A brand new website has launched tracking the amount of money that public sector unions spend on political campaigns, noting that there is a disparity between what unions spend on Republicans versus Democrats.
Public Union Facts explains the purpose of their website noting “Public-sector unions often spend a sizable percentage of their budgets on political advocacy. Our database tracks political spending history for thousands of public-sector unions so that members can see how much money their union has sent to political causes and candidates.”
In South Dakota, it comes as no shock to learn that in the years that the organization has tracked the State Teacher’s Union that they find the organization has put hard campaign cash into Democrats versus Republicans on a 5 to 1 basis, spending over $486,000 to elect Democrats to the State House or office of Governor at the same time only donating $96,146 to Republicans.
The site also tracks how much the SDEA has put into State Ballot Measures and State Political Parties.
You can find the website here. And you can review the SDEA numbers here.
20% of “Republicans”. Would that be on the conservative or establishment fringe ?
The worst rhinos in the past decade
Don’t waste your money teachers. Your administrators are mostly Republican.
Well, at least they are mostly wasting their money with less to use for other Dem causes. This is why people should not be forced to contribute to unions.
Especially public Unions. We need good solid unions for the private sector to make our towns and cities great again.
Unions, including private sector unions, tend to try to make it so their members can do less for more money. I grew up in a union household. I remember my dad talking about how good unions were. Two people doing the same job got paid the same whether one person worked harder than the other. It is no wonder when given a choice people who have ambition choose not to belong to a union. Private sector unions will not do anything to make our towns and cities great again. I am not even sure there is a need.
Huron use to be a union town, now look at it.
Would you care to elaborate? What kind of unions were there? Why has the union left? Could it be workers decided they were better off without them? Could it be businesses decided to go elsewhere? I don’t know much about Huron, except it takes forever to drive through it north to south and they have a pretty good burger joint on the highway. I know Huron has had an influx of people from outside of the US. I know there is a turkey processing plant. I know the school system has a large number of people who are English language learners. What is bad about Huron?
Armours paid the working class a living wage and benefits. That’s when the town was thriving. They were a union and they were fair with their employees. They didn’t take advantage of subsidies like low income housing ,food stamps, English second language and health care, Eventually Smithfield swooped in and shut them down. The workers won a lawsuit on the Warren act. And now you know the rest of the story.
How many employees did Armour employ? According to what I can find, Smithfield bought Dakota Pork and closed it, probably to eliminate competition. In any case, Huron was suffering from a lack of railroad service and a lack of Interstate Highway. It also sounds to me like you see problems with the people who have been moving in and their apparent use of public services.
Cory Heidelberger is lying by omission on his blog right now about this. He doesn’t mention the amount of money given to Sutton Vs Noem last year by the SDEA.
I am reminded about the girl who picked up a snake that was freezing. The snake promises not to bite her, so she picks him up and puts him in her shirt to warm him up. When he warms up, he bites her. As she lay dying, she asks why he bit her. He answers that she knew what he was when she picked him up. Anybody who is surprised by Mr. Heidelberger or the SDEA’s actions should not be surprised. We know who and what they are.
It’s a public school system union, I don’t think anyone expected that they would support conservatism or fiscal responsibility.
Why wouldn’t they? If they are pro-education, why waste a penny on the party that is proven over and over to be anti-education? Republicans = anti-education.
Since the Democrats have not been in power in this state since the mid nineties (SD Senate) one could argue that all the money that has gone to education has come from Republicans and Democrats haven’t done anything…like normal.
Let’s see your proof Truthinator.
So far my analysis is the public education system failed you.
Let’s talk about education.
Right now a math teacher over at the Dakota Free Press is saying that general fund revenues lag for the third straight month.
The State has taken in more revenue than it did last year though the end of March. It’s not that hard to look at the numbers and see that. I think that is pretty good considering the farm economy right now.
You remind me of him Truthinator.