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Big Labor pledges it will go all in, again, in its drive to knock out its top political adversaries in 2014.
And one of the biggest targets is Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, hero to conservatives, bane of the left for his public-sector collective bargaining reforms.
Michael Podhorzer, political director of the AFL-CIO, in a New York Times piece last week said the nation’s labor unions look to spend at least $300 million going after Republicans in this fall’s elections.
Much of that spending is expected to be dropped on four industrial battlegrounds — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, traditional union strongholds. Big Labor also wants Florida.
xuenchen
Big Labor, ‘looking for revenge,’ expects to dump $300 million into 2014 elections
LouisCypher
xuenchen
Big Labor, ‘looking for revenge,’ expects to dump $300 million into 2014 elections
Revenge? They going to take out adds against themselves for their own crappy decisions over the past decades? Maybe they get start by getting 'revenge' on their own leadeship who put them in this fix as they vote at VW showed that many of the nay voters stated that they did not want to end up like Detroit due to poor policy by the union.
buster2010
You may want to check your facts. It wasn't the Unions that killed Detroit it was Reagan and the big three that killed Detroit. Reagan waged war on the unions and the big three kept building gas guzzlers during the gas shortage. The unions voted to cut their pay to help the automobile companies and the companies still went under because they wouldn't change their policies. Lay the blame where it really belongs.
Unions have a massive influence in elections.
LouisCypher
buster2010
You may want to check your facts. It wasn't the Unions that killed Detroit it was Reagan and the big three that killed Detroit. Reagan waged war on the unions and the big three kept building gas guzzlers during the gas shortage. The unions voted to cut their pay to help the automobile companies and the companies still went under because they wouldn't change their policies. Lay the blame where it really belongs.
The unions and the automakers are both equally responsible for their own demise. One produced crappy cars and the other tried to sell them. I remember doing some work on my Malibu and found garbage in the door frame, you think the CEO stuffed that in there? As for the execs, they missed the boat on the shift to economy cars in the 70s and 80s. Maybe you should put your union pom poms down.
buster2010
The unions have no influence as to what kind of cars the companies made that was the companies fault. So maybe you should take your anti union blinders off.
And where is the proof of this "garbage".
itizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a US constitutional law case, in which the United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political independent expenditures by corporations, associations, or labor unions
brice
RELAX......THE SOURCE OF XUENCHEN'S ARTICLE IS "THE WISCONSIN REPORTER".
LOOK'S LIKE THE KOCH BROTHER'S ARE GETTING SCARED!
brice
RELAX......THE SOURCE OF XUENCHEN'S ARTICLE IS "THE WISCONSIN REPORTER".
LOOK'S LIKE THE KOCH BROTHER'S ARE GETTING SCARED!
marg6043
reply to post by xuenchen
I guess the party of the Unions as the democrats once used to be call it has gotten nothing but crap from Mr. hope and change, I got the feeling that they are going to do this just to make sure that another Democrat do not get their feet into the white house.
edit on 24-2-2014 by marg6043 because: (no reason given)
marg6043Well I guess we will have to wait and see, but remember it was under Bush that they got the bailout not Obama if I am no mistaken neo.