Public Sector Union Tops Campaign Contributions at $87.5 Million

Alliance for Worker Freedom ^ | 10/22/10 | Billy Gribbin

[Andrea19]

...That such public-sector labor unions top the list of 2010 donors should cause no little controversy. When groups like AFSCME empty their coffers to benefit certain politicians—in this case, those who will put union interests ahead of the public’s—they are naturally spending the dues of their members, members who have, in many cases, been forced by this kind of politician to join the union in the first place. Since state, county and municipal employee salaries are funded with taxpayer dollars, it ends up being the general public which unwittingly donates these millions of dollars to partisan political campaigns.

The Left has in Big Labor a dedicated propaganda machine, and vice-versa. Too many lawmakers have taken to passing harmful legislation that benefits no one but the union bosses, who in return spend other people’s hard-earned money on reelection campaigns. This has got to stop. The news that AFSCME has played sugar-daddy to Democrats at public expense should spur voters to elect congressmen who will institute meaningful union reform and cut Big Labor down to size.

[Andrea19]

Public sector unions hold nothing back; so after the election let 'em have it.

Help promote Conservative activism here & here & here & here

[rrrod]

Hopefully in a few yrs they will be unemployed and facing forclosures...or they can go to N. Korea.

[rashley]

...using OUR money against us.

[Mad_as_heck]

The GOP needs to figure out, and fast, that there is no point pandering to dedicated foes that will never give you a fair hearing. Even the biggest tent can’t hold bitter enemies.

Future GOP congress and president: Do whatever it takes to remove public sector unions from the election space.

[steveab]

AND you wonder why their pension fund is underfunded.

[Elle Bee]

In 1992, the Teamsters reportedly gave a massive amount of political money to the presidential candidate it knew its membership did not support. According to author Duke Zeller, "As for the actual amount of Teamster money poured into the Clinton-Gore campaign, Gene Giacumbo, a former elected member of [former Teamsters president Ron] Carey's board, believes the total figure to be even higher. 'Carey himself bragged to me that the union gave $56 million to Clinton,' he confirmed, 'and this was after an independent, outside poll the union paid for showed the membership responses preferred Perot, then Bush, with Clinton in third place.'"

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In March of 1996, during testimony before the Committee on House Oversight, Rutgers University economist Leo Troy also estimated that unions spent between $300 million and $500 million during the 1992 election cycle. This amount includes both cash contributions from union PACs and "in-kind" or "soft" money contributions consisting of such activities as voter registration drives, telephone banks, transportation to polls, and campaign "volunteers."

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