8 Responses to “Elaine Chao *Refuses* 25,000 Letters”

1. Jim Pence says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 10:52 am

   Elaine Chao and the skills gap.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXLHFY5f4g

2. Michael Whitney says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

   To clarify on how we worked our delivery for those with questions:

   We received over 25,000 letters to Elaine Chao from the petition page on this site and on other websites. If we printed all those letters out, it would’ve taken up all the space and more of 3 boxes we brought to the Dept. of Labor.

   In the interest of keeping our delivery environmentally friendly, we condensed the letters into a single, phonebook-sized petition with our letter to Elaine and the names and locations of each of our signatories.

   Still, the Dept. of Labor security head refused to let even the paper alone into the building to be delivered to Secretary Chao. As the release states, we are still going to mail the petition.

3. C.I.H. says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

   So let me get this straight. Elaine Chao has funnelled thousands upon thousands of dollars from the Peoples Republic of China into her husband’s senate war chest, despite federal laws prohibiting contributions from foreign nations, and she has the balls to call your 501(c)(3) organization a security threat?

   What on earth has she been smoking?

4. Michelle L. says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

   If Ms. Chao-McConnell is truly concerned about American workers, worker welfare, safety, health, and wage issues, and she enjoys living in a democracy, she should welcome any and all comments regarding opinions, negative and positive from all Americans.

   It’s difficult to understand her refusal in receiving mail and comments.

5. Jacqueline S. Homan says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 7:20 pm

   The reason your organization is deemed a “security threat” to Secretary Chao and her lackeys is because anytime anyone who speaks out against the greed-driven power-hungry agenda of the ruling elite, it upsets their apple cart. And they don’t want that.

   In order for wealthy elitists, whom Chao herself is a part of, to ensure their own power and privilege remains unchallenged, they must first maintain obscene wealth and power for themselves by creating a desperate and impoverished workforce. Therefore, they are easily able to stifle the voices of the masses beneath them. They seek to keep the masses disenfranchised and insecure in order to keep their own seat at the top, while caring nothing whatsoever for the tribulations and fate of everyone else.

   Instead, they point to the very poor, the “underclass”, and tell middle class workers that the poor are ready and willing to replace them in their jobs if they don’t “suck it up and take it”. They also have convinced the American public these last 30 years that the poor were the enemy, because that lets the filthy rich power-mongers off the hook.

   I devoted three chapters in my recently published book, “Classism For Dimwits” (available in hardcover and paperback) which adresses these issues. On that note, I am not a Communist. But I am opposed to a rigged market of unfair trade and labor practices which hurt this country and all who made it great. Of course, taking that position probably makes me a “security threat”, too. I wonder how Ms. Chao and her staff would react if famed film producer Michael Moore showed up with his camera crew about this.

   Jacqueline S. Homan,
   Author: “Classism For Dimwits”

6. Tabatha says:
   March 27th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

   The Security Gaurds in the federal building were doing their job. You should commend the Security Gaurds for protecting themselves, the well being of their families and fellow Americans in the building. Do you know what it is like to be on the front line? Just in case you loaded the box with anthrax…remember 9/11 and the following anthrax problems and Americans who died from it? You darn well know federal buildings can’t accept boxes of paper from strangers until the box has been irradiated.

   The weak union of local 12 has no right to disregaurd the security that protects their members who work in the building. I’m guessing they are not members by choice… the union requires their money (union dues)…or the Guards don’t get their job. Are the Guards the underclass or the evil hard working wealthy Americans?

7. BJ says:
   March 29th, 2008 at 9:33 am

   Was just checking out the coverage of your delivery to the Labor Department. I’m confused. The pictures show you with three boxes, but you said you only delivered a stack of petitions the size of a phone book. So, what was in the boxes? It is hard to believe you couldn’t get in. I thought federal office buildings are open to the public?

8. John says:
   April 10th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

   Response to Tabatha:

   Do you mean to tell us that post 9/11 security requires Federal security officers to stop all deliveries of papers into and out of government offices? That they have no procedures to determine whether documents are contaminated? So they have to keep all paper documents from going into or out of government offices?

   I guess that’s why government hasn’t been doing anything since 2001.

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