Democratic Diva

05 Sep 2010 03:08 pm
Posted by: Donna

Classy. I guess for the encore we can expect an editorial criticizing military benefits on Veterans Day.

Today’s editorial was basically the Republic repeating Arizona GOP talking points about unions and Democrats. I suppose they didn’t want it to be too obvious so they added a lugubrious dose of concern trolling about low wage workers and Dem electoral prospects.

Low-paid workers, many of them immigrants, would lose their jobs in the hotels, resorts and convention facilities most immediately harmed by a boycott. The organizers deemed the job losses worth it in service of the mission. However inconvenient, they were expendable.

Now, the boycott is producing still more unintended victims. Other expendables.

Some of Arizona’s top Democratic political aspirants, all of them opposed to an economic boycott of their state from the very beginning, are being tarred in campaign ads for their association with the unions flogging the boycott, notably the Service Employees International Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is running ads tying her Democratic opponent, Attorney General Terry Goddard, to the unions, which have contributed to Goddard’s campaign.

I had no idea they cared so much!

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