The thing that really gets under my skin with this whole issue is that I think every side is wrong. The unions are looking to protect their power and the money coming in. With about 30,000 members between teachers and state workers, each paying about $1000 per year in dues. Your talking 30mil these unions are taking in per year. No wonder they are fighting to stay on the money train. I don't believe for a moment that the unions have the best interests of their members in mind. The Dems, get huge campaign contributions from the unions. I don't believe they are making a moral stand on an issue, they are making a financial stand. And leaving the state in order to prevent state business is the lowest of the low in my opinion. The Repubs say they are worried about the budget, but I highly doubt this. I think this is a thinly veiled attempt to make a move towards more privatization of state services. Its great business to take public moneys and put it in corporate hands. In the end, I don't think any of the parties involved with this fight actually give a **** about the workers or their families.
Yes it is. He repeated hundreds of times that CB was not going to get excised and considered separately, or make any changes at all to what he submitted and was passed in the House. He caved.