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BENISHEK FOR CONGRESS

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Spot puts the focus on Jason Allen’s dealings with the SEIU Republican Congressional candidate Dan Benishek launched a new ad on the Internet today, shining a light on opponent Jason Allen’s dealings with militant labor union SEIU.

On June 22, 2009, the SEIU’s Detroit health care union gave one of Senator Allen’s political committees a contribution of $2,000.

Just six weeks later, Allen sponsored legislation that would have forcibly unionized more than 40,000 home health care workers, all of whom would become members of the SEIU without even having a vote on it.

SEIU is a very controversial union that spends heavily to elect liberal candidates, and uses its dues to fund even more controversial organizations like ACORN, which dissolved after hidden camera videos revealed ACORN employees counseling on how to provide housing to a prostitution ring.

“Senator Allen’s sponsorship of a bill that would have involuntarily unionized more than 40,000 independent contractors is very troubling,” said Dr. Dan Benishek. “His bill would have been a giveaway of $6 million of state taxpayer money to one of the nation’s most militant unions. And the fact that the SEIU agreed with Senator Allen’s record in the state Senate enough to give him $2,000 tells Republicans in the First District everything they need to know about Senator Allen’s record,” he said.

Dr. Dan Benishek is a surgeon from Iron River, Michigan and a Republican candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 1st Congressional District.

Please visit our website at BenishekforCongress.com

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