King 5 News – Electronic Home Monitoring
Glen Morgan questions Electronic Home Monitoring’s reliability.
Shift Washington – Union Threatens Lobbyists – Support Our Boycott, or Democrats Won’t Show Up
The Freedom Foundation obtained an email sent to all of the state’s 900+ registered lobbyists which demanded they tell their clients not to utilize two Seattle Hyatt hotels, warning that “it may be difficult to garner participation from Democrats” if they do so.
Watchdog.org – Labor analyst: Seattle Minimum Wage Won’t Lift the Impoverished
In a video interview Friday, Freedom Foundation labor analyst Max Nelsen told Watchdog Washington that Seattle’s new $15 per hour minimum wage law won’t lift the impoverished into prosperity.
The Seattle Times – Guest: How the Union Trumped Voters in Seattle Public Schools Budget
Earlier this year, the SEA organized teachers to vote down the budgets of more than 40 schools to prevent the School Board from reducing overhead costs by cutting back on administrative positions, such as secretaries and bookkeepers.
The David Boze Show – The Freedom Foundation’s Maxford Nelsen On a Local Labor Union Angry with Seattle Hyatt
The Freedom Foundation’s Maxford Nelson recently obtained two emails from Unite Here 8, the local hospitality workers’ union, which threatened all registered state lobbyists in an attempt to keep them/their clients from patronizing two Seattle Hyatts currently under a union boycott. Dave and Max discuss.
Shift Washington – Seattle Teachers’ Union Creates Funding Problem, Vetoes Solution
According to the Freedom Foundation’s Jami Lund, the Seattle Education Association (SEA)—Seattle’s local teachers’ union—successfully engaged in a coordinated effort to counteract a budgetary decision made by Seattle’s elected School Board earlier this year. By doing so, the union proved that it is the will of the local teachers’ union—and not of voters—the matters in the Seattle School District.
Washington House Republicans – Shea Urges Reforms of Electronic Home Monitoring Program, Says Public is Not Safe
Glen Morgan of The Freedom Foundation, an Olympia-based think tank which first broke the news last September about problems with electronic home monitoring, says private companies have a financial incentive not to report violations because they won’t get paid if the offender is sent back to jail.
The David Boze Show – The Freedom Foundation’s Maxford Nelsen on SCOTUS Decision Regarding Obama’s National Labor Relations Board Appointment
Max Nelsen of The Freedom Foundation comments on yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling regarding the President overstepping by appointing to the National Labor Relations Board while congress was in recess, also the Freedom Foundation’s drive to get candidates for office to sign the pledge to give it back to the worker
The Seattle Times – Are We Still in the Land of the Free?
He added he’s joining the group, called the Freedom Foundation, to help “protect the people against infringement on their freedom.”
