Lies Behind Closed Public-Sector Doors

Of the six locations at which home child-care providers voted to pay dues to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), volunteers for the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity managed to get close enough for actual observations at only one, having arrived before the armed policeman was at the door.

Among the more curious notes from that polling place was one about a woman waiting in line to vote, who said that somebody she knows used to work at “the Center” and didn’t meet the director until she’d been there for five years.  Given my organization’s involvement in the issue, I don’t think it’s a stretch to infer that she meant our Center and that the intended message was that we’re a shadowy organization with suspicious motives.

The thing is, the Center hasn’t been around for five years.  More than that, it’s not so big that employees can avoid each other and the boss.  And more than that, CEO Mike Stenhouse is the one primarily tasked with interacting with everybody in and associated with the organization.

It’s a small thing, I know, but even as cynical as I am, I still find it surprising when people simply make things up for political ends.  Which naturally feeds back into my cynicism.  If unionizers will make stuff up about an organization that questions their promises and their methods, would a bureaucracy put a small thumb on the scale to help a favored president win reelection?  What are the people who make decisions, including voters, actually being told is true?

Anyway, back to trying to figure out how to get accurate, consistent transparency data from RI government agencies.

Oh, by the way: As the observer in question left the location, the policeman outside said she’d be arrested if she went to any other polling places.  She didn’t.

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