Sunday, April 13, 2008
Unions - and the election
They are certainly investing their money; err; someones money...
Kimberley A. Strassel writes in the Wall Street Journal:
"This election is their best shot in a half-century of making over Washington. Not everyone is thrilled with a Clinton or an Obama, but this matters little next to the big prize. As Gerald McEntee, the savvy head of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, succinctly put it, Big Labor is looking for a 'trifecta' – the Oval Office, the House and a filibuster-proof Senate. And after that, the biggest rewrite of labor law in modern America.
'This is an all-in bet for them in 2008,' says Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee, a group that fights down in the trenches against coercive union power. 'As market cycles go, they're in their peak, we're in our trough, and they're looking for a clear two-year run' in an all-Democrat Washington."
