B. Daniel Blatt
GayPatriot
2/23/2011
Whereas various liberal commentators and left-of-center bloggers have contended, to borrow the mild language of CNN’s Roland S. Martin, that Governor Walker seeks to “to end the collective bargaining rights of the various public employees“, that Republican, in fact, in the words of Ed Morrissey proposes only “to limit collective bargaining to wages only — not policy and work environment issues — and to end the ‘closed shop’ in the government sector.”
Walker is not, as some have suggested, trying to bust unions, but merely standing up for the state’s taxpayers against public employee unions. And those unions, as Michael Barone reminds us, siphon money from taxpayers and into the hands of the Democrats:
Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money in this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.
It’s Barone, read the whole thing. Would the Democrats and their media allies be fighting so hard if Walker and his fellow elected Republicans weren’t challenging a mainstay of Democratic campaign finance? There is, as I noted before, a clear conflict of interest when public employee unions engaging in politicking…
Read the rest at GayPatriot
