Two organizations aim to start "North Carolina First" political party
RALEIGH, NC (By T.J. Cutini; Rush Radio 94.5) - Two organizations are working together to form another new political party in North Carolina. The State Employees Association of North Carolina and the Service Employees International Union are trying to collect 85,000 signatures to get on the November ballot as "North Carolina First."
The idea about the new party came about when three Democratic members of Congress, Larry Kissell, Mike McIntyre, and Heath Shuler, all voted against the Healthcare Reform Bill.
The idea about the new party came about when three Democratic members of Congress, Larry Kissell, Mike McIntyre, and Heath Shuler, all voted against the Healthcare Reform Bill.
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(Hot Air) - Surprise! The union backing this is the one that has the most to gain from expanding the federal government. The SEIU can only grow its membership when Congress expands federal bureaucracies. Those who vote against the Leviathan must therefore be removed, regardless of which party it involves.
With the Tea Party, the organizational level is grassroots and dispersed. Democrats have much more to fear from this movement, at least in North Carolina — for now. Labor bosses know how to unionize and have tens of thousands of members they can use for such petition drives. They can easily create the infrastructure of a state-wide party, and they will end up splitting the progressive vote with the Democrats, reversing the inroads the Democrats made in North Carolina over the last six years.
This may be a salutary development for other reasons, especially if it goes national. Democrats have increasingly been controlled by union money and have made themselves the party of big government for that reason. If the unions split away and form their own party, the Democrats can distance themselves from the radical agenda of the unions and marginalize that big-government agenda to its obvious beneficiaries. That could kill the march towards big government. Since the SEIU and AFSCME would be using dues collected from federal bureaucrats to target Democrats as well as Republicans, both would have a stake in trimming the rolls of federal employees and ending ideas like Card Check in the private sector.
The formation of a Labor Party in the US would mean an eventual triumph of private-market policies, and the first step in reversing the monumental growth of Washington’s power. That kind of third-party formation should be cheered, as it would marginalize progressives for a generation or more.
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