A bit of googling and I found this story about our own Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn, who was booed by union thugs because he isn’t left wing enough. The Huffington Post reports from Springfield Illinois on the Unions abandoning the Democrats because the state has finally reached the point at which budget reforms, however modest, can no longer be avoided. But as we all know, cancer does not care if it kills the host. In the long run serious cut backs will have to be made, and Illinois is in a deep fiscal hole. Union pay and pensions will have to be modified if the state is to survive. Wisconsin has shown how it is done, but Illinois has yet to learn the lesson.
When Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn arrived at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill., on Wednesday — Governor’s Day — he was met by hundreds of pro-union demonstrators who practically drowned out his speech with boos and chants of “Gov. Quinn has got to go,” “Respect Illinois workers” and “Liar!” Later, the governor made a gaffe worthy of Webster’s.
“We are extremely disturbed that at a time when collective bargaining rights for public employees are under attack by a number of Republican governors, here in Illinois we have a Democratic governor who is undermining fundamental collective bargaining rights for public employees,” Michael Carrigan, president of Illinois’ AFL-CIO, told the Chicago Tribune of the unions’ opposition to the governor’s policies.
The protesters also, NBC Chicago reports, booed other top state Democratic leaders including Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon and House Speaker Michael Madigan.
