Apparently, Delegate David Englin may be the dumbest member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Either that, or he's simply a liar.
Give the guy credit: he's got the talking points down. The Wisconsin situation is about "destroying public employee unions." The budget was a "red herring." "Removing the ability of teachers and janitors and other public employees to band together to make a better lives for themselves."
Nice soundbites, all.
Reality? Not hardly.
Of course, repealing the special privileges possessed by labor unions --- monopoly (not collective) bargaining; government collection of their union dues --- is not about "Removing the ability of teachers and janitors and other public employees to band together to make a better lives for themselves." After all, that sounds like a First-Amendment right that's being attacked, doesn't it?
Can little Davey Englin really not know the difference between the right to come together to petition government --- an actual right, one left unmolested by the Wisconsin bill --- and the special monopoly bargaining privilege which is being repealed? If so, he may be too stupid to sit in the Virginia House of Delegates.
"The point of a Right to Work law is to end collective bargaining"?!?!?
No, Davey: the point of a Right to Work law is to deny a union the power to force nonmembers to pay union dues (to be fair, his debate opponent seems no more informed about what the law does). The union still possesses monopoly bargaining power. Unfortunately.
Apparently, Englin is so captured by his union contributors that he can't even get the facts right about what a Right to Work law does.
Either that, or he's simply channeling President TelePrompTer, mindlessly repeating the Talking Points.
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