Wisconsin and the Democractic Party

What no one in the mainstream media (New York Times, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc.) will report:

RealClearPolitics - Walker Changes Attitudes on Public Employee Unions: "A defeat in a state where public employee union bargaining was authorized in 1959 has national implications. Unions spent $400 million in the 2008 election cycle to elect Barack Obama and other Democrats. More than half of all union members nationally are public employees. Public employee unions insist that dues money be deducted from members' paychecks and sent directly to union treasuries. So in practice, public employee unions are a mechanism for the involuntary transfer of taxpayers' money to the Democratic Party. Walker's law ended this practice and gave public employees the choice of whether to pay union dues. The membership of AFSCME, the big union of state employees, fell from 62,818 to 28,785. That's what liberal columnist E.J. Dionne was referring to when he wrote last week that Walker's laws "sought to undermine one of the Democratic Party's main sources of organization." Dionne wants continued taxpayer financing of campaigns -- for his side only."

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