Labor & Employment Law

Beck Shills for Chamber

By Mike Hall

Right-wing radio zealot Glenn Beck apparently has decided that all that foreign money coming into the Chamber of Commerce?s kitty just isn?t enough to buy an election.

Today he announced he was donating $10,000 to the Chamber and urged his listeners to chip in, too.

Beck is the same guy who called the long-term unemployed un-American, anti-capitalist, socialist losers and who verbally attacked an 80-year-old union activist for speaking at a high school, among other just as outrageous and reactionary rants.

The Chamber, for its part, doesn?t have much respect or use for workers, either. It?s spending $75 million to promote candidates who oppose new rules to discourage U.S. firms from shipping jobs overseas, want to repeal the minimum wage and weaken workplace safety and collective bargaining laws rules. That?s just the short list.

Maybe Beck?s disclosure of his contribution will spur the Chamber to step out from behind the shield of a weak election law and reveal just who else is funding its political attack machine….Nah.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).