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Joe Cunningham: when the other side says that they support the working man and woman, it is not true. Over 90 percent of the jobs in the…

On the recordMarch 30, 1998
when the other side says that they support the working man and woman, it is not true. Over 90 percent of the jobs in the United States are small and large business, nonunion affiliated. What they support are the big union bosses. That want bigger government because they want the power; and that causes higher taxes, higher spending, which goes right along with the Democratic leadership. Secondly, that over 30 percent of union workers are Republican, 10 percent of the workers are third party, and they are coercing that 40 percent to spend their money on campaigns against candidates that they support. And that is wrong. What this bill does is says that the union has got to ask those members, if they use their dollars, can they use them against the opponents. And that is wrong. Thirdly, let us say that a Republican, there are a great number of them that represent union districts, let us say that they vote along with the unions. The President will veto anything that is kicked out against the unions because he wants that power also. If the Republicans vote along with the unions, we lose that. If they vote against it, the President vetoes it; and the Senate probably will not pass it. But let us just say that the union stuff is kicked out. That leaves a disaster in campaigns, because it throws the majority of power to the Democrats. That is exactly what they want. That is why they want the campaign finance reform, because they know it is a lose-lose situation.
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Joe Cunningham
South Carolina

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Discussing campaign finance reform and union influence in politics.

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