"It's an ideological mission they have in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, they're going after an ideological agenda," says Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio on the latest moves by Republicans to bust unions, defund Planned Parenthood, and restrict women's right to abortion. He points out that neither Ohio governor John Kasich nor Wisconsin governor Scott Walker campaigned on any of these issues--and that the people of his state and around the country are ready to fight back.
Senator Brown joins Laura from Washington, D.C. to discuss the attacks on workers in his state and around the country, how they connect to attacks on health care and abortion rights, and why he's optimistic about the fight ahead.
Opensecrets spells it out like it is. Unions raise a pittance in comparison to Chamber of Commerce, PACs, and now corporate treasuries directly. The whole logic behind 1970s campaign finance “reforms” now further exacerbated by Citizen’s United is completely reversed.
“It is a very different time now”. It is the Top 2% pillaging the property rights of the 98% now, not the other way around like it was successfully argued to have been the case in the 1970s after the shut down of the Vietnam War, Clean Air, Clean Water, and OSHA acts all passed in swift succession due to popular democracy, hurting dividends for the major property owners. We’ve now got to go to Court to reverse the nasty precedent that allows these “laws” and practices, and the nasty trends they’ve given rise to which definitely show unequal protection of property rights between wage earners and unearned income earners under these laws.
By planckbrandt on March 14th, 2011 at 1:55 pm