From what I’ve heard, I think it’s showed up in about 30 different local papers from coast to coast.
Maybe so, but I can conceive of way more than 30 locales.
I don’t know how many papers but McClatchey posted it on their home page. I think that the only McClatchey paper who printed it was the Miami Sun.
I think that it came from some Democrat media control group. They had a fairly effective media campaign going last fall, with operatives of local SEIU branches spamming the media. I caught them in the Bellingham Herald and called them on it. The letters were just too formulaic and juvenile. I think that someone just gave up on the union letters and wrote one and sent to a lot of papers.