{"id":28239,"date":"2012-05-31T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28239"},"modified":"2012-05-31T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:43:49","slug":"shot-in-the-dark-todays-news-two-weeks-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28239","title":{"rendered":"Shot In The Dark<\/i>: Today’s News, Two Weeks Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

I should change the motto of this blog; “Our Rumors Are Better Than Most Organizations’ News”.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal <\/em>announced that Wisconsin AFSCME membership has dropped.<\/p>\n

Well, no. \u00a0It plummeted.<\/p>\n

Well, no. \u00a0It went into a flame-belching, smoking death spiral.<\/p>\n

Yeah. \u00a0That’s what I”m looking for.<\/p>\n

In the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>, (via Power Line<\/a><\/em>):<\/p>\n

Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees\u2014the state\u2019s second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers\u2014fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme\u2019s figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Much of that decline came from Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7,100 from 22,300 last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was, of course, reported in this space two weeks ago today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Scuttlebutt from a trusted source who works inside AFSCME Minnesota Council 5 states that there are interesting developments in the Wisconsin AFSCME. Ever since passage and signing of the \u201cright-to-work\u201d laws in our neighboring state to the east, about 80% of those AFSCME members have \u201copted-out\u201d of paying union dues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My source’s anecdote got the percentage wrong, but the magnitude of the catastrophic ennui facing Wisconsin’s unions was dead-nut on.<\/p>\n

Certain members of the leftyblog clucking class tried to call BS on the anecdote, claiming “FACT CHECK”.<\/p>\n

Their spurious claim of “BS” is returned with two weeks’ interest, um, piled on top.<\/p>\n

Endzone happy dance aside? \u00a0I don’t get everything right. \u00a0Not every tip I get pans out. \u00a0But there is more actual bankable fact in this blog in a week than in every leftyblog in Minnesota all year.<\/p>\n

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I should change the motto of this blog; “Our Rumors Are Better Than Most Organizations’ News”. The Wall Street Journal announced that Wisconsin AFSCME membership has dropped. Well, no. \u00a0It plummeted. Well, no. \u00a0It went into a flame-belching, smoking death spiral. Yeah. \u00a0That’s what I”m looking for. In the Wall Street Journal, (via Power Line): […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28241,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239\/revisions\/28241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}