Public-Employees Union Now Leads All Groups in Independent Election Outlays.

[zeitgeist]

Your tax dollars at work folks.  Of course only supporting those who have your best interest at heart.   

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303339504575566481761790288.html

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending.

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Some critics say public-sector unions are funded by what is essentially taxpayer cash, since member salaries, and therefore union dues, come directly from state budgets.

"Public-sector unions have a guaranteed source of revenue—you and me as taxpayers," said Glenn Spencer, executive director of the Workforce Freedom Initiative at the Chamber of Commerce.

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Because the union no longer needs to use volunteer donations to pay for attack ads, it has more money left in its political action committee to donate directly to candidates. AFSCME has donated a total $2.2 million directly to Democratic candidates in this election cycle, including nearly $100,000 this week to the re-election campaigns of 57 House and Senate candidates.

The union has also donated a total of $5 million to the Democratic Governors Association and Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, making it the top donor to the Democrats' efforts to win gubernatorial and state-legislative races. It's also the top donor to Patriot Majority, a leading Democratic outside group that is running ads to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other congressional Democrats.

News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, is one of the larger corporate donors on the other side of the ledger, and has donated $1.25 million to the Republican Governors Association and $1 million to the Chamber of Commerce.

Yup and you pay you will pay their bloated pensions too and you will like it!!  No clawbacks will be allowed. 

Surprise

[NHSparky]

From the same side of the political spectrum that says if a company exercises its First Amendment rights by making political contributions to BOTH political parties, as opposed to the overwhelming percentage of union donations that find their way into Democrat coffers, it's somehow subverting the political process.

[Wretched Excess]

in the private sector, unions are dying.

in the public sector, they may be thriving

[DumbAss Tanker]

AFSCME dumped a lot of money here early on, it doesn't seem to have done the Dems much good.  A puppy smiles ever time a Dem dollar goes down the shitter.

[zeitgeist]

in the private sector, unions are dying.

in the public sector, they may be thriving

Amazing isn't it.  The public unions buy politicians who then vote them largess from the public treasury.  And they have a virtual monopoly thanks to arcane labor laws.  Sweet.    They don't pay Social Security, their pensions are guranteed with your tax dollars. Just one reason why Public Unions should be outlawed. 

[TVDOC]

Amazing isn't it.  The public unions buy politicians who then vote them largess from the public treasury.  And they have a virtual monopoly thanks to arcane labor laws.  Sweet.    They don't pay Social Security, their pensions are guranteed with your tax dollars. Just one reason why Public Unions should be outlawed. 

A classic "feed-back loop"......the taxpayer pays their salaries, the union takes a cut, and feeds it to the Democrats, who give it back to them in raises and posh benefits.........all the while exempting them from the programs that they foist on the rest of us.......

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[zeitgeist]

A classic "feed-back loop"......the taxpayer pays their salaries, the union takes a cut, and feeds it to the Democrats, who give it back to them in raises and posh benefits.........all the while exempting them from the programs that they foist on the rest of us.......

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Just caught John Stossel on Fox News going on about this topic, actually came in in the middle of it. Will have to see it it rebroadcasts or is on the net. 

[zeitgeist]

Hum .... eventually everything is on youtube I guess

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