After all, if the union is splitting those dues 93% for the Democrats and 7% for Republicans, then it is clear that employees are being required to make political contributions to one side as a condition of employment – even though union employees split their votes along markedly different lines.

State Rep. Nick Milroy is the Democratic state representative from Wisconsin’s 73rd assembly district. He was on America’s Radio News with anchors Chris Salcedo and Lori Lundin. Salcedo pointed out that union membership was split by their votes in 2010, 49% for Democrats and 47% for Republicans, nearly an even split. But unions donated 93% of their total contributions to Democrats in 2010, and 7% to Republicans or others. The question was asked if the assemblyman could understand why Republicans were not in favor of having tax payer funded dues go to fund Democrat campaigns? The assemblyman contended that public employees can opt out of the unions. But when pressed about how even those that opt out must pay union dues, the assemblyman suggested that those people that didn’t want to be part of a union could find other work.

So got that – if you don’t want to have a portion of your wages as a public employee forcibly extracted for political purposes that you don’t approve of, you just need to reconsider whether you want to work in the public sector. That, my friends, is the classic definition of the old – and illegal – practice of “the lug”, under which public employees were expected extorted to raise funds for the politicians who controlled their fate. Isn’t it time to put an end to this practice by freeing public employees from economic enslavement by the union bosses?