Yep

Those poor sucker signature collectors were trying to get me to give my signature to a repeal of Prop. 8 initiative. I ignored them.

But if someone comes up with an anti-public unions prop., I’ll give over my signature so fast your head would swim!

This is America, and people can join any group they want to – see “amendment, the first” and “assembly, peaceable” for further reading.

Now, what you may mean is that you want to prohibit any special priveleges unions may have in the negotiating/collective bargaining process. That would be far more appropriate to what you have in mind.

Sean Parnell
President
Center for Competitive Politics
http://www.campaignfreedom.org

What exactly did I “suggest”? I didn’t say they shouldn’t be allowed to offer their ideas about taxes. I said it is arrogant to do so and that the idiots we elect should be telling them to shove it because they (the unions) weren’t elected to implement taxes. There was no suggestion that the law should be used to shit them up.

But, if you want to know exactly what I think about public employees unions, I think they should be directly outlawed. A union for state workers is entirely antithetical to good government on nearly every level.

Just put it this way: what is a union for if not to “get stuff” for its members. A union is NOT for the job, the work the outcome of labor. A union does not care a whit abut the product. A union is an extortion racket meant to take as much as possible from an employer.

That being true WHO is a public employee’s employer? That would be us, the tax payers. So, in the case of a public employees union, WHO is the one being extorted with no eye to the work or the end product? That would be TAXPAYERS.

Unions are a bad idea all the way around, but at least in the private sector their efforts only hurt one business owner or its investors and that hurt can be offset by other efforts and profits. But in a public employees union we get all the pain and NO gain from a union.

They should be outlawed. Period.

seriously, where the heck did you get the idea of what you just said from W_TH’s diary? BTW, I love your little advertisement for yourself at the bottom. Center for Competitive Politics Indeed.

should be prohibited from acting singularly or in concert to influence the outcome of any election, ballot proposition, initiative, legislative action etc. beyond their individual right to cast a vote. The federal Hatch Act has been gutted as well as similar prohibitions in almost all states. This has had the effect of turning public employee unions into socialist labor parties like the European model, something trade unions never adopted here.

Having spent much of my adult life as a public employee, I sincerely believe that checking that constitutional right should be the price of public employment. It would actually be a great benefit to many public employees, especially upper level merit system employees who come under tremendous political pressure. This would firmly place them off-limits in the political extortion that takes place around every election. I know that when I was a fed, I was very happy to say, “I’m Hatched,” whenever I got pinched for a contribution or “encouraged” to go to a fundraiser.

you should change the name of your organization to the Center for Uncompetitive Politics.