Two more costly losses for public unions

[Geee]

Investors Business Daily:

Here's a little good news story you won't find in many places today.

 

First, it doesn't come out of Washington, D.C., which you already knew because it's Good News.

 

Second, it's another victory in the little-noticed ongoing legal guerrilla war between conservatives and state government unions. Actually, two victories.

 

It concerns workers who provide daycare services for low-income families across Illinois and receive state subsidies. Under executive orders of the last two governors -- Rod Blagojevich and currently Pat Quinn, both Democrats -- those daycare workers were ruled state employees, and union dues, called "agency fees," were involuntarily withheld and paid to the Service Employees International Union.

 

In turn, those funds totaling about $20 million a year, were used to support Democrat politicians, who support the unions, who support the incumbents, etc.

 

Lieut. Gov. Quinn inherited the governor's office when Blagojevich, like most recent Illinois governors, went to prison. With the help of a Democrat legislature, Quinn drastically increased state taxes and is presiding over a state pension crisis. He's in a tight reelection race with Bruce Rauner, a self-funded Republican vowing to clean up the mess in Springfield.

 

And right now -- yes believe it -- Democrat Quinn is trailing Rauner in Illinois.