Republican Presidential candidates blast Obama’s appointments to NLRB

The AP (1/6) reports, “With an eye on the upcoming South Carolina primary, Republican presidential candidates on Thursday assailed President Barack Obama for bypassing the Senate to name three new members to the National Labor Relations Board. Newt Gingrich called on Congress to eliminate funding for the agency, which Republicans claim favors labor unions.” Rick Santorum “warned, ‘You are not above the law, Mr. President. We don’t want the NLRB to be filled with a bunch of cronies who work for the labor unions.’”

Mitt Romney’s New Campaign Ad Rips NLRB’s Challenge To Boeing Plant. The AP (1/6) reports, “Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is bashing the National Labor Relations Board in a new ad airing in South Carolina the day after the Obama administration circumvented Congress and put three new people on the labor panel.” In the ad, Romney accuses “Obama of adopting policies that ‘affect our economy based not upon what’s right for the American worker but, instead, what’s right for their politics.’ He also contends that the board is stacked with ‘union stooges.’”