Michigan labor vows revenge in 2014 congressional midterms
The main battle cry of the anti-right-to-work protesters, meanwhile, had a common theme: wait for 2014. Many of the GOP seats, including Snyder’s, will be up for grabs during the midterm elections. Rather than attempt to recall Republicans, as Wisconsin Democrats tried and failed to do to Gov. Scott Walker, the Michigan unions are set to mobilize behind Democrats and pro-union Republicans in two years.
“What you did today is going to happen over the next two years,” said David Hecker, president of the American Federation of Teachers’ Michigan chapter. Teachers made up a large number of the protesters on Tuesday, and three schools in suburban Detroit were closed as a result of a teacher-led protest.
“Those legislators who voted for right to work,” Hecker added, “will know where we’ll be; they will know when we’ll be there; they will know what we’re going to do, but they’re going to be sorry at what they have decided to put themselves through the next two years.”
Labor unions have long been a strong political force in Michigan, skewing heavily toward Democrats. President Obama, who visited Detroit on Monday, won Michigan in 2008 and 2012 due in large part to overwhelming support from labor unions. No Republican presidential candidate has carried the state since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
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And if that doesn’t work, they’ll blow up your car.
matd on December 12, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Bring it, b!tches.
bigmacdaddy on December 12, 2012 at 1:05 PM
I think it’s better if you have a re-call after re-call effort. Let the people of Michigan see how stupid you really are and, you can p*ss away a lot of money at the same time.
BobK on December 12, 2012 at 1:07 PM
And yet their attempt to enshrine union rights into their state constitution lost quite handily. Odd.
Night Owl on December 12, 2012 at 1:08 PM
Revenge because the law gives workers the freedom to choose instead of being forced to join a union and give them money?
I don’t think so. Unions are shrinking and people are sick and tired of being forced to pay more and more money to give unions better pay and benefits than they get.
People are also sick to death of the way unions operate … gimme what I want or else.
Screw unions.
darwin on December 12, 2012 at 1:09 PM
Right on! Sure the state will save money and things will be smoothed out for private businesses, but the unions will be sure to remind all of Michigan that such stupidity is unacceptable.
Vote out
SnyderSynder! So say the teacher’s union.Bishop on December 12, 2012 at 1:09 PM
All our side needs to do is pitch a bunch of tents all over Lansing with nothing in them. Then roll video.
CurtZHP on December 12, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Instant comedy gold.
CurtZHP on December 12, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Of course, by 2014, they’ll have not 25% the membership they have today, but they’ll fight!
michaelo on December 12, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Voting for revenge is so 2012.
Gingotts on December 12, 2012 at 1:13 PM
Good luck with that. No one really cares about your “plight.”
blatantblue on December 12, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Unions: “No freedom of choice! Make them pay us!”
darwin on December 12, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Erect them over large camouflaged pits so when the union goons start walking over the tents..well….
Bishop on December 12, 2012 at 1:18 PM
I’d be fun to ask these unions goons if they remembered how well the threats of voting “revenge” against Walker worked out for them. Of course, the person asking them would be wise to be prepared for the ‘Crowder treatment’ s/he’d receive for daring to ask!
Anti-Control on December 12, 2012 at 1:18 PM
From dictionary.com:
Just add an “L” to his name, and you have the perfect name for a union leader.
UltimateBob on December 12, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Hah
Schadenfreude on December 12, 2012 at 1:19 PM
lol
Anti-Control on December 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Ooooohh, I skeered.
NJ Red on December 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Unfortunately what’s left is going to be the really nasty angry thugs.
katiejane on December 12, 2012 at 1:21 PM
…they fall into the rat infested Turkish latrines…they’d be right at home.
Schadenfreude on December 12, 2012 at 1:21 PM
As someone stated yesterday, those kids are probably better off not going to school at all than they would be with another day of indoctrination by these communists.
UltimateBob on December 12, 2012 at 1:22 PM
And that’s just fine with me; that’s how the democratic process works. People in Michigan voted in a Republican governor and a Republican majority legislature, as it is their right to do. If they want to vote in Democratic majorities in ’14, then I say the voters’ will be done. What I hate is nonsense like those Wisconsin Democratic state senators going AWOL to frustrate the political will of the majority.
radjah shelduck on December 12, 2012 at 1:22 PM
filled with rubber snakes. It’d be worth it just to hear these palookas screaming like little girls.
CurtZHP on December 12, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Hey union guys–Stuffing ballot boxes in Detroit won’t help you in Congressional districts that are not actually in Detroit.
Sekhmet on December 12, 2012 at 1:30 PM
Because they were going to support the R’s in the next election before all this?
wytshus on December 12, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Galt2009 on December 12, 2012 at 1:33 PM
And we’ll get revenge for Crowder and Clint Carver. It goes both ways.
thebrokenrattle on December 12, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Why stop at rubber, non-poisonous ones? You’re not a PETA member, whose only interest would be to protect any real snakes which might get stepped on by the union goons, are you?
How come these uncivil idiots have such a hard time understanding that the law does not on share their interpretation of it?
Anti-Control on December 12, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Yada, yada, yada, Wisconsin unions vowed revenge, too.
Resist We Much on December 12, 2012 at 2:27 PM
Think about it. What’s funnier? Watching a 250lb bozo piss himself over a real snake or a piece of rubber?
CurtZHP on December 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Wherever on earth did they get the idea that they owned anything that could be stolen? Their income and benefits belong to the government and it gets to decide how much of the fruit of their labour they will be allowed to enjoy — sort of like the fructus of the fructus.
Under Progressive theory, what isn’t owned cannot be stolen…well, at least, that is what people like the tweeter above say about my wealth and income. They have a right to whatever is in my wallet or bank accounts.
Resist We Much on December 12, 2012 at 2:38 PM
BREAKING NEWS!!!
Gov’t arrests illegal immigrant Senate intern, Departmet of Homeland Security directed federal agents not to arrest him until AFTER THE ELECTION.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender, now under arrest by immigration authorities, The Associated Press has learned. The Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents not to arrest him until after Election Day, a U.S. official involved in the case told the AP.
Resist We Much on December 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM
Why am I not surprised? After all, this is NJ. And Menendez is a big scum.
NJ Red on December 12, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Call me twisted if you will, but the idea of watching them scream as they stepped into a pit full of real, poisonous snakes while unaware that merciful medics were standing by to administer any needed anti-venom, strikes me as the funniest scenario of them all!
Anti-Control on December 12, 2012 at 3:16 PM