Merry Christmas, Senator Loeffler
Here are some really nice people who maxed-out contributions to Senator Loeffler of Georgia. And she promptly reported them to the ethics commission. But …
She forgot who they were and what they do for a living. Take a look:
Now, you’ll notice that they all have the same last name. Oddly enough, if I just type their last name and put a dot com after it, I get this.
But then, you might not want to disclose contributions from a company that paid millions of dollars in fines for exploiting undocumented immigrants and discriminated against Black American workers.
She [Loeffler] also introduced a bill with Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., in August that would allow judges to hold undocumented immigrants in contempt if they fail to show up to their immigration hearings and give judges the ability to issue warrants for their arrests.
“I will always put American citizens first & hold illegal immigrants accountable,” Loeffler tweeted along with an article about the bill.
And she probably didn’t want to draw attention to a company who discriminated against Black American workers in … you guessed it, Georgia.
Federal contractor Asplundh Tree Expert Co. has agreed to pay $55,000 in back wages after a routine compliance evaluation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) found alleged systemic hiring discrimination violations at its Macon, Georgia, facility.
So, the next time Loeffler needs to know where these people work and what they do there, it’s simple. They are professional self-employed hypocritical crooks. Just like she is.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
I wish I received money from people who signed their names on a check, but otherwise I knew nothing else about them. In my case it’s never happened even once in over 60 years, so Senator Loeffler must just be darn lucky.
1Go back in time with me about 20 years. IIRC, that was the company working in Conroe when an undocumented employee fell. They took him to the Harris county hospital where he was treated for about 6 months. Then, since the hospital was unable to do anything more to help him, his paralyzed from the waist down body was sent home to his momma. The utility that hired them was off the hook. The tree trimming company just dumped him on Harris county and that was the end of their duty to him.
2Tree trimming companies were one of the industries identified many years ago as potentially profiting from global warming.
Of course, that’s probably irrelevant to Loeffler since it’s faster and easier to make stock trades based on the secret briefings that senators get.
3If it weren’t for dirty money, Loeffler might not have any money, in politics and in life (same goes to perdue). Even with money from the likes of the asplundh clan, Warnock still out raised her almost double (as Ossoff did vs perdue). Let’s hope this equates to victories on January 5, and Trumpf finally getting officially tossed out the next day (again). Oh and mitch, too!
4Alfredo is working over the Christmas holiday? I’m deeply impressed.
5For the last few days I have been comparing Loeffler to Vivian Leigh/Scarlett Ohara in “Gone with the Wind”. Some of the dialogue is perfect. And I assume it is Trump saying “frankly Scarlett, I don’t give a damn.
6Just out of idle curiosity, has Asplundh contributed to any of our local GOP politicos? Like, oh, Cruz, Cornyn, Abbott, Patrick, etc? I see their orange trucks on the road between here and the city (any city)….so surely they’ve got their sticky fingers into Texas politics as well.
7Political Candidates Receiving Contributions in the 2016 Election Cycle from
ASPLUNDH TREE EXPERT CO POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ATE PAC)
Lots of 5000 dollars checks to Republicans across the country. From campaignmoney.com
8The orange trucks are rarer around here. Normally.
9But let a tropical storm threaten just a little bit, and there’s orange everywhere. Staging. Ahead of time. From all over the country.
Don’t get me wrong. Those linemen and tree guys work their asses off, make great money doing it, and they earn every penny as far as I’m concerned. And we appreciate it.
A lot. But IMHO the PAC money the Asplundhs pay is chump change compared to the paydays they get from their disaster capitolism. They and all the other contractors get it done fast.
But I seriously doubt there’s a lot of oversight on the bookkeeping end of it.
I hate that company. When we lived in the Seattle area they were everywhere, cutting far too much from trees that were growing into power lines. I even called to complain once and they stopped butchering that line of trees.
10In my neck of this great nation this tree company is not a household name. You rarely is ever see them anywhere around the nation’s capitol area. Instead, we have an army of independent tree services who mostly hire veterans and if they can’t find veterans to hire, they celebrate them.
11I guess I am sort of pleased they hire illegal migrants. Somebody has to.
Nearly 60 years ago, when I was in college, I had a housemate who was not a student. He was, in a way, a refugee, in this case from a mother who was a religious nut.
Having walked out on his family, he was completely unmoored. Asplundh kept him fed and housed.
Since he lived in a house full of college boys, people assumed he was a student. When they asked about that, he replied, “Ah drags bresh.”
We were pretty good friends but I lost track of him when he and two other friends decided to drive to Mexico in a VW Beetle and smuggle back a lot of pot. Smuggling guns on the way in was probably a bad idea.
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