My fellow UCD Law School alum Allison Hayward at the Skeptic’s Eye has been sifting through labor union disclosure forms, and guess what she’s found:
Payments to entities with “Democrat� in the name: 38 (totalling slightly over $660,000). Payments to “Republican�: 2 (both from carpenter’s unions) totalling $17,000.
Well, that’s one stereotype reinforced. Here’s another:
Payments to entities with the keyword “casino�: 20, including a payment by the NEA’s National Headquarters to the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa in Atlantic City of $141,043.
I’m sure that all 20 are legitimate payments for services received — probably the union leadership’s annual meetings at those fine business establishments. Yeah, right.
Given the recent discussions here and here, I wonder if public employee unions are included in this database? I know their political contribution patterns are heavily reported, but it’d be interesting to see who else they gave money to….