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Surprise: Ed Schultz received $190,000 from unions last year
In fiscal 2011, Schultz received $190,000 from the Communications Workers of America for what the U.S. Department of Labor categorized as “representational activities.”
For swag like that, you’d think Schultz could at least get it right about the CWA name. Instead, he invariably refers to it as the “Communication” Workers of America when its president, Larry Cohen, is a guest on Schultz’s radio show, as Cohen often is…
All told, Schultz has been paid $337,490 by unions in the last seven years, according to the Labor Department. These same records show no payments from unions to Schultz between fiscal years 2000 to 2004 — before Schultz became such a passionate advocate for unions over the airwaves.
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pecan pie on March 9, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Wow. Isn’t that kind of money usually set aside by the unions to pay off their local mobster?
rihar on March 9, 2012 at 3:13 PM
Surprise:Ed Schultz received $190,000 from unions last yearFIFY
Meat Fighter on March 9, 2012 at 3:17 PM
Mo betta
antipc on March 9, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Frankly, I would like to know this sort of stuff about every blowhard and pundit on television, on both sides of the aisle.
Dack Thrombosis on March 9, 2012 at 3:27 PM
Ed Schultz is a Fluke.
RBMN on March 9, 2012 at 3:27 PM
The 1%
Good Lt on March 9, 2012 at 3:36 PM
Like a pimp paying a ho.
tdpwells on March 9, 2012 at 3:37 PM
Funny!
Unions giving money to a guy who has
threatened to torch the effing place(the MSNBC studio)
ToddPA on March 9, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Ok. So what?
Dante on March 9, 2012 at 3:49 PM
Does MSNBC have rules about its “talent” charging people to go on their channel?
rob verdi on March 9, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Actually, it’s the other way around. The CWA ho’s are just handing one of their media pimps his “skim”. Shultz will just keep on pimping the union party line, the unions will keep getting the forced graft from their subjugated membership (under government protection), and Shultz stays on the govt-union gravy train.
Sickening.
Harbingeing on March 9, 2012 at 4:21 PM
$10 per viewer seems steep.
BHO Jonestown on March 9, 2012 at 4:59 PM
The only rule they have is, ‘impugning and throwing libel against any and all conservatives is a good thing.’
Oh, and ‘we MUST coordinate with MMFA at all times, no matter what.’
Myron Falwell on March 9, 2012 at 5:00 PM