The House Republicans just don’t seem to learn from their mistakes. In a press release today opposing the Employee Free Choice Act, the Republicans focused on a "former union organizer" named Jen Jason, who told a tale of "intimidation":

“I began my career with UNITE with a strong belief in worker’s rights and democracy in the workplace,” said Jen Jason, a former organizer for UNITE-HERE, a union that represents nearly a million workers and retirees in the textile, lodging, foodservice, and manufacturing industries. “During the course of my employment with the union, I began to understand the reality behind the rhetoric. I took in the ways that organizers were manipulating workers just to get a majority on ‘the cards’ and the various strategies that they employed. I began to appreciate that promises made by organizers at a worker’s house had little to do with how the union actually functions as a ‘service’ organization.”

Except it was already shown almost two years ago, when she first testified to Congress with that quote, that Jen Jason, while a former organizer, is actually a highly-paid anti-union consultant.

What Jason didn’t say is that she is a high-priced, anti-union consultant until a subcommittee member asked her about it.

Jason left UNITE HERE in the middle of an organizing campaign to go over to the other side as a management consultant—for which her firm was paid $225,000 for the first year.

The website for her firm—Six Questions Consulting—proclaims: “We help management implement long-term union avoidance programs.” Jason didn’t tell the subcommittee that her first client was Cintas—the commercial laundry giant whose employees she had been trying to organize as a UNITE HERE employee a few months earlier.

Despite this embarrassment, the House Republicans continue to rely on her flimsy testimony two years after being exposed as a paid consultant.

The only people the Republicans can muster to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act is someone who makes a living stopping employees from exercising their free choice at work. Here’s to hoping their incompetence continues in 2009.