Images of Detroit blight used on billboards by anti-union groups in Chattanooga (funded by Norquist)

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Source: Detroit Free Press

Anti-union forces funded by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist are renting as many as 13 billboards in Chattanooga, Tenn., as Volkswagen workers prepare to vote next week to accept or reject representation by the UAW.

The rhetoric has moved from the plant floor to city streets.

The first of the billboards went up earlier this week. One shows the crumbling Packard Plant ruins that have been shuttered for 55 years. The copy reads: “Detroit. Brought to you by the UAW.”

Another has a red X through the second word of United Auto Workers, with a crudely lettered Obama just beneath it. Beneath it in small print it reads: “The UAW spends millions to elect liberal politicans including Barack Obama.” — workerfreedom.org. (Note: Politicians is misspelled on the billboard.)

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20140206/BUSINESS0104/302060166/Volkswagen-VW-UAW-Chattanooga-union-organize-vote

[okaawhatever]

1. Wow. How low is that. nt

[loudsue]

2. I am calling for liberals to use that billboard for target practice, like the wingnuts do in the

south if something even begins to resemble something liberal. Plus, there needs to be OUTRAGE launched at them that they launch at any little thing that liberals are allowed to put up. Liberals have to keep our messages "nice" in the south, but repukes can get as nasty as they want to: KKK signs, for instance....just south of my county.

I'm tired of the double standard. People need to stand up to this kind of shit.

If they won't take it down, someone needs to take it down for them. Vandalism is sometimes appropriate. This is one of those times. Cost them some money.

[SoapBox]

3. Abso-fucking-lutely!

I so want Dems to turn the tables and do this to the PukeBaggers.

But then again, we would need Dems that have an actual spine.

[warrant46]

4. A Spine ?

That's like looking for the Holy Grail or Judge Crater

[Pterodactyl]

5. That is totally not fair! Using pictures of Detroit is reprehensible!

Those images are just too powerful.