Asa Hutchinson: “Then I have before me an editorial that appeared in the Anchorage Times on December 17, 1996. You will notice that most…”

“Then I have before me an editorial that appeared in the Anchorage Times on December 17, 1996. You will notice that most of the correspondence and editorials that have been written have occurred within the last 2, 3 years, because it is during this time period that this problem has become so exacerbated, become so widely used by union organizers who are having little success in organizing otherwise, and they are going to these very destructive tactics. This was written December 17, 1996, in the Anchorage Times, and I think the title of the editorial is significant: ``Do Bad Real Good.'' In this case, it was actually a city that was facing a union salting campaign, and the threats that were made by the IBEW representatives were so egregious that it received widespread attention. I will read part of that editorial: In a meeting with Mayor Margie Johnson in November, according to City Manager Scott Janke, the IBEW representatives threatened the community with great financial harm. The IBEW representative said: By the time we get finished with this town, it will make the open meeting lawsuit your town was in look like chicken feed. That cost the town over a million dollars in legal fees. So the union organizer representative said it was going to be ``chicken feed'' compared to what they were going to do. He said: Your town can't afford it, but we can. We will take out advertisements in the paper. We will ruin you. * * * What we will do is rip this town apart.…”