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: TalkLeftGOP Govs Running Shy On Union Busting Bills
By Big Tent Democrat
In the wake of a USA Today/Gallup Poll showing that Americans strongly oppose union busting bills such as the one proposed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, two GOP governors have come out against such bills. In Indiana, Mitch Daniels advised his party to abandon its "right to work" bill. And in Florida, Rick Scott, perhaps smarting from following the Tea Party's bad advice on HSR funding, supports collective bargaining for public sector employees:
My belief is as long as people know what they're doing, collective bargaining is fine," Scott said in an interview with Tallahassee's WFLA FM radio station.
Overreach by Walker? Can he extricate himself now?
Update: Also Michigan's GOP Governor.
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Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 22, 2011 (boomark / email).
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