Crossroads GPS airs anti-union ad

[Swede]

An arm of American Crossroads, the well-financed Republican super PAC, is going up on the air Wednesday with an ad taking aim at public employee unions and highlighting the aid President Obama got in his campaign from organized labor.

“Why are Democrats shutting down state capitals?” asks a narrator with images of the protesters in Madison, Wis., on the screen. “To protect a system that pays unionized government workers 42 percent more than non-union workers, a system that collects hundreds of millions in mandatory dues to back liberals who support government unions.”



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[el_bryanto]

1. The storyline should be the Corporate America has more successfully

kept wages down in the private sector. That's the scandal, or should be. But instead it's this.

Bryant

[emulatorloo]

2. So did POLITICO bother to --> FACT CHECK this ad?

Of course not.

[ProSense]

3. CNN couldn't bother to cover the protests, but

the media will certainly give the union-busting GOP a lot of coverage.

CNN: Republican group takes aim at unions

The Hill: Video seizes on union leader's boast of daily contact with White House