Celebrating their own demise, conservatives and their
Republican representatives are enjoying the plummeting membership and spending by
our vilified public unions.
But, during their rabid pursuit and focus on destroying union
labor rights and political funding, did they ever stop to think who’ll fill
that lobbying gap?
jsonline: "The new leaders in lobbying spending at the Capitol are large business groups, which are more numerous than large unions."
But the local news coverage missed that point over and over.
Not to pick on WKOW, because everybody did it, this is what I saw across the board; no outrage over the now dominant business lobbyists:
It seems television news had time for just the first
sentence of the story:
"In just two years, spending by the state's public employee unions on lobbyists has plummeted from the summit of Wisconsin politics, a new report shows."
Scott Walker’s Act 10 completely took unions out of the equation:
"Act 10 sharply limited both the relevance and the fundraising ability of public employee unions in Wisconsin except those representing police officers and firefighters."
But that just helped anti-union simpletons make their faulty case
to their anti-union conservative voters. Gee, I wonder…now who’ll help fund our
politicians?
Powerline: The trend is obvious: when public sector unions don’t have the compulsion of the state behind them, their ranks will thin considerably. There is an important lesson here: not only did Scott Walker’s reforms strike an important blow for employee freedom, they also had the happy side-effect of depriving the unions of a large chunk of their funding, and therefore their ability to sway elections. So it is a win-win for everyone, except union bosses and the politicians they support.
Yee-ha, politicians are now funded by big business lobbyist:
The new leaders in lobbying spending at the Capitol are large business groups, which are more numerous than large unions.
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