MacIver News Service | July 7, 2011
[Madison, Wisc…] A national labor union dumped $778 thousand into the We Are Wisconsin PAC just one week before recall elections take place, according to finance documents reviewed by the MacIver News Service.
The AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education Treasury Account sent the money on Tuesday, July 5, according to Government Accountability Records.
This followed on the heels of another contribution from a Washington-based union. The “AFSCME – WI Special Account” sent $350 thousand to We Are Wisconsin on July 1.
With protests in Madison over the recent collective bargaining law waning, the unions’ have shifted their energy into the senate recall elections. Government employee unions want to recall six Republican senators, hoping to give Democrats control of that chamber. Although that would not be sufficient to undo the law, it could give liberals momentum as they seek to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker next year. Three of the 14 senate Democrats who fled the state earlier in the year in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to block passage of the law are also facing recalls in the next few weeks.
First in a series of reports by the MacIver News Service
Posted in News | July 7, 2011 | | 8 Comments
If a majority of the people of Wisconsin agree with Scott Walker’s attack on union rights, why has his approval rating hit the skids? Why is the new republican majority threatened by recall elections? If they’re so sure they represent the “will of the people”, why are special interests backing phony candidates in an effort to split the democratic recall vote?
Hang in there Wisconsin! You are heading in the right direction! Unions were once about the little guy…now they just take money from the little guy and destroy our educational and free market systems.
The union hypocrisy is nauseating. The teacher unions here in Wisconsin are corrupt, just like their brethren teacher unions in Atlanta that were recently exposed for cheating on student test scores for the last 10 years! Unfortunately, it is the students that always suffer at the hands of greedy teacher unions. If you want to pay back the unions for rotting your child’s mind with sub-standard education, then vote against any Democrat politician put before you on election day!
And how much have the Koch brothers and others representing anti-union, anti-middle class special interests contributed to the republicans?
sandie Reply:
July 13th, 2011 at 6:45 PM
I think you confuse the puppetmaster Soros, with Koch. You must get a truly enlightened life instead of repeating the talking points of the D’s. You NEED someone to take care of you, I take care of myself and can think for myself and come to my own conclusions. You’ll never be rich; keep up the class warfare.
And much have the Koch brothers and others representing anti-union, anti-middle class special interests contributed to the republicans?
I hope the Unions members see this, they won’t. Put as much money in it as you want Unions thugs, you can’t fight the people, they voted.
AFL-CIO = Anti Free Legislature- Communists IN Office. May the ‘Middle class workers create their own jobs. We do not need them.