Public employees who are Republican

[SHRED]

Why?
I work with some and cannot figure them out.

Why vote for a party that is hellbent on privatizing and thus ruining your public service career?
Why vote for a party that is out to strip you of all rights to collective bargain and negotiate a contract?

Why anyone in the working-class votes Republican is one thing...why any public employee votes that way is a whole other level of ignorant.


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[Horse with no Name]

1. I ask myself that all of the time

and the best that I can come up with is that the propaganda is so FIERCE that people that watch Faux and "think" they know what is going on--are actually "low-information" voters...yet they don't consider themselves as such.

[SHRED]

2. very well put

My coworkers who claim to be "conservative" do listen to the AM radio talkshows and FAUX Noise almost exclusively.
One guy told me he hates what they say about public employees yet agrees with "everything else" they say.

Wow...just wow.

[Mr. Jefferson]

3. Fire all Public employees who are Republican.

Two birds killed with one stone.

[Dreamer Tatum]

6. Put them to death, too. nt

[demosincebirth]

4. Why do some union members vote republilcan?

[madrchsod]

5. the president of the largest public union where i live..

is a republican. he told my wife that he separates his personal politics and what is best for his membership.

my wife is the secretary- treasure of her local public union and the president is a teabagger that can`t separate the two.

[SHRED]

7. These people are sick

They are walking talking contradictions.

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[madrchsod]

9. in the case of my wife`s president...

he`s an asshole who thinks women should be seen not heard but...my wife`s family were all union members and she`s been in two and helped organized another.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. My family is FULL of them.

They moan and groan constantly about the evils of big gummint, and yet they line up at the trough every payday.

I do not get it, either.

[Omaha Steve]

10. We have them in my local too

Last Oct. as I was calling AFSCME members, I got the I'm a Republican response several times.

[Kat45]

11. It pisses me off when people who hate goverment have government jobs

Why do they apply for them? Why do they get them? It makes no sense at all. I like government and believe it can do a lot of good. I wish I could get a government job. I've always wanted to work for the government, but being in my fifties now I doubt that I ever will. And these assholes who hate government and do whatever they can (by their votes, for example) to curtail government so it can't help anyone else--are getting great benefits, good pay, etc. when they don't deserve it!

[Ohio Joe]

12. Why anyone other then very rich white men vote repug is beyond me - nt

[janet118]

13. Two words - gay Republicans

Log Cabin Republicans? What is with them?

[LibDemAlways]

14. I have a cousin who recently retired at age 50 from the

Princeton, NJ, police department. He has a generous pension which will allow him to continue to live a very comfortable life. He is a die-hard Republican. Go figure.