Posted on 10/26/2010 3:43:11 AM PDT by Scanian
Just when we'd been told the Chamber of Commerce had bought the election, along comes the American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees to pour nearly $90 million into the campaign.
According to The Wall Street Journal, this makes the public-sector union the biggest spender of all the outside groups. The National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union rank among the top five. Collectively, these three unions representing millions of public workers -- only the SEIU is majority private -- are devoting an estimated $170 million to an election Democrats insist that they are losing because of the nefarious influence of outside money.
AFSCME is the ideal champion of a Democratic Party that is increasingly run by and for the public sector. At their most basic, the stakes of the 2010 election are whether government works for us, or we work for government. No one has a more direct political and financial stake in this question than AFSCME and its compatriots. Their bottom line depends on making us work for them -- for their ever-expanding ranks, for their salaries, for their benefits, for their pensions.
And, ultimately, for their campaign coffers. The head of AFSCME's political operation, Larry Scanlon, explained to the Journal, "The more members coming in, the more dues coming in, the more money we have for politics." Q.E.D.
In this sense, President Obama's signature economic initiative, the stimulus, contributed to AFSCME's extrav- agant campaign to save the officeholders who voted for the stimulus.
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Our tax dollars at work.
All I can say is I am driving my 84 year old mother to the polling place next. We are going to vote the straight republican ticket.
What is particularly annoying about this is that AFCSME is NOT a choice. I know many who have complained that the choice is this - either you pay dues to them or an equivalent amount is taken out of your paycheck and given to a charity of “AFCSME’s” choice. Many of their members are NOT Dems and are angry about the knee-jerk politics of this organization. Their dues should be spent on something other than politics but unions now-days are nothing more than fundraising machines for the Dems - and many unhappy members are aware that THEIR money is being taken away to support candidates they loathe.
And then we are supposed to bail out their retirement fund?
BTTT
Good! Don't support those Log Cabin Republicans that sued against DADT! ;-)
Seriously, though, please don't vote straight Republican by checking the box that says "Straight Republican"...vote each Republican candidate separately. If you check the party box, the party folks figure that you're someone they can take for granted. Believe me...I used to work the with elections.
The Decline & Fall Of American Exceptionalism - - -
- - - replaced by corrupt and bloated government.
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