Editorial: Drinking the Kochs' Kool-Aid

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.freep.com/article/20121211/OPINION01/312110048/Editorial-Drinking-Kochs-Kool-Aid

December 11, 2012

A narrative gaining currency among Rick Snyder's defenders explains his flip-flop on right-to-work legislation as a reluctant response to labor unions who put Proposal 2 on the November ballot over the governor's objections, then refused to bargain with good faith with him afterward.

But the truth? Snyder hasn't gotten much respect from the groups backing right-to-work, either.

Americans For Prosperity, founded by billionaire tea party titans David and Charles Koch, is heralding Michigan's imminent passage of right-to-work legislation laws in Michigan as "the shot heard around the world" in the fight to weaken unions.

But the group was also a significant financial backer of Proposal 5, an effort to amend the Michigan Constitution to bar tax increases without a two-thirds legislative supermajority.

FULL story at link.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Eewww

No thank you.