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posted by martyb on Monday November 13 2017, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the cleaning-up dept.

Claiming a shortage of workers for the hospitality industry, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club has requested and obtained permission to hire 70 foreign workers. The claim of a shortage of available workers is disputed:

'"We currently have 5,136 qualified candidates in Palm Beach County for various hospitality positions listed in the Employ Florida state jobs database," CareerSource spokesman Tom Veenstra said Friday.'

70 is a slight increase over last year, when 64 foreign workers were hired.

"Making America Great Again" by hiring foreigners? Perhaps what is required is higher pay, not foreigners.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @04:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @04:05AM (#596656)

    in the "Democratic" primary I voted for Sanders

    Your pattern and mine match.

    In California, The Blues will allow Non-Blues to cross party lines and vote for Dems in the primary.
    (The Greens don't allow this and I'm registered non-partisan.)
    You ask for a Democratic crossover ballot. [google.com]

    DO NOT accept a "provisional" ballot (AKA a placebo ballot).
    N.B. A federal law says that if there is a registration irregularity, you must be offered a "provisional" ballot; it does NOT say that those must be counted (and, as a rule, they aren't).

    ...and poll workers are typically eager to push placebo ballots.
    When my polling place moved by a few hundred yards and I went to the old location out of habit, the gal offered me one of those damned palacebo ballots instead of first telling me that I should go down to the corner (another polling place) and check there.

    I listen to Pacific Radio and they do a great job of explaining this stuff repeatedly.
    I assume that anyone consuming only Lamestream Media (which includes NPR and PBS) missed this.

    Word is, there were 2 million votes for Bernie in California's primary that didn't get counted. [google.com]

    .
    I had previously had another crappy poll worker who wouldn't give me a paper ballot after I had signed the roll.
    This is how I found out for myself that placebo ballots are total crap.
    That's what the poll worker gave me and the authorities mailed me a notice that said mine was rejected.
    Now I insist that they show me my paper ballot before I sign anything.

    .
    I'm now wondering if Organized Labor will abandon The Blues and throw their weight behind a 3rd party in 2018 and 2020.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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