NYT OP-ED: Republicans Sure Love to Hate Unions

[Omaha Steve]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/opinion/republicans-sure-love-to-hate-unions.html?_r=0

Thomas B. Edsall NOV. 18, 2014

A paradox of American politics is that Republicans take organized labor more seriously than Democrats do.

The right sees unions as a mainstay of the left, a crucial source of cash, campaign manpower and votes.

“Unions are the largest player in American politics and they will be for some time,” Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, declared in March at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Fourteen million Americans have to pay union dues. If they average $500, and that is a low estimate, that’s a $7 billion slush fund for the left.”

Democrats are happy to get labor’s votes and money, but they have done little to revitalize the besieged movement.

FULL story at llink.

[Bandit]

1. 7 billion, isn't that pocket money for the Koch brothers?

When over a hundred billion is being spent on mid-term elections, 7 billion doesn't even make a ripple, and besides the fact that more than ninety percent of union dues goes for other things than political donations..

[lark]

8. Of course, he knows that, but he's a typical lying every time his mouth opens Repug.

He's pushing the meme about unions to cover up the Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, etc. He is trying the usual tactic of "it's all the same", when it's truly not. Dems have no one spending the money to steal the elections like the Kochs do. You notice all their and Americans for Prosperity ads are total hit pieces. They never actually cover policies or ideas, just fear, fear, fear.

He's such a tool!

[B Calm]

2. The one true reason is, they want cheap labor!

That's why they are called Cheap Labor Cons!

[Starry Messenger]

3. Anyone who tears down unions carries water for Republicans.

[Omaha Steve]

4. Kick

[Octafish]

5. Always after the election with them.

Traitors. Warmongers. Unconstitutional Domestic Spies. Whatever, the New York Times holds up the story for ... Republicans.

[cloudbase]

6. They hate labor unions,

but love their own unions.

[moondust]

7. Kill the union, empower the tyrant.

Not that hard to understand.