Mitch in Union Crosshairs

Polls continue to indicate that Jill Long Thompson’s campaign is pretty much finished.

Big labor, however, which bankrolled her efforts to the tune of over a million dollars (and even pledged a blank check that apparently bounced), isn’t done yet.

They’re not finished with Mitch Daniels and his free market program. Not by a long shot. If Mitch is reelected, his policies of involving the private sector to make the (previously heavily-unionized) public sector more efficient will continue. And they’ll likely start to catch on in other states, given success here.

If that happens, these unions can kiss their millions in mandatory payroll deductions, otherwise known as union dues, goodbye.

(Read more after the leap)

The Citizens Action Coalition (CAC), a lefty group with significant union ties (they share a building with the Marion County Democratic Party, interestingly enough), created quite a stir last year for developing a website (www.concernedhoosiers.com). They used this website to solicit complaints from state employees about the Daniels administration.

The complaints were sought by Beryl Cohen, who seems to be a disaffected former FSSA executive who lost her job when Mitch Daniels took over and started to clean house in 2005.

In addition, these groups have been sending out postcards to welfare recipients and handing out flyers at events.

Heck, their own website contains a presentation about their rather interesting agenda. Although CAC wants individuals to believe they are impartial and interested in helping applicants, they provide minimal information on getting such problem situations resolved. They mostly seem to be interested in finding and calling attention to complaints.

This is nothing less than a union front organization that is coordinating an effort to fight Mitch’s FSSA modernization program.

The Concerned Hoosiers program isn’t about concern. It’s about revenge for the unions being deprived of millions of dollars in mandatory payroll deductions, err, membership dues.

That’s why there is a blank check from the public employees unions to defeat Mitch Daniels (though it seems to have bounced, or at least Jill Long Thompson hasn’t been able to run a campaign capable of cashing it in). That’s also why they’ve been organizing these other shadowy efforts behind the scenes to build up to their ridiculous lawsuits and their absurdly comical committee meetings.

And this isn’t all. At least three other groups who have joined in this attack with CAC are nothing but union front groups. I’ll get into them sometime later.