RNC Enters into Wisconsin Union Dispute
The Weekly Standard reports:
While the Democratic National Committee has decided to throw its support behind the pro-public sector union protesters in Wisconsin, the Republican National Committee is doing its part to get Democratic senators back to work.
“The only thing that Scott Walker is asking these state employees to do is to pay basically half the amount that everyone else pays on their pension and healthcare coverage – their contribution, ” RNC chairman Reince Priebus said in a radio interview this morning on WTMJ.
But Priebus isn’t just talking to the media. The Wisconsin native is trying to reach out to Wisconsinites with a series of robo calls in state districts.
“Wisconsin’s Democrat State Senators continue shirking their duty – fleeing to Illinois rather than debating legislation in Madison that would get our fiscal house in order, ” Priebus says in the call. “The Democrats in Washington are threatening they’ll shut down government over proposed spending cuts by Republicans. This isn’t leadership; this is dereliction of duty.”
Priebus ends his call by telling Wisconsinites to call their senators and urge “them to get back to work.”
The RNC is, also, trying to fundraise off protests.
