Posted on 02/26/2015 5:20:07 AM PST by rellimpank
During Chuck Nevitt's undistinguished NBA playing career, he earned the nickname "The Human Victory Cigar," as he only made it onto the court after his team was ahead by an insurmountable margin. The 7-foot-5 center played only 826 minutes over the span of nine NBA seasons, which is equivalent to about 18 full games. When Nevitt pulled his sweatpants off, the starting players began making dinner plans.
In Wisconsin politics, the billionaire Koch brothers have now become the Republican human victory cigars. When the left has exhausted every talking point and political strategy, it trots out uncles Charles and David Koch as a last gasp.
Hearing the word "Koch" from a Democrat means something he really doesn't like is about to happen, and he is powerless to stop it. When it is invoked, there is likely a Republican and a bottle of champagne chilling nearby.
Such is the case with this week's right-to-work debate as legislative Republicans are poised to send a bill to Gov. Scott Walker's desk. Early in the week, Democrats were crowing that the bill, which would bar labor agreements requiring union fees, closely resembled model legislation put forth by the Koch-backed American Legislative Exchange Council.
But, in fact, the bill was modeled on Michigan's 2012 right-to-work law. Wisconsin's Senate Majority Leader, Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), noted that replicating Michigan's law was important because it has already withstood a federal court challenge.
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“President Scott Walker” - I’m sorry, I’m just getting myself accustomed to the sound of that.
After all the crap that the unions gave Walker a few years ago, this must feel delightful.
Worth repeating.
—but they’ve never heard of “Uncle” Tom Steyer—
I’ll bet the majority of people who support forcing a worker to join a union, call themselves “pro-choice”
I think Hell must have in fact frozen over:
Wisconsin has a Republican legislature, a Republican governor, and is about to become a Right-to-Work state!
1.) Are they out of fight and/or money. The Unions spent a lot of money and political capital fighting Walker's PUBLIC union reforms. So much, even the national Dems wanted them to back off for strategic reasons.
2.) Private Unions are small. It is not worth BIG LABOR to fight for private unions. DUES from public employees is were its at. FACT: In 2012, private payrolls Unions represented 6.9 percent and in government employment it represented 37.0 percent.
3.) GOP can capitalize on this by tying BIG LABOR and BIG GOVERNMENT together. Unions and Governments do not care about the working guy just dues from government employees to advance the progressive agenda.
Hummm Verry Intresssting !JS hacker points out the WI right to work law doesn’t come from “da Koch’s” but is modeled after the Michigan law. As JS’s Christian Schneider set up this piece I thought it weird he used a NBA sports figure “human victory cigar” analogy. When using that expression could lead into a good old Marxist diatribe but didn’t. Unless he did later because I don’t link to lefty sources.
They’re also against school vouchers and charter schools.
How did bashing the K’ bros work out for dingy Ried?
FYI
Unions go down to the workers in WI.
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LOL - that's great!!!
Chuck Nevitt! A Laker fan-favorite.
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