But that is exactly what Reps. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL)42%, Bob Dold, Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY)26%, David Joyce, Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ)53%, Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)42%, Rep. David McKinley (R-WV)52%, Rep. Pat Meehan (R-PA)39%, Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA)38%, Aaron Shock, Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID)43%, and David Valdao appear to be. All of them are members of the union-funded Republican Main Street Partnership. They have all taken money from the NEA. They all have abysmal Heritage Action and Club for Growth scores (bar Dold, for whom ratings aren’t fully available given when he was elected). And they have all taken stances on key education legislation right in line with the NEA.
And NH State Senator David Boutin can be lumped with these union supported Republicans – go ahead, ask him if he would EVER vote for Right To Work legislation, even a watered down bill that merely mandates that unions have to collect their member dues directly instead of the State of NH taking it out of union members paychecks. And yes, a little blue bird did tweet in my ear that he’s been spotted in diners with union leaders. Maybe not the NEA, but little difference. You know, the same unions that beef up and work for Democrats. Good deal for him, not necessarily us trying to derail the Statists policies of the Dems.
Others at RedState have written before about the problems caused for advancing conservative policy by the union-funded Republican Main Street Partnership and their members. It just so happens
I’ve stumbled upon another example, concerning education reform, Republican House members and the NEA. As a reminder, the NEA is one of the big national teachers union organizations. It is, in fact, the biggest labor union in America. It’s allegedly had problems with leadership engaging in embezzlement, dabbling in child pornography, and encouraging teachers to politick in the classroom for Barack Obama and against Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)49%.
And so, will Boutin hope that the rest of us won’t watch his votes? Probably. S’all right – we’ll catch up with him.
After all, it’s not what his words are (although he has, over and over, claimed to be a conservative….uh-huh), it his actions and the results thereof.
Currently, the NEA is on the warpath against education reform legislation being pushed by Rep. John Kline (R-MN)50% in the House. While some conservatives also have issues with the legislation, suffice to say that their problem with it isn’t that it ensures conditions in which parents would be able to determine how their kid’s school is performing and create conditions for bad teachers to be denied automatic pay hikes, or for them to be fired, or any other number of measures that reasonable people would agree are appropriate to get crappy teachers out of the classroom. Suffice also to say that these same conservative organizations’ problem with the legislation isn’t that they take money from teachers’ unions and they are, shall we say, hyper-donor-responsive.
So, that’s at the DC level – will Boutin act like the afore mentioned R CongressCritters in derailing good conservative legislation when it runs counter to his campaign money bag funders?
Drunk or not, how will he vote? For us, or the unions?
