Right To Work Prez Calls Out Newt’s Hypocrisy

October 31, 2009 | Filed Under Conservatives, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Liberals, Republicans, Unions, Warner Todd Huston |

-By Warner Todd Huston

National Right to Work President Mark Mix is calling on Newt Gingrich to rescind his endorsement of Dede Scozzafava, the liberal candidate chosen by New York’s GOP powermen for the special election for the 23rd District Congressional seat. The reason? Scozzafava is a supporter of the Employee Free Choice Act and Newt has said he isn’t.

Liberal Republican Scozzafava has announced her support of the EFCA and its card check feature, a bill that will give unions a free hand to intimidate workers during the election period for voting on union representation. On the other hand, Newt Gingrich is in such opposition to card check that he once sponsored a petition against the EFCA.

Back in March, Gingrich created a video for American Solutions decrying card check and informing the viewers that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost with card check. Newt strongly supported the American Solution petition drive titled Freedom Not Fear drive.

Yet now Newt is supporting a candidate that supports the very job-killing bill that he was so strongly against only a few months ago?

This is why Mark Mix is saying that Newt’s apostasy “is an outrage.”

“Newt Gingrich has collected signatures and raised funds from supporters of employee freedom, and now he is stabbing them in the back by supporting Big Labor Republican Dede Scozzafava.”

“Gingrich owes these Americans an apology, and he should immediately rescind his endorsement of Scozzafava so that Big Labor doesn’t have bipartisan cover in the House of Representatives to pass the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill.”

I can’t say that Mr. Mix’s logic has any flaws in it. After all, how can Newt get all exercised over the evils of card check in March and then in October support a candidate that would vote to put the same bill into place?

So what will it be? Will Newt continue this seemingly hypocritical behavior? Well, Newt was saved from having to make the decision since Scozzafava dropped out of her obviously doomed candidacy on Saturday. In that case, Newt went a head and announced that he’d support Doug Hoffman.

Whatever the case, Newt did himself no favors with this incident.

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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.

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