Posted on 09/24/2024 6:59:08 AM PDT by re_tail20
Illinois government workers’ union dues fund Democratic Party campaign committees, which are now seeking to tip the presidential election outcome in swing states. That fails to align with at least 40% of members’ politics.
The Illinois Democratic Party wants to decide the outcome of the presidential election by making a strategic investment in swing states, according to state party chair Lisa Henandez.
That strategy was echoed by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who said, “We should adopt [Wisconsin] – and we have in many respects – to be part of their organization to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”
The problem: the money in the Illinois Democratic Party’s political coffers hasn’t been “donated” solely by willing Democratic voters. Some of the party’s resources come from Illinois government worker union dues.
An estimated 45% of Illinois union members supported former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Nationally, at least 40% of union households voted Republican in the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections.
That means union spending on Democratic causes was used against union members’ voting preferences. Government union bosses have been bolder in speaking for members than other union leaders.
The Teamsters just refused to pick a presidential candidate for the first time in decades. Almost 60% of its members wanted to endorse Trump.
Here’s how it works: Government union members pay dues to their unions. Most of those dues don’t stay at the local level. Instead, the money flows up to the unions’ affiliates and political action committees, which use union money to fund political causes.
For example, the Service Employees International Union State Council, which encompasses members of SEIU HCII, Local 73 and Local 1, collected money from members and then diverted more than $2.3 million to its political action committee in 2023, according to a report the union...
(Excerpt) Read more at illinoispolicy.org ...
Now, there’s a big surprise......I think I’m going to have a heart attack and die from NOT surprise.
Business as usual
Communists do as they please. Rules are for the rest of us.
Sounds like Little Dick Durbin and his union scum are trying to JaySix the presidential election.
I thought that’s the way all government unions; federal, state and county worked. At least from my observations for the past 60 years. Wasn’t that the reason public sector workers were allowed to unionize, to be able to be held hostage to their jobs by the party (primarily if not exclusively democrat) and their dues used as the party wished, at the expense of all taxpayers? Am I missing something?
Hmmmmmm? Really? Unions would never divert funds for this sort of effort would they? Even if the rank and file didn’t want them to. /$
Nothing new with those people.
Citizens United needs to be reversed.
Government worker’s union dues being diverted to swing
states to fund Democratic Party campaign committees
<><>Government workers are paid with tax dollars
<><>many tax-paid govt workers are union members
<><>they pay dues to their unions.
<><>most dues don’t stay at the local level.
<><>the dues money flows up to the unions’ affiliates
<><>dues money also funds political action committees,
<><>pacs use union dues to fund political causes.
<><>this adds up to hefty sums
<><>the Service Employees Union diverted $2.3M+ to its pac in 2023.
"Illinois Government worker’s union dues being diverted to swing - state politics - (Outrage)"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Based on limited information, there appears to be a pattern with union decision-makers, who are also state actors, using their offices to effectively abridge 1st Amendment-protected free speech in connection with union dues.
From older related threads ...
This may be a 1st Amendment religious expression / free speech protections issue applied to the states by the 14th Amendment (14A).
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
A while back (2015-16), comparable (imo) cases were decided against unions taking union dues out of a government paycheck, union members complaining that they didn't necessarily agree with policies being pushed by the union.
Union and School Illegally Take Dues from Teachers' Paychecks (9.20.16)
PA moves to block public unions from withholding dues from paychecks (10.16.15)
The problem with 14A protecting citizens' constitutionally enumerated rights from abridgment by the states is this imo. Democratic and Republican Trump supporters first need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will also do their duty to protect citizens' rights from abuse by the states.
Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt (7.28.24)
This should really piss off the rank and file, but it won’t.
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