Tag: government unions

Pennsylvania Government Union Political Spending Skyrockets Even as Membership Declines

Bradley Vasoli

Even as Pennsylvania’s public-sector unions suffer net losses of members and dues, these groups continue to ramp up political donations, according to a new analysis by the Harrisburg-based Commonwealth Foundation (CF). 

According to the free-market nonprofit, spending from Keystone State government unions like the Pennsylvania State Education Association and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 13 totaled $6.34 million in the 2011-12 campaign cycle. That amount steadily rose over all gubernatorial and presidential cycles and reached a record $20.2 million in 2021-22. 

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Crom Carmichael: We’ve Had More Government for the Last 50 Years, More Government is Not Exactly the Solution

Julie Carr

Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. –  host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio.

During the third hour, Carmichael reflected upon the Democrat’s unsuccessful 50-year push for more government and pointed out its failures. He explained how more government is not the solution and pointed out how the government unions that protect bad apples among the good ones were an even larger problem.

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Let’s Trace the Democratic Elites and the Media First, Says Crom Carmichael

Julie Carr

On Friday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio.

At the end of the second hour, Carmichael discussed the concept of contact tracing and suggested that perhaps the Democratic elite and the media should be the first to explore that option. He reflected on the House Democrats that recently proposed that the country could employ millions of people as contract tracers and speculated that the ultimate goal would be to have them unionized.

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Crom Carmichael: The ‘Tree of Evil’ Began When JFK Signed an Order to Allow Federal Employees to Unionize

Julie Carr

  On Tuesday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – Leahy and guest co-host Crom Carmichael discussed the relationship between the government union leaders and the Democrat party and disclosed that the party receives over a billion dollars per election cycle. During the course of the show, Carmichael expressed the growing control that the government is seeking over ‘we the people’ and the true motives of the Democrat party. Coining the phrase, ‘Tree of Evil’ he went on to stress that he was very concerned about the push for government unions and described their leaders as thugs. Leahy: We’re in the studio with our good friend Crom Carmichael. Crom, I had a story I wrote at Breitbart the other day. I’ll just read the first two sentences and that will lead us to our next topic: Democratic Representative Alcee Hastings, Democrat from Florida is one of only eight federal judges in American history who have been impeached by the House of Representatives. Convicted by the US Senate and removed from office. No federal judge has ever been impeached over an alleged incident for which…

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