Two Big Losers on Tuesday: Soros and the Unions
George Soros wasted untold millions of dollars in this last election and didn’t get much for his money : While Democrats went out of their way to portray the Koch brothers as evil billionaires puppeteering this election, I’d venture they feel pretty good about the outcome. However, after last night I’d venture that that George Soros is one unhappy Hungarian. Where the Kochs stood accused of funding some well-known grassroots political groups, Soros has been heavily invested in some pretty shady attempts at electioneering for Democrats. And fortunately, these efforts aren’t going very well. The first notable thing is Soros’ funding of the Secretary of State Project — which is basically an attempt to elect Secretaries of State around the country willing to impose Democratic-friendly election laws in an attempt to tilt the playing field in their favor on election day. Well, yesterday Republicans won 17 of 26 races for Secretary of State taking six of those offices (Arkansas, Ohio, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa and Kansas) from Democrats. Republicans now control 25 offices to Democrats 22. And then there was Soros’ backing of a measure in California to put control of redistricting back in the hands of the state legislature, a move that would obviously benefit Democrats. It failed, while another measure to give California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission increased authority over redrawing congressional districts succeeded. And the other loser was the unions. While the casino operators and their unions can probably claim credit for keeping Harry Reid around (and that will be a mixed blessing for Dems, that’s for sure), overall the unions had a pretty bad day. They invested tens of millions of their member’s dues to try and save Democrat seats and more than 60 of their allies got turned out. As Soros, the unions, and Meg Whitman proved, money can’t buy everything.
Two Big Losers on Tuesday: Soros and the Unions
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on November 4, 2010. Filed under