Worried About Big Labor, Democracy Alliance Scrambles to Expand Fundraising

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Free Beacon:

The left’s leading donor club is frantic at the prospect of Big Labor’s diminishing ability to finance its political operations and is scrambling to come up with new ways to raise money, internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon reveal.

 

Democracy Alliance president Gara LaMarche warned attendees of the group’s donor conference in Santa Monica, California, last week that a reduction in labor union support would seriously damage the Alliance’s financial clout and the resources available to its portfolio of political and policy groups.

 

“Not all the resources we currently bring to bear are secure,” LaMarche told conference attendees gathered at the ritzy Fairmont Miramar hotel.

 

A copy of his prepared remarks illustrates the challenges posed to prominent left-wing groups by laws that prohibit forced unionization in the workplace and limit unions’ abilities to spend members’ dues on political or policy advocacy.