John Thune: “I guess I would simply say that my guess is that perhaps like the district that my colleague represents, Colorado…”

“I guess I would simply say that my guess is that perhaps like the district that my colleague represents, Colorado, people that I represent, the State of South Dakota, the people that I serve, whether they are union members or not, are very much just hard-working people, who, as a basic premise of life, think that these matters can best be resolved at the local level, that the decision-making, the control, and the power ought to be there, and that they ought to have the freedom to determine how best to use the hard-earned dollars, those dollars that they work very, very hard for week in and week out, to the purpose for which they intend, rather than having someone say to them that this is not a prerogative that they ought to have. I think again what we are really talking about here very simply is saying that this ought to be a voluntary process and clearly the people who are forced to participate against their will and political process that that is wrong.”