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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAffidavit Shows Cop Union Targeting Foes
Note this is a conservative and out there group. I'm surprised at this opinion from them.
http://reason.com/archives/2014/12/26/affidavit-shows-cop-union-targeting-foes
Indictments are a sideshow. Case spotlights a political 'playbook'
Steven Greenhut | December 26, 2014
My column last week was about two private investigators who allegedly set up a Costa Mesa councilman for a fake DUI. The PIs worked for a police-union law firm that represented the local union, which was dismayed by the councilman's policies (e.g., pension reform, outsourcing) and hired the firm to provide surveillance of them.
Is this ugly story a case of two rogue investigators or does it say more about the nature of unions?
I believe the latter, although union defenders I heard from insist it's the former. New information an affidavit filed by the Orange County district attorney in Superior Court last week bolsters my argument. It details the degree to which the Costa Mesa Police Officers Association was involved in political "games."
The PIs are accused of placing a GPS device on one councilman's car, and reporting a DUI on another councilman even though he wasn't drunk. No one alleges the union wanted the investigators to break the law, but the affidavit says some union officials wanted the law firm and its "candidate researchers" to track and embarrass political foes.
FULL story at link.
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Affidavit Shows Cop Union Targeting Foes (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Dec 2014
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upaloopa
(11,417 posts)1. I think this is an anti union story which
makes sense in right wing circles.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)2. They run libertartian there, no friends of any unions.
Randian, objectivist, babble.
I sometimes agree with them on foreign affairs, where they tend "isolationist", and culture war issues where they run libertarian, not so much with economics and regulation and taxation, where they run to "free market" babble.
They are supposed to be apolitical, public employees unions, that is one of the rules, and they are ignoring it, as does the defense bidness.