Unions Say They Plan To Spend $400 Million To Help Reelect Obama…
And if that doesn’t work they will start cracking skulls (a favorite union pastime).
WASHINGTON (AP) – Unions say they are gearing up to spend more than $400 million to help re-elect President Barack Obama and lift Democrats this election year in a fight for labor’s survival.
Under siege in state legislatures around the country – and fearing the consequences of a Republican in the White House – union leaders say they have little choice as they try to beat back GOP efforts to curb collective bargaining rights or limit their ability to collect dues.
“People are digging deeper,” said Larry Scanlon, political director of the country’s largest public workers union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. “If Republicans take over the presidency, Congress and enough state legislatures, unions will be out of business, pure and simple.”
Scanlon’s union was the biggest overall spender in the 2010 midterm elections, doling out about $93 million to help state and federal candidates, mostly Democrats. This year, AFSCME is expected to spend at least $100 million or more on political action, including television advertising, phone banks and member canvassing. The effort is to help the president, Democrats running for the House and Senate, gubernatorial candidates and key state lawmakers.
With increased spending planned by other labor groups, including the powerful Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO, unions are likely to top the $400 million they spent to help elect Obama four years ago.
And Obama has the nerve to complain about outside money trying to buy elections.
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at 11:04 am | 
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Yes, by golly they’re absolutely 100% right. He really has done wonders for the job market. He singlehandedly made the jobless rate go down by wrecking the economy for long enough so that millions of otherwise eligible job seekers will just give up and drop out, thus making the unemployment rate go down.
Kinda like Guam. Only more practical.
Yup, 400 mil of their, oops, union member’s money nicely laundered right into O’tonedef’s bony fingers.
If you belong to a union, you support Obama. Get over it or do something about it.
They have a lot of spare cash on hand, don’t they?
They could probably afford to pay higher taxes.
If the ‘tough guy’ homo with the beard and tats had any brains, he’d get himself an agent and go after residuals on this photo – I know I’ve seen it at least a 100 times.
Looks like they’re going to waste 400 million dollars.
Anti-American Union workers….Fuck the country, were is my paycheck?
America’s kneecaps are unavailable for comment
More stimulus money huh?
Union idiots! Absolute Jackasses!
Who are you going to blame the high gas prices on?
Who do you blame the continued unemployment and job losses on??
Blind, moronic, jackass union members…that’s who!
Make Union dues voluntary.
The unions will pay the New Black Panthers to “protect” the polling places to make sure only The Few will be allowed to vote. And, Eric Holder will refuse to do anything about them because they are protected by the Obama administration.
Unions increasingly are resembling the Taliban, in leadership and membership.
Unions are totaly corupt and they support thotaly corupt politicians
Any organization who has $400 million on hand to “donate” to a political campaign shouldn’t have $400 million in discretionary funds to donate to a political campaign.
Union “dues” must become voluntary. Until that time that they do, unions will continue to be a money-laundering wing of the Democratic (and perhaps the Communist) party.
I suggest anyone living near a Black Panther Polling Place hangout get yourself some camo right now: an Obama button. Keep it in the garage till you need it.
You can spend $1 Billion and he won’t be re-elected. He’s finished. I can assure you, there are Catholic aka Christian union members who won’t touch the Muslim for anything. He wrote his political obituary with his attacks on Christianity.
Hey Barry, we are a Christian Nation. I remember you said, “We aren’t a Christian Nation.”
Now doesn’t that sound like something a “Muslim, oh, I mean, Christian” would say?
These unions need to be investigated for misappropriating union funds and have their tax exempt status taken away.
I agree with bitterclinger, make sure you bring your iPhones with you when you vote. Get photos.
Why shouldn’t they spend $400M? The porch monkey has given them billions….
Let’s get our terms straight. You can’t spend money that isn’t yours. If someone gives you money to hand to another person, you are not spending. You are redistributing. From the poorer classes to one of the richest men on the planet.
At this point, who hasn’t made their mind up about the election?
Either you’re a Dem, and you will vote Obama, regardless of what he does or says,
Or, you’re voting AGAINST Obama.
If you call yourself an “independent” or “undecided” you should not be allowed to vote.
…and 40% of that $400,000,000 is being hijacked from union members who are or lean to Republicans. Talk about justice NOT!
Unions for the most part are simply legalized organized crime. You know.. Just like politicians from Chicago…
And the stupid get more ignorant everyday.
Go ahead herd, do your thing, follow your mob leaders and become Socialist with your daddy.
kind of seems like the unions are SuperPAC’s huh….
As long as those commies stay out of the South, I don’t particularly give a rats ass what those losers do.
Are you kidding the plan is in the basket not only the money to try and buy election but the union thugs outside the polling places to escort you to vote the proper way.
Who you going to complain to the Holder Justice Department? That case will be unwinnable to those lackies with documentation, stills, videos and eye witnesses. and police testamony. The media, will only defend the right for Obama supporters to ensure a fair and honest voting experience (as long as you vote the Obama way) if not a bout of disipline to improve your behavior.
The fix is already in.
Why aren’t unions crying bloody murder over Obama’s plan to tax dividends at 44%? Isn’t the money they spend on political campaigns and lavish pension funds almost entirely dividend dependent?