Hundreds Protest Karl Rove's Fundraiser For Anti-EFCA Group

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Hundreds of people in central Illinois have protested outside a closed-door fundraiser that featured Republican strategist Karl Rove.

Rove spoke for about an hour Monday at a gathering sponsored by the Economic Freedom Alliance, a group that opposes the proposed Employee Free Choice Act. The people rallying outside represented unions that support the legislation.

The law would eliminate employers' rights to demand secret-ballot elections for workers voting to form unions.

The fundraiser's estimated 40 attendees included members of the business community.

Democratic Peoria County board member Mike Phelan called the Fox News commentator's appearance "a big step backwards."

Rove was an adviser to President George W. Bush.

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Information from: Journal Star, http://pjstar.com

-ASSOCIATED PRESS

Comments

[mergina]

09:56 AM on 05/13/2009

Is it just me, or does anyone else think he could be an ORC?

[PuzzledinPeoria]

09:33 PM on 05/12/2009

Shouldn't he be at the Hague right now?

[Petey131]

04:33 PM on 05/12/2009

"Rove was an adviser to President George W. Bush."

should read:

"Rove is a criminal."

[dizzypdx]

04:23 PM on 05/12/2009

Do you really need to add that last sentence? We know Rove worked for Bush. Some of us still have nightmares about that.

[mommadona]

04:09 PM on 05/12/2009

Well done.

Onward!

[sippewissett]

03:26 PM on 05/12/2009

I'd like to see protests breaking out wherever Rove is collecting $$ for speaking engagements. We should all loathe this man -- even conservatives -- because it's his brand of divisiveness that has now boxed the GOP into a regional, aging, white, racist box from which they cannot escape to rule the world.

If there were enough of these protests, maybe Rove, like Palin, would only venture out to a few "safe" events where the Right-wing fringe only was sure to be there. Find out where he goes and BE THERE: http://www.rove.com/appearances

[BachelorJohnnyCool]

03:23 PM on 05/12/2009

Wasn't he supposed to testify to Congress about the U.S. Attorney firings a couple of months ago? Whatever happened to that?

[annieR]

03:22 PM on 05/12/2009

Consider nurse s without a union who, under penalty of being "written up" and ultimately fired, must clock out no later than seven minutes following their shifts, NO MATTER WHAT. So, they goe through the day with the nagging worry that they might not make the seven-minute deadline. What about measuring chemo drugs? Gotta hurry! What about the need to educate patients and families about care after discharge? No time for that! What about carefully documenting patients' records to insure prescribed treatment gets carried out? What about a lot of other things determined by the number of patients assigned and the acuity of their illnesses? This affects every one of us, and nurses are at the mercy of a hostile work environment unless they have a union.

[Lemmy]

03:15 PM on 05/12/2009

Even George McGovern is against this bill. It ain't gonna happen.

[IntellectuallyHonest]

03:10 PM on 05/12/2009

Cheers to the protesters!

[smiththomas]

03:09 PM on 05/12/2009

unions are inflationary for everyone not in a union.

[Vyvjala]

03:08 PM on 05/12/2009

Was hannity at this meeting, he's a union member.

[smiththomas]

03:08 PM on 05/12/2009

if its secret from the unions, its secret from the employers. why is that not fair

[greatlardini]

03:00 PM on 05/12/2009

Anybody who is anti-union needs to read this:
www.nobeliefs.com/RepublicanDay.htm

[greatlardini]

03:07 PM on 05/12/2009

or google "A day in the life of Joe Republican".

[sippewissett]

03:30 PM on 05/12/2009

I hope this is the result you mean. It's hilarious: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=144 Not unlike the phoniness of secessionists who want all the infrastructure provided from a federal system but the "attitude" of snotty independence.

[mollyjackson]

03:07 PM on 05/12/2009

Could you give me the address for the Economic Freedom Alliance? I want to donate some money!!!

[greatlardini]

03:09 PM on 05/12/2009

You're a big girl, find it yourself.

[Petey131]

04:34 PM on 05/12/2009

Someone cut your eyes out?

[Emerald1943]

02:49 PM on 05/12/2009

Why was this man not arrested for contempt of Congress? Why is he not in jail?

[Lemmy]

03:16 PM on 05/12/2009

For what exactly?

[ljc]

03:49 PM on 05/12/2009

His involvement in the US Attornies firing and the Don Seigleman case. Try to keep up,k

[Petey131]

04:37 PM on 05/12/2009

Being your idol.