For Public Employee Unions, It's Payback Time

Let's see, Democrats made sure that public employee unionists of AFSCME were well taken care of with stimulus money - tens of billions of dollars - and now tens of millions are coming back in the form of campaign contributions.

Mike Barone reports:

The union's president, Gerald McEntee, reports proudly that AFSCME will be contributing $87.5 million in this cycle, entirely or almost entirely to Democrats. "We're spending big," he told the Wall Street Journal. "And we're damn happy it's big."

The mainstream press hasn't shown much interest in reporting on unions' campaign spending, which amounted to some $400 million in the 2008 cycle. And it hasn't seen fit to run long investigative stories on why public employee unions -- the large majority of which work for state and local governments -- contribute so much more to campaigns for federal office.

Nor has it denounced the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision last January allowing unions to spend members' dues on politics without their permission and without disclosure.

Any of you private-sector schmoes unhappy that these public employees are trying to buy the election with the money taken from you to pay them?