{"id":27314,"date":"2012-04-09T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27314"},"modified":"2012-12-20T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:30:53","slug":"right-to-work-a-time-for-choosing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27314","title":{"rendered":"Right To Work: A Time For Choosing"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one issue where the GOP-led Legislature has dropped the ball this session, it’s in letting the “Right To Work” Amendment (henceforth RTW) proposal languish, apparently to die, in committee.<\/p>\n

Rumor coming from the Legislature is that the leadership is afraid that the unions will dump a ton <\/em>of money into Minnesota to fight legislators who support RTW. \u00a0 The fact is that the unions are facing a full-court press, with RTW legislation or related campaigns (like the Walker recall) going on in more states than ever before; they’re playing whack-a-mole, and while they have a lot <\/em>of extorted dues money to spend (just less than half on union members are Republicans; about 8% of unions’ political money goes to GOP candidates), they’re spread thinner than ever before; putting one more piece of legislation out there will spread them thinner.<\/p>\n

It’s not like the unions aren’t going to go after swing-y candidates in Minnesota – they already co-own the DFL<\/a> along with Alita Messinger, and they will conduct a merciless, no-holds-barred, no-boundaries-respected smear campaign of every Republican in this state no matter what’s on the ballot this year. \u00a0And in a year or two or three? \u00a0The DFL and unions will have re-filled their coffers, and have many, many fewer challenges to deal with, for better or worse.<\/p>\n

So if not now, when? \u00a0If not here, where?<\/p>\n

The fact is, according to sources on Capitol Hill, we are three votes shy of passing this thing, and there are six GOP Senate holdouts.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leadership can do something about this.\u00a0I’m going to urge you to contact the leadership of the House and Senate:<\/p>\n