-By Warner Todd Huston
Governor Pat Quinn signed Executive Order number 09-15 earlier in the year. This order gave the state government the OK to hand over the private information — the addresses, names, and telephone numbers — of hundreds of families that have developmentally disabled children and other family members with chronic medical problems in their homes. Many of these people are considered home-based healthcare workers by the state and they receive state aid to help them take care of their disabled family members.
Unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) are salivating to take some of this money out of the pockets of these needy Illinois citizens that only want a little help to take care of family members with major and costly medical problems.
Now, with the signing of EO 09-15, Governor Pat Quinn has given these unions the “in” they need to accost these citizens in their homes or on the phone in order to cajole them into joining their unions. Once these unions get done bothering Illinois citizens in their homes, thanks to being given private addresses by Quinn, they will then begin to reap the reward of millions of dollars in forced dues remittances.
Quinn has also agreed that these unions will get a portion of these citizen’s state aid whether they join a union or not.
This whole policy is little more than a direct transfer of state money into the accounts of unions by a governor whose state is nearly bankrupt.
Unfortunately, Illinois isn’t the first Democrat controlled state that has instituted this underhanded sort of union payback. States like California and Michigan have already put these sorts of backdoor payoff policies to unions into action. It cannot be ignored that both California and Michigan are two of the states in the worst financial shape in the country and this sort of union payoff is why. Infuriatingly, this is what Governor Quinn is looking to visit on Illinois.
Not long ago, gubernatorial candidate Dan Proft had a press conference on this issue and invited a few Illinoisans that will be directly affected by Quinn’s payoff to unions to speak to their outrage at Governor Quinn.
Please help us demand that Quinn stop his payoffs to groups like ACORN and the SEIU at SayNoToACORN.com. Sign our petition to demand an investigation into these practices by our government
(**Note** we want it known that we are not endorsing Dan Proft’s bid for governor, but this video is directly pertinent to our issue and that is the sole reason we are linking it here.)
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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