Morning Briefing
For April 30, 2013
1. NRCC & GOP About to Give Labor Unions a Huge Win
It is an amazing testament to how bad the other candidates were that Mark Sanford ran away with the race in South Carolina’s first congressional district.
A deeply flawed man, he was the one guy the primary voters knew wouldn’t go wobbly in Washington. But they, and I, presumed he was over the issues with his ex-wife. Unfortunately, a couple of weeks ago we learned things were not settled.
The NRCC and GOP abandoned Mark Sanford as a result. In a race the GOP could still — even now — win, the GOP decided it would rather lose than win.
Unfortunately for the GOP, losing South Carolina’s Republican first congressional district will give labor unions a massive win.
The unions, which passionately hate Boeing producing the 787 in Charleston, have poured money in to help Elizabeth Colbert Busch. Right now, thanks to the NRCC pulling out of the race, the Democrats are outspending Mark Sanford three to one.
Yesterday, the Sanford campaign discovered Colbert-Bush has gotten a massive pile of money from another ultra-liberal group. But Republicans are doing nothing.
At this time, even with all Sanford’s flaws, it seems ridiculous that the GOP would give labor unions a massive win. The media will herald it as a rejection, even in South Carolina, of Republicans. The unions will herald it as a major win for big labor.
In the process. the first district would get a stooge for Nancy Pelosi and a puppet for labor unions against Boeing.
Mark Sanford can still win. But he’s going to need a lot of help. The chickens at the NRCC ran as quickly as they could. They need to man up and fight like hell. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Entrepreneurs: cartographers of the unexpected
Every now and then, you’ll see an optimistic headline declaring that the entrepreneurial spirit remains strong among our young people. Gallup produced a widely-cited poll along those lines in January, declaring that 43 percent of young people still plan to start their own business. That’s actually down 2 points from 2011, but it was still described as a “high and stable” level of entrepreneurial aspiration.
The problem is that Gallup polled students in the 5th through 12th grades. When the online career network AfterCollege performed a survey of twentysomething students, in coordination with a research firm called Millennial Branding, they found over 60 percent of respondents said they weren’t interested in starting their own company in the next few years, while only 8 percent described themselves as “very” interested. Almost half of the students responding to the survey had not been to a job interview in the past six months, so their outlook on working for someone else was also fairly grim. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. New Jersey Bypasses Medical Privacy To Assist Feds In Gun Control Registry
It used to be that medical records were private. Not anymore. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Colorado Violates Federal Law With Passage Of In-State Tuition Rate For Illegal Immigrants
Colorado’s orchestrated shift from 46 years of Republican rule to a progressive “utopia” where Democrats can use the state as a testing ground for policy gained more ground yesterday. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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