{"id":9056,"date":"2017-11-30T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9056"},"modified":"2017-11-30T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T18:00:08","slug":"ron-george-leftist-democrats-believe-businesses-are-slave-plantations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9056","title":{"rendered":"Ron George: \u201cLeftist Democrats\u201d Believe Businesses are \u201cSlave Plantations\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

Former GOP Delegate and gubernatorial candidate Ron George<\/a>, who is running for State Senate in District 30, said on Facebook that \u201cleftist Democrats\u201d think businesses are \u201crunning sweat kitchens or slave plantations.\u201d\u00a0 When challenged on his language by a reporter, he did not back down.<\/p>\n

The Facebook exchange<\/a> occurred on Daily Record reporter Bryan P. Sears\u2019s page.\u00a0 When Sears posted a video of Delegate Luke Clippinger weighing in on Governor Larry Hogan\u2019s newest sick leave proposal, George wrote:<\/p>\n

This helps no one. Employees will take it. Why not? Currently, I do not question my employees when they call in sick. It is their decision if they are too sick to work or have a personal need. But the small business owners I know in other states that have this say it is felt it is owed to them (the employees) and suddenly the business owners are simply paying for people not working. Why are the leftist democrats always thinking business owners are running sweat kitchens or slave plantations. Most treat their employees like family. I am responsible for my employees providing for their families and I feel responsible to do well for them and they feel the responsibility to do well for the business. Most owners put in many extra hours because of our responsibility to our employees and work extra hours for them. It ain\u2019t easy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

George owns a jewelry store<\/a> on Main Street in Annapolis.<\/p>\n

When Sears raised the possibility that George\u2019s reference to \u201cslave plantations\u201d might be viewed by some as \u201cracially charged,\u201d George replied, \u201cIn office I heard many comments speaking of business owners in disgust as if they are cold, heartless, inhumane.\u201d\u00a0 The full exchange appears below.<\/p>\n

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We get that as a business owner, George may not particularly enjoy the government setting his workplace practices.\u00a0 But multiple<\/a> polls<\/a> find that huge majorities of Marylanders support paid sick leave.\u00a0 Even Governor Hogan has introduced not one<\/a> but two<\/a> sick leave bills.\u00a0 Are they all \u201cleftist Democrats\u201d who believe that business owners treat employees like slaves?\u00a0 Or is Ron George as out of touch with Marylanders as he is inclined to the use of racially charged rhetoric?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Former GOP Delegate and gubernatorial candidate Ron George, who is running for State Senate in District 30, said on Facebook that \u201cleftist Democrats\u201d think businesses are \u201crunning sweat kitchens or slave plantations.\u201d\u00a0 When challenged on his language by a reporter, he did not back down. The Facebook exchange occurred on Daily Record … Continue reading Ron George: \u201cLeftist Democrats\u201d Believe Businesses are \u201cSlave Plantations\u201d<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,1058,222],"tags":[1545,2088,1975,2089],"class_list":["post-9056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-district-30","category-ron-george","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-district-30","tag-earned-sick-leave","tag-ron-george"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2m4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9059,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}