{"id":9119,"date":"2011-04-01T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9119"},"modified":"2011-04-01T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T18:32:53","slug":"police-fire-flee-gop-back-big-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9119\/police-fire-flee-gop-back-big-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Police &#038; Fire Flee GOP, Back Big Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Politico<\/em> highlights how the budget battles between the Tea Party and Big Labor are threatening to shift firefighters and police officers into the Democratic Party, setting up a dilemma for fiscal conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0411\/52359.html \" target=\"_blank\">blowback from unionized first responders<\/a> is being felt by Republicans in Ohio, New York, and Wisconsin.\u00a0 In the latter, Republican Governor Scott Walker tried to exempt police and fire from the ban on public employees collectively bargaining, but they still refused to follow his order to remove protesting teachers from the state capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, <em>Politico<\/em> quotes one police union leader saying his members are going to hold pro-union Republicans \u201caccountable\u201d for the cuts being made to balance state budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it\u2019s a different kind of accountability than one based on sustainable funding formulas.\u00a0 If the GOP is serious about reining in runaway government spending, it\u2019s going to have to take on all public employee unions, and demand lower compensations (e.g. pensions, buy-outs, overtime, retirement eligibility, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see who has the stomach to make <em>that<\/em> case anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico highlights how the budget battles between the Tea Party and Big Labor are threatening to shift firefighters and police officers into the Democratic Party, setting up a dilemma for fiscal conservatives. The blowback from unionized first responders is being felt by Republicans in Ohio, New York, and Wisconsin.\u00a0 In the latter, Republican Governor Scott [&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":[646,2544,1097,1186,1588,1201,761,334,2412],"class_list":["post-9119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-democratic-party","tag-firefighters","tag-fiscal-conservative","tag-labor","tag-pension","tag-police","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-republican-party","tag-scott-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119","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=9119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9121,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions\/9121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}