Union Culture Of Thuggary

We told you here how the union thugs have been trying to block citizen petitions in Oregon going back to 2002. (We are working on obtaining video of the red-shirted union paid blockers from back in 2002.)

We told you here how the head of "Our Oregon", Patty Wentz has been involved in such anti-democracy tactics for years. We also have suggested that the Oregon model of initiative blocking has been spreading.

Now we have this editorial from the Las Vegas Review Journal that says:

those who favor the unlimited expansion of the public sector realize their best shot of killing a spending cap rests with sympathetic judges.

Get ready Oregon, the union thugs of "Our Oregon" are already showing their hand here. However the Las Vegas Review Journal opinion should be sending the Oregon mainstream media a heads up.

The Associated Press reports that, "Organizers of a petition drive aimed at capping state spending in Nebraska are suing three cities, alleging they have been obstructing the effort and interfering with free speech."

In their zeal to quash spending caps, according to the allegations, officials in Omaha, Lincoln and Grand Island -- three of the Nebraska's four largest cities -- have tried to stop petition supporters from gathering signatures in public parks, on sidewalks and streets, and outside
public facilities.

Sound familiar? Similar tactics were used in 2004 against petitioners in Nevada seeking to drum up support for proposals to ban public employees from serving in the Legislature and repeal record tax increases passed by lawmakers in 2003.

And those circulating TASC petitions in Las Vegas this month had to fend off members of a public employee union-backed group hoping to intimidate voters into not signing....

...Thus the desperate tactics employed by these powerful special interests.

Of course the good people at the "non-partisan," non-profit organization "Our Oregon," are only interested in cleaning up the process eh? Of course they are not interested in targeting conservative issues because that would make their tactics partisan and political and thus would jeopardize their non-profit status.

Consider that former Oregon union thug Jeanne Berg is now running the blocking operations in the Midwest. Consider that Patty Wentz was her understudy in Oregon. Consider that the name of the union thug group in Nevada is "Nevadans for Nevada." Eerily similar to "Our Oregon?"

We are still compiling the list of charges that have been filed against the union thugs in Nevada. Suffice it to say that assault is among them. Also suffice it to say that a judge in Nevada smacked down the union thugs and forced them to sign on to a plan that forced them to be civil in their opposition and blocking tactics.

Just a shadow of what is to come to Oregon?


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