| A few days ago, we ran a purely satirical post claiming that Chris Christie was going to hold a counter-rally tomorrow at the state house, with other GOP electeds who want to turn the clock back on labor's right of collective bargaining.
Some of you took it seriously, and we had to run in and post "snark" warnings on it, just to set the record straight. Now today, we get word that there will be a counter-rally. Joey wasn't seeing into the future; it's not Christie, but the man who sits at Christie's right shoulder, telling him always that he's not right enough. Steve Lonegan, Christie's GOP primary opponent, and now NJ Director of Americans for Prosperity, a "conservative" "activist" group that is stronger in this state than almost anywhere else. I put those two terms in quote marks because AFP is not conservative, it's right-wing, and it's not activist in the way you're used to thinking; AFP is of course a front group, with massive financial backing from the Koch brothers. Same guys who put considerable power behind the election of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Same guys slapped an anti-union tv ad up in that state designed to turn support back to the Governor.
Actually, as these state house and capitol building rallies spread all over the country, counter-rallies, where they've been held, have been anemic by comparison. Wonder what tomorrow will bring. |
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