Ted Lieu’s campaign mailer featured 36 deceptive government employee union endorsements and 38 counterfeit badges

by Michael D. Robbins
Director, Public Safety Project, PublicSafetyProject.org

February 15, 2011

El Segundo voters received a campaign mailer for Ted Lieu, a soft-on-crime, tax-and-spend leftist politician running for state senate in the extremely gerrymandered California Senate District 28 (CA SD 28). The campaign mailer featured 36 deceptive government employee union endorsements made to look like legitimate public safety endorsements, and 38 counterfeit badges which are actually government employee union logos.

Soft-on-crime, tax-and-spend politicians frequently use the cover of deceptive government employee union endorsements to masquerade as tough-on-crime, fiscally conservative politicians.

Front side of Ted Lieu’s campaign mailer featuring 36 deceptive government employee union endorsements and 38 counterfeit badges which are actually union logos.

Back side of Ted Lieu’s campaign mailer featuring 36 deceptive government employee union endorsements and 38 counterfeit badges which are actually union logos.

Ted Lieu, a California state legislator representing the extremely gerrymandered California Assembly District 53 (CA AD 53), ran for election in a special primary election to fill the vacancy created in CA SD 28 Senate District (CA 28th SD) by the death of Democrat State Senator Jenny Oropeza from Long Beach.

Jenny Oropeza died Wednesday evening, October 20, 2010, before the November 2010 general election. The Democrats campaigned heavily to win her election even though she was dead. Democrat Secretary of State Debra Bowen sent out a special voter information mailer to inform voters they could still vote for her even though she was dead, and that if she won the election, a special election would be held to fill her vacant seat. Republicans cried foul, claiming this mailer was a publicly funded campaign mailer that would not have been sent by the Democrat Secretary of State had the dead candidate been a Republican.

Click on the images below to view a full-size scanned image of the front and back of the Ted Lieu deceptive campaign mailer.

Note that the El Segundo Police Officers Association (union), Redondo Beach Police Officers Association (union), Torrance Police Officers Association (union), and Torrance Firefighters Association (union) all appear in the Ted Lieu endorsement list. These employee associations, which are actually government employee labor unions, almost always endorse and support the most extreme soft-on-crime and tax-and-spend politicians who will help them get the biggest increases in salaries, benefits, and pensions.

Government employee unions engage in collective bargaining with, and financially benefit from legislation enacted by, the politicians whose campaigns they support. Government employee unions, including police and firefighters unions, have inherent and unavoidable conflicts of interest that lead to massive political corruption; budget deficits that drive cities, counties, and states into or towards bankruptcy; and large tax increases and abuse of the taxpayers.

An examination of Ted Lieu’s voting record shows that he has an extreme leftist voting record for ever-increasing taxes and government regulation, and dangerous laws that increase violent crime that protect criminals while endangering their intended victims.

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Front side of Ted Lieu’s campaign mailer featuring 36 deceptive government employee union endorsements and 38 counterfeit badges which are actually union logos. Click on the image to see a larger one.

Back side of Ted Lieu’s campaign mailer featuring 36 deceptive government employee union endorsements and 38 counterfeit badges which are actually union logos. Click on the image to see a larger one.