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PATRICK MCILHERAN ON WHAT?S HAPPENING IN WISCONSIN: Unions Want To Overturn Election Result. The?

By Glenn Reynolds

PATRICK MCILHERAN ON WHAT’S HAPPENING IN WISCONSIN: Unions Want To Overturn Election Result.

The public-sector union tantrums, meant to make lawmakers wobble, have an inadvertent message for the rest of us: Voters can vote all they want. We can elect a cheapskate governor and a Legislature to match. But come the moment, unions will have the last, loudest word.

They’ll have it if takes marches. They’ll have it if it takes what amounts to an illegal strike, with so many Madison teachers calling in sick Wednesday that the district closed schools. If it takes showing up for a we-know-where-your-family-is protest on Walker’s Wauwatosa lawn while he was at work, the unions are sure they can outshout any election result.

This is exactly why Walker is right to limit the unions’ power over government spending.

No reason to subsidize a bunch of heavyhanded, inept thugs with taxpayer money.

UPDATE: An online poll.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).