Big Labor pledges it will go all in, again, in its drive to knock out its top political adversaries in 2014. And one of the biggest targets is Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, hero to conservatives, bane of the left for his public-sector collective bargaining reforms. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wants to make the minimum wage the No. 1 issue this election year. His Big Labor pals are willing to spend heavily to go after five Republican governors, including Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, who have cost unions some of their power base over the past few years.
Michael Podhorzer,
political director of the AFL-CIO, in a New York Times piece last
week said the nation’s labor unions look to spend at least $300 million going
after Republicans in this fall’s elections.
Much of that spending is expected to be dropped on four industrial
battlegrounds — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin,
traditional union strongholds. Big Labor
also wants Florida.
“Their
hope is to not only oust the Republican governors of those states, but also to
flip several of the legislative chambers. In all five states the Republicans
control both houses,” the Times piece notes…..To Read More….
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