{"id":2416,"date":"2011-03-01T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2011-03-01T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:10:45","slug":"wisconsin-fleebaggers-heavily-funded-by-public-employee-union-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/wisconsin-fleebaggers-heavily-funded-by-public-employee-union-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Fleebaggers heavily funded by Public Employee Union payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Color me not surprised. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/117078618.html\">Here is the, ahem, money quote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 14 Wisconsin Democratic senators who fled to Illinois share more than just political sympathy with the public employees and unions targeted by Gov. Scott Walker\u2019s budget-repair bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Democrats count on those in the public sector as a key funding source for their campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, nearly one out of every five dollars raised by those Democratic senators in the past two election cycles came from public employees, such as teachers and firefighters, and their unions, a Journal Sentinel analysis of campaign records shows. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaypatriot.net\/2011\/03\/01\/truant-wisconsin-democratic-senators-receive-far-greater-percentage-of-campaign-funds-from-public-employee-unions-than-governor-walker-received-from-koch-brothers\/\">HT to the Gay Patriot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember the good advice from <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipseweb.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/morning-quotes.html\">the man who wrote the screenplay<\/a>, &#8220;Follow the Money.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color me not surprised. \u00a0Here is the, ahem, money quote. The 14 Wisconsin Democratic senators who fled to Illinois share more than just political sympathy with the public employees and unions targeted by Gov. Scott Walker\u2019s budget-repair bill. The Senate Democrats count on those in the public sector as a key funding source for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,43,19],"tags":[251,262,329,414,478,486,621],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-politics","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-fleebagger","tag-incompetent","tag-leftist","tag-liberal","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-CY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}