By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-24 14:15:29 | Updated at 2024-09-30 17:17:00
6 days ago
Illinois Government worker’s union dues being diverted to swing - state politics - (Outrage)
Illinois Policy Institute ^ | September 19, 2024 | Mailee Smith
Posted on 09/24/2024 6:59:08 AM PDT by re_tail20
Illinois government workers’ union dues fund Democratic Party campaign committees, which are now seeking to tip the presidential election outcome in swing states. That fails to align with at least 40% of members’ politics.
The Illinois Democratic Party wants to decide the outcome of the presidential election by making a strategic investment in swing states, according to state party chair Lisa Henandez.
That strategy was echoed by U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who said, “We should adopt [Wisconsin] – and we have in many respects – to be part of their organization to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”
The problem: the money in the Illinois Democratic Party’s political coffers hasn’t been “donated” solely by willing Democratic voters. Some of the party’s resources come from Illinois government worker union dues.
An estimated 45% of Illinois union members supported former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Nationally, at least 40% of union households voted Republican in the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections.
That means union spending on Democratic causes was used against union members’ voting preferences. Government union bosses have been bolder in speaking for members than other union leaders.
The Teamsters just refused to pick a presidential candidate for the first time in decades. Almost 60% of its members wanted to endorse Trump.
Here’s how it works: Government union members pay dues to their unions. Most of those dues don’t stay at the local level. Instead, the money flows up to the unions’ affiliates and political action committees, which use union money to fund political causes.
For example, the Service Employees International Union State Council, which encompasses members of SEIU HCII, Local 73 and Local 1, collected money from members and then diverted more than $2.3 million to its political action committee in 2023, according to a report the union...
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TOPICS: Government; US: Illinois; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: illinoiswisconsin
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1 posted on 09/24/2024 6:59:08 AM PDT by re_tail20
To: re_tail20
Now, there’s a big surprise......I think I’m going to have a heart attack and die from NOT surprise.
2 posted on 09/24/2024 6:59:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: re_tail20
3 posted on 09/24/2024 7:03:08 AM PDT by Rich21IE
To: re_tail20
Communists do as they please. Rules are for the rest of us.
4 posted on 09/24/2024 7:03:16 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
To: re_tail20
Sounds like Little Dick Durbin and his union scum are trying to JaySix the presidential election.
5 posted on 09/24/2024 7:03:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If the DNC would spay and neuter their supporters we wouldn't need all these abortions.)
To: re_tail20
I thought that’s the way all government unions; federal, state and county worked. At least from my observations for the past 60 years. Wasn’t that the reason public sector workers were allowed to unionize, to be able to be held hostage to their jobs by the party (primarily if not exclusively democrat) and their dues used as the party wished, at the expense of all taxpayers? Am I missing something?
6 posted on 09/24/2024 7:05:10 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
To: re_tail20
Hmmmmmm? Really? Unions would never divert funds for this sort of effort would they? Even if the rank and file didn’t want them to. /$
7 posted on 09/24/2024 7:06:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: re_tail20
I was a Teamster for a year, back in the 90s. It was a year too long. I did the part time overnight loading of airplane containers at the UPS hub. BIG Teamster strike against UPS. The Teamster president at the time (I forget his name) went to jail for diverting union funds to the Democrat party, which was illegal.
Nothing new with those people.
8 posted on 09/24/2024 7:13:23 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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