Right-to-work goes down in flames in Illinois House with zero yes votes

[mopinko]

Source: chicago sun times

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s desires to have right-to-work in Illinois went down in flames in the House on Thursday, gaining zero yes votes in a fiery debate Democrats aimed squarely at the governor.

The vote tally was 0 yes votes, 72 no votes and 37 voting present, offering a blistering rebuke to Rauner’s anti-union agenda. A handful of Republicans went for a walk during the vote, not publicly falling on one side or another.

Republicans dismissed the vote as political theater even as Democrats pit workers’ rights against corporate greed and called Rauner “divisive” for touring the state and essentially asking local towns to kick unions out.



Read more: http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/7/71/607377/right-work-goes-down-flames-illinois-house-zero-yes-votes

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nice try asshole.
this guy is gonna get nowhere as long as mike madigan breathes.

[Suich]

1. "Right to work" is soooo misleading!

It's the opposite of what it sounds like!

Good for Illinois!

[madinmaryland]

20. I call it right to work for less

[YOHABLO]

28. Much like ''Clean Coal''

[AllyCat]

42. Whenever politicians call a bill "Right to...."

no matter what comes next in the wording, THAT is the right they are planning to infringe.

[Beauregard]

57. Republicans are masters of euphemism.

Consider their use of the word "reform," as in "welfare reform," or "entitlement reform." There is also "fixing," as in "fixing social security."

[SoapBox]

2. Right to Work = YOU have NO Rights.

[lobodons]

3. They must have gotten the memo

They must have gotten the memo that wages for ALL are higher for ALL in states where there is NO "Right to Work".

[shenmue]

4. Ha ha!

[Thekaspervote]

5. Ruiner is my name and ruining the middle class is my game

Hey ruiner...why don't you just go away! You go Illinois! Kick em to the curb

[murielm99]

7. My brother calls him that, too.

I will have to remember to use it more.

[stopwastingmymoney]

43. I believe Norman Goldman coined that one nt

:chuckle

[SheilaT]

6. Whoa!

Many years ago I started my working life in Arizona. At the time it was one of only two Right to Work states. I do not recall the other one. But what we all knew was that as a consequence, our wages in Arizona were lower than in other states. I then worked for Ma Bell, the telephone company. We were unionizes, CWA, Communication Workers of America. In 1967 there was a strike. It was the line workers, as I recall, who were actually striking, and I have never forgotten who crossed the picket lines and who didn't.

[Hoppy]

13. 1999, teachers' strike in Jersey City.

Some crossed the line. To this day, no other teacher says as much as "hello" to them.

[LiberalArkie]

24. I think it was probably Arkansas..

Edit to add, I worked for Western Electric and walked 2 times for Bell System. The SWBT never honored our picket lines. But when the contract was signed, we got .5% increase the operators got (I think) 10% and the rest of the SWBT got around 5%. The operators and others at the office would just walk right through the picket line every time.

[murielm99]

8. Three cheers for Madigan!!!

[world wide wally]

9. See, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan?

And right next door to you

[Kevin from WI]

10. Sure, rub it in why don't you. Thanks

[world wide wally]

11. Wisconsin used to be cool. You guys got some work cut out for you

[mopinko]

27. i had a chance to get some cheap cigarettes from indiana.

decided that i hated indiana gov, and approved of cook county gov. if i am going to engage in a stupid habit, i will put my money where my mouth is.

[etherealtruth]

34. Michigan has been over-run by right wing lunatics

Somehow ( ) the state has voted for the Democratic Presidential candidate since 1992, has two Democratic senators .... yet the state legislature is over-run by knuckle dragging right wing lunatics

The report credits gerrymandered maps in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin with allowing Republicans to overcome a 1.1 million popular-vote deficit. In Ohio, for instance, Republicans won 12 out of 16 House races “despite voters casting only 52 percent of their vote for Republican congressional candidates.” The situation was even more egregious to the north. “Michiganders cast over 240,000 more votes for Democratic congressional candidates than Republicans, but still elected a 9-5 Republican delegation to Congress.”
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/17/1459991/rslc-gerrymandering-house/

[world wide wally]

36. I don't think Michigan is an actual functioning democracy anymore

[etherealtruth]

37. nor do I

[cui bono]

12. Wow!

I'm actually shocked at the Cons' behavior. Taking a walk instead of voting against the people? Maybe they're starting to get a clue.

[INdemo]

14. Another Koch Bro's sponsored bill goes down in flames

For states that have a Republican Governor, the Koch Brothers own them.

I bet it was very difficult for the Right Wing rag,(the Sun Times) to report this

[City Lights]

15. Republicans are cowards.

I'm glad it went down in flames.

[mopinko]

16. my only worry

i know at some point madigan will want something. or be pinned in the corner.
ruiner has been shooting his mouth off since election day. there will be something HE really wants.
and then....

[turbinetree]

17. Yeah, scab legislation dies

[landolfi]

18. Rauner is a paper tiger

The ONLY reason we got stuck with this sociopath is that Quinn is probably the worst Democratic politician and campaigner since Jimmy Carter or maybe John Kerry. Actually, I think George McGovern is probably the only one worse than Quinn in history. To all my Illinois Democratic friends who started gnashing their teeth last November, the House results told a very different story, namely that Rauner had no chance of doing anything he can't do unilaterally. And that isn't much, as Quinn's time in office showed. So Rauner is a lot of lip and not much else. And he has to live with that wife of his, yikes. She's about as sincere as a bad toupee.

[mopinko]

25. quinn's place on the ticket w blaggo was a joke.

a joke on the people of illinois.
but i have heard nothing about the republican dirty trick that kept a lot of chgo voters, quinn's base, from voting on election day.

but really, blaggo took his populist creds, never thinking he would end up at the top of the ticket. i had zero desire to knock on doors and be quinn's face. i am not alone.

[landolfi]

38. Amen

Quinn comes off like a well-intentioned bumbler. I don't think he is, but on the other hand I'm more confident that he was in.over his head than i am he was a good leader, and he couldnt seem to take advantage of a majority in the statehouse. His campaign, like Schneider's, focused more on why not to elect the opponent and nothing about accomplishments. Even with that, Ruiner had the charm of a lead ingot, though he at least looked angry as do sociopaths, angry at how much inferior and incompetent everyone else is. I thought people would see through it, but apparently he benefited from the contrast. Quinn always seemed to have this dumb smile on his face like he didn't understand the gravity of what he was facing. Another Democratic defeat snatched from the jaws of victory!

[mopinko]

40. i think he is a bumbler.

and campaigns of "dont elect the other guy" so very rarely succeed.

i think he is a truly good and committed man. but he missed a lot of the lessons of kindergarten about how to play w others.
the illinois aca site really disappointed me. it was bungled from day one, in part by quinn's refusal to take the good advice that he paid for. it should have been the best of all the state sites w the human tech capital that we have in illinois. but no...

[rpannier]

46. I read an article about Illinois politics that was rather enlightening

It referred to Illinois politics as being the worst in the country
There were like 8 state senators who are third generation from the district they represent
I think one had a great uncle, a grandfather and then them

In some ways being governor is like being president
It's rare that an incumbent state rep loses

[JohnnyRingo]

19. Made my day

I'm going to play it safe and make this the last news post I read today.

Thanx for posting

[closeupready]

21. oops, never mind - confusing right-to-work with at-will.

[KamaAina]

22. In your face, Rauner!

[marym625]

23. Yay Mike!

[Initech]

26. Excellent!!!!!!!

[alp227]

29. Quite telling how not a single Republican voted for this legislation.

They must know the experience of their neighbors in the Badger state.

[mopinko]

30. they also know the speaker.

in springfield, whichever party you are in, you piss off mike madigan at your risk.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

31. gooooood!!!!!!!

I hate those deceptive names on legislation, or products, or titles.

[KansDem]

32. As it should

[DWinNJ]

33. Isn't that like ...

Right to work isn't that like Religious Freedom Restoration?

[Sgt Preston]

35. Finally some good news for a change. nt

[polynomial]

41. If political people did their jobs

If those elected officials did their jobs America would not need Unions.

The first amendment describes the basic elements of a Union.

The right to freedom of speech, the right to assemble peacefully, the right to address and submit grievances to the government, the right to free press as in this blog, and of course the right to religious belief.

Right now my own personal experience is waiting for a determination in a grievance complaint to the Labor Department and OSHA reference to a deliberate action by the Union Pacific Railroad Company to avoid reporting my medical injury accurately, plus the local Safety Service Management Team deliberately avoided taking responsibility to aid in my recovery.

Yes, my documentation proves Chicago Service Safety Management personal deliberately lied about actions in my injury causing a poor recovery.

With that said, signal this as a clear warning to those unfortunate in the latest derail in Pennsylvania, beware the railroad will sacrifice managers to lie rather than pay out in the injury responsibility. Anyone, including the engineer in that horrible derail having safety issues is welcome to my help and documentation.

My injury complaint shows how the Union Pacific Chicago Service safety management team deliberately clouded my injury to avoid reporting an accurate data base that will likely be used by national insurance companies like the United Health Care Company largely connected to the Medicare system, this data base will make an unreliable, or fraudulent Health Care system.

[lonestarnot]

44. Now there is a celebration! Are people waking up?

[mopinko]

45. this is the land of the deep blue.

maybe we elected this buffoon, but he has a very liberal legislature to get past.

[lonestarnot]

50. I am envious of your color.

[mopinko]

51. it is a great feeling.

we work hard at it, tho.

[lonestarnot]

53. I've nearly worked myself into the ground and will never give up, but these fuckers over here are

nuts.

[mopinko]

54. def crazier out there in the red.

spent some time in wis last year. it was a trip.

[Still In Wisconsin]

47. Can you lend your cheesehead friends to the north a little common sense now?

Pleeeease? The Packers may have beaten the Bears last fall but you're kicking our ass in everything else. Well done FIBs (FIB = Friendly Illinois Buddy for me )

[mopinko]

48. i did my best.

spent some time and money trying to take back wis last year. sigh.

[Still In Wisconsin]

55. I really appreciate that.

I'm sorry we couldn't get the job done on the ground.

[mopinko]

58. the talk radio is insane up there.

i know wis has a fine public radio system, but damn. the drek on the air there bout killed me.

[Still In Wisconsin]

59. It is truly awful.

As for our fine public radio system, Walker has cut 100% of state funding in his latest budget. Republicans in the State legislature have reportedly restored 50% of what Walker cut. When Republicans restoring part of a cut from the governor are your best hope, things have gotten bad.

[The Stranger]

49. Explain to me again how this governor was elected? Why don't Democrats ever get elected governor in

solid blood-red states? Wouldn't that be the analogue to this?

[mopinko]

52. election fraud.

no small part of rauner's victory was a republican dirty trick that fouled up the voting in chicago.
dimwit election judges believed phone calls saying they were not needed. dont think the number that gave up would have saved quinn's hide, but it didnt help.

quinn was a crappy candidate. he is just a doofus. he scraped by the first time because people were tired of the chaos. but he didnt do enough to distinguish himself. the smell of rod blagojevich finally caught up to him.

i could see it happening in a red state. i think that is sorta how claire macaskill got elected.

[Beauregard]

56. This is a very nice surprise. nt

[lovemydog]

60. excellent