Remember before the ’08 election, when the left and media (pardon the redundancy) stood, like Captain Renault, and bellowed “I’m shocked, shocked, that you would enforce an ideological purity test” (against the “Override Six”, six GOP legislators that stabbed Governor Pawlenty in the back and voted to overrride his veto of a huge spending bill, thereby handing control of the state’s finances over to a bunch of irresponsible, wanton DFLers)?
Either does the DFL. They are in the process of trying to expunge bad-think from the Mother Party (emphasis added):
Minnesota’s leading state-worker union is endorsing [Debbie] White, a Winona City Councilwoman, for the House District 31A seat Pelowski now holds, said a spokesman for AFSCME Council 5. But a top Winona DFLer, Sen. Sharon Erickson Ropes, said she’s backing Pelowski.
The dueling endorsements fuel an emerging intra-party battle among DFLers in District 31A, which covers the cities of Winona and Houston and southern Winona County.
AFSCME officials and Pelowski traded jabs Wednesday, each accusing the other of lying about the union’s endorsement screening process. AFSCME leaders also took aim at Pelowski for opposing a tax increase to balance the state budget in 2009.
DFL to its minions: “YOU VILL CLOSE RANKS”.
(Via Gary Gross at LFR)
Mitch,
Mathematics is the easiest way to explain this:
AFSCME ≠ DFL
I could bust out Venn diagrams which would certainly show membership overlap, but I think the above should suffice.
AFSCME ≠ DFL
But it doesn’t have to be complete equality for the point to stand.
And while a Venn diagram of membership would be interesting, I have a better idea. You know those Tofte-style maps that show the states by the size of their electoral votes, where Manhattan is a huge goiter on the east coast and California is a huge hunchback on the west? Try that with teh DFL, only use it to depict the political and financial clout of interests within the party.
The MFT, AFSCME and MAPE would be (Steve Irwin on) YUUUUGE.