About those Koch Brothers.
Via EAG News:
Big Labor plans to target strong Republican governors like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker in the next election, and the unions are prepared to spend over $300 million to take them out.
Lee Saunders, chairman of the AFL-CIO’s political committee and Mike Podhorzer, the union’s political director, outlined the union’s strategy for the November elections following an AFL-CIO executive council meeting in Houston Tuesday, according to People’s World.
Those on Big Labor’s political hit list include Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Pennsylvania Tom Corbett and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the news site reports.
The union officials told the media they’ll also focus on U.S. Senate races with vulnerable Democrats and Republicans in hopes of maintaining Democratic control of that chamber.
Podhorzer “identified the eight states where labor would defend incumbent Democrats as West Virginia, Montana, Michigan, Louisiana, Iowa, Alaska, Arkansas and North Carolina and two states, Kentucky and Georgia, as the states where it was possible to defeat incumbent Republicans,” People’s World reports.
(Podhorzer is in for a surprise, as Michigan’s Senate contest does not feature an incumbent.)
The labor leaders, however, conceded there’s little hope for Democrats to reclaim the U.S. House, though Podhorzer said “we’re not giving up on making gains, particularly in the battleground states.”