Union Scheme to Steal Everyone Else’s Money Goes to Court – National Review*

"Now, the state supreme courts in Texas and Arizona are about to hear cases that may fundamentally change how the activities of government labor unions are financed....Government unions weren’t happy with having to respect employees’ First Amendment rights or taxpayers’ pocketbooks, so they implemented another scheme, 'release time,' which forces the public to pay union salaries."
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Truth in Cook County
2 years ago

Thank goodness for Texas. Aside from our state attorney general, Kwame Raoul, needing a team of lawyers to help him spell his name correctly, he appears totally inept at finding any government or union-related fraud in our state. All while Illinois if widely regarded as the state with the most government and union corruption in the country. And he would never think of striving to clean up our voter rolls, which create massive fraud in our elections here.

gloria
2 years ago

Actually, Kwame Raoul just looks the other way like all other liberal democrat leftists in Cook county!


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