{"id":7453,"date":"2010-10-22T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2010-10-22T07:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:53:47","slug":"so-which-group-is-spending-the-most-this-campaign-public-employee-union-afscme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7453\/so-which-group-is-spending-the-most-this-campaign-public-employee-union-afscme\/","title":{"rendered":"So Which Group Actually Spends the Most on the 2010 Election? Public Employee Union AFSCME"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama has consistently failed to gain political traction with unseemly attacks against everyone from former President Bush to Fox News to John Boehner’s tan.\u00a0 So Obama redirected his aim using illogical and baseless attacks against business groups whom he accuses<\/a> of attempting to “sway elections” through sinister election spending.”\u00a0 David Axelrod, Obama’s top political guru, has labeled election spending a “threat to our democracy,” and when pressed to identify a shred of evidence supporting Obama’s allegation of illegal foreign campaign spending benefiting Republican candidates could only reply<\/a>, “do you have any evidence that it’s not?”<\/p>\n

So which group has actually spent the most to influence this year’s Congressional elections?\u00a0 The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a 1.6 million member union of public employees.\u00a0 According to The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, AFSCME has now spent $87.5 million, which outdistances the demonized Chamber of Commerce by a cool $12.5 million.\u00a0 Of the top five spenders, in fact, three of them are big labor unions (the other two being the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and National Education Association (NEA)).<\/p>\n

One would hope for more ethical behavior from a President who based his entire 2008 campaign on bringing “change” to our toxic political discourse.\u00a0 What will be his campaign theme in 2012?\u00a0 Instead of “hope and change,” he’s building a legacy of “hypocrisy and impropriety.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama has consistently failed to gain political traction with unseemly attacks against everyone from former President Bush to Fox News to John Boehner’s tan.\u00a0 So Obama redirected his aim using illogical and baseless attacks against business groups whom he accuses of attempting to “sway elections” through sinister election spending.”\u00a0 David Axelrod, Obama’s top political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,1982,1980,1193,84,1981,1983,77,151,24,477,38,28],"class_list":["post-7453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-afscme","tag-axelrod","tag-campaign","tag-congress","tag-face-the-nation","tag-finance","tag-harry-reid","tag-nea","tag-obama","tag-seiu","tag-senate","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7456,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions\/7456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}