And if this happens, the GOP should be able to mop the floor with the Democrat party in California in 2010:
California’s largest state employees’ union voted on Saturday to approve a strike authorization measure to protest furloughs of state workers and pressure state officials to ratify its labor contract.
A spokesman for Service Employees International Union Local 1000 said a strike was not imminent but that the vote authorized union officers to initiate certain job actions, including a strike if necessary.
The SEIU represents about 95,000 state employees, including clerical workers and teachers.
Please, please, please go on strike – it would so clearly indicate just how out of touch this major portion of the liberal base is. We’ve been looking for the means of demonstrating the problem – this would neatly fill the bill.
You see, the parts of the liberal problem tend to distance themselves, in the public mind, from each other – there is a public perception that the SEIU is not a mere adjunct of the Democrat party. If they go on strike during this crisis, it would force the Democrat leadership to back the strike. Presto! In the public mind, Democrats and SEIU are one, and both go down to defeat.
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