Will North Dakota Democrats Call Labor Union Ads “Out Of State Hatchet Jobs” Too?
The folks at Common Sense North Dakota have been flooding the state’s radio airwaves with this ad critical of Senators Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad for taking money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:
This prompted the North Dakota Democrat party to scramble to the defense of our two liberal Senators with a radio ad of their own condemning the “out of state” Common Sense North Dakota people as airing a “hatchet job.” We’re told by the Democrats to tell the Common Sense people that this “isn’t the way we do politics in North Dakota.”
Of course, the outrage from the Democrats at someone daring to criticize Conrad or Dorgan is a bit…contrived given that the state Democrat party itself gets about 80% of its funding from out of state contributors. And that Conrad and Dorgan themselves routinely have contribution totals that consist of 90 - 95% out of state contributors.
Anyway, here’s a test for North Dakota’s Democrats who are apparently so committed to keeping the state’s political landscape clear of the nefarious influences of out of state interests: LIUNA, a construction industry union, is going to be running some ads asking Senator Kent Conrad not to support the taxing of health care benefits. Or, at least, not to support the taxing of union health care benefits.
Will North Dakota’s Democrats condemn this labor union as a mustache-twirling out of stater with no business running political ads in this state? Or is it ok when liberals do it?
