{"id":10848,"date":"2011-08-11T19:45:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T23:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2011-08-11T19:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T23:45:55","slug":"voters-kill-the-messenger-when-it%e2%80%99s-a-union-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10848\/voters-kill-the-messenger-when-it%e2%80%99s-a-union-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Kill the Messenger When It\u2019s a Union Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/labor-came-up-short-in-wisconsin-what-does-it-mean\/2011\/08\/10\/gIQAujXq6I_blog.html?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Fix<\/em><\/a> notes that Big Labor is looking awfully small in recent election cycles.\u00a0 Citing organized labor\u2019s unsuccessful primary attacks on Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), and this week\u2019s failure to recall enough Wisconsin Republicans to take back the state senate, one Democratic strategist speaks the obvious \u2013 if anonymous \u2013 truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe unmistakable lesson is that every time labor makes it about labor, they lose,\u201d said one senior Democratic strategist granted anonymity to speak candidly. \u201cIt\u2019s a messenger problem.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With public employee unions eating up ever larger amounts of taxpayer money, it\u2019s no wonder the majority of non-union members are revolting at the thought of strengthening labor\u2019s hand.\u00a0 In reality, the unnamed source mentioned above doesn\u2019t quite draw the right lesson from Big Labor\u2019s election problem.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just the messenger \u2013 it\u2019s the message of more money in a tight recession that\u2019s the problem.\u00a0 Unless unions get on-board with the national belt-tightening, they\u2019ll experience a lot more rejections in the elections to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fix notes that Big Labor is looking awfully small in recent election cycles.\u00a0 Citing organized labor\u2019s unsuccessful primary attacks on Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), and this week\u2019s failure to recall enough Wisconsin Republicans to take back the state senate, one Democratic strategist speaks the obvious \u2013 if anonymous \u2013 truth. \u201cThe unmistakable lesson is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,737,2377,419,1500],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-labor","tag-blanche-lincoln","tag-public-employee","tag-unions","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10852,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions\/10852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}