"Public-Employees Union Now Leads All Groups in Independent Election Outings", makes the front page of Friday's WSJ. Under "Notable and Quotable" in today's WSJ, Mark McKinnon, writing for the 'Daily Beast', says:
A record $87.5 million has been spent by one union, the AFSCME, to elect Democrats. Paid not by voluntary contributions from its members, but by forced union dues from workers--who are paid by taxpayers...
Contrary to what Obama and the Democrats would have us believe, the Tea Party is largely fueled by small-dollar donations from American citizens in amounts of $200 or less. Beyond being untrue and unproven, the Obama money charges against the Republicans are completely hypocritical. The guy who promised to "change Washington" completely reversed his promise during the campaign to abide by the limits of public financing. The Obama campaign spent almost $1 billion--and $400 million was spent by outside groups on his behalf, most of which did not disclose their donors. Now we discover unions are the largest outside spenders in this election, not the Chamber of Commerce or groups tied to Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie."
The largest union in the Peoria public sector is the AFSCME. When you consider that the Democrats control the Peoria County Board, thanks should go to us few conservatives on the County Board trying to control risks with OPM. With my decision not to run for a fourth term, it becomes very important that Karrie Alms, Paul Rosenbohm and Jim Fennell be elected to join newcomer Mary Ardapple to counter balance the liberal Democrats now running the board.
At least one candidate for the County Board, Randy Stevens, a hard 6 Democrat, has, under instruction by the Democrat Central Committee, run the dirtiest political campaign by mail that I have seen since Democrat Union Organizer Linda Uphoff's dirty campaign against me four years ago. Fortunately, for the community, I won and it will be fortunate for the community when Fennell defeats Stevens, 7 days from now.
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