair frizz even more after she reads this post. Black Widows have nothing on Karla