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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (6793)	3/24/2001 12:04:40 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

I don't care whether my union gives money to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or the Libertarian Party ... as long as the money goes to causes and candidates that support a platform to help the working men and women of America ... as opposed to giving more corporate welfare to Big Business millionaires. To answer your question: I don't know. I guess any time money goes from Point A to Point B, it can be considered a "contribution." We need to clean up some of this soft-money, hard-money, semi-hard-money mess that is corrupting politics. The main point I wish to make about union donations: What unions do is no different than, for instance, what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce does. No different than what any large company in the U.S. does. No different than what the NRA does. No different than what the Religious Right does. As I have said before ... where unions can really make a difference isn't so much in campaign contributions (94% business, 6% unions in political contributions the past election), but rather in grass-roots politics, i.e., getting out the vote through hard work and shoe-leather. The Orrin Hatch "paycheck protection" amendment which was soundly trounced by the Senate this past week (69-31) was simply intended to drive an initial wedge into unions' solidarity. Sen. Kennedy said it best: "The amendment ... is not reform. It is revenge for the extraordinarily successful efforts made by the unions to get out the vote in the last election." Perhaps the Repubs and the Chamber of Commerce boys should work harder instead of trying to hammer those that do.