{"id":5628,"date":"2010-06-09T19:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2010-06-09T19:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T23:16:27","slug":"union-leaders-terrible-at-spending-other-peoples-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5628\/union-leaders-terrible-at-spending-other-peoples-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Leaders Terrible at Spending Other People&#8217;s Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard the horror stories and seen the cringe-inducing statistics about public employee pensions and the unions that make them insolvent.\u00a0 Now, organized labor provides yet another example of just how bad its leaders are at managing other people\u2019s money; this time, their own members\u2019 dues.<\/p>\n<p>Because Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) did not support a public option in ObamaCare, the dons of American labor decided to make an example out of her to other left-of-center Democrats.\u00a0 Their hate totaled $10 million of union members\u2019 dues spent to defeat her in the Arkansas Democratic primary.\u00a0 <em>And they lost<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>True to form, <a href=\"http:\/\/dyn.politico.com\/printstory.cfm?uuid=1DA28AB3-18FE-70B2-A8A0E349FD0B0F49 \" target=\"_blank\">they are lashing out<\/a>.\u00a0 In fact, the political director of the SEIU issued a warning to other Lincoln-type Democrats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe&#8217;ll see if Blanche Lincoln is made a better senator for having to answer to working Arkansans over these past few weeks. And if you are [Democrats] Larry Kissell (N.C.-08) or Zack Space (Ohio-18) or Mike McMahon (N.Y.-13) or Michael Arcuri (N.Y.-24) or another candidate who stopped advocating for the needs of working families once elected, the labor movement is going to be at the side of those voters who demand change,\u201d said SEIU national political director Jon Youngdahl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These people are crazy.\u00a0 But then again, you\u2019re an American taxpayer so you probably already knew that.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Politico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard the horror stories and seen the cringe-inducing statistics about public employee pensions and the unions that make them insolvent.\u00a0 Now, organized labor provides yet another example of just how bad its leaders are at managing other people\u2019s money; this time, their own members\u2019 dues. Because Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) did not support [&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":[738,737,1346,1375,477,1051],"class_list":["post-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arkansas","tag-blanche-lincoln","tag-democratic-primary","tag-organized-labor","tag-seiu","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628","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=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5632,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions\/5632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}