WELP. That happened. Overall, Republicans won the U.S. Senate and gained in House seats. In Virginia, Mark Warner, the most popular politician in the Commonwealth for over a decade, needed the Fairfax Connection (Fairfax County […]
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Insects Voting for Raid/Terminix: The Curious Story of Republican Union Members and Business Unionism.
Being a union member and voting Republican is like being an insect and voting for the Raid/Terminix ticket.
This is something that my father used to always tell me when I was coming of age in politics. I never understood it either; even though I was much more conservative in my youth than I am now (though always a Democrat; I will likely cover that in a later blog post), I could never understand why members of a labor union would cast a ballot for a party that actively works to destroy them.