Complaining about contributions

The  November 21 2018 Buffalo News has an article that complains about the working class unfairly influencing the NY State elections in 2018.  It's called "After heavy spending, donors seek returns." 

The group that they take their biggest swipe at is the unions. Specifically NYSUT - NewYork State Teachers United) and the the CWA (Communication Workers of America).  The article does list some other big spenders, but as a whole,  it takes a big swipe at NYSUT.  It's this side of a hit piece, if not an outright hit piece.  The only thing that "mitigates" that in any way is the part about Airbnb.)

And they have the complaints from the Republicans that they were out spent.  It wasn't  "Blue Wave." It was green and it had strings attached,  which is wrong for the working class but ok for the 1% and Republican donors?

Teachers want classroom evaluations done fairly. That's fine.  And they do not want the Federally mandated tests to be used punitively against them. Good.  I'm still waiting for someone, anyone to show me a peer reviewed study that shows that all this testing improves  teaching and learning.

Crickets.

And that is all we will hear on that issue because there is no proof that any of this testing works. 

The big problem is that the members of the working class unitied together and fought to elect politicians that would pass legislation that would benefit them as a whole and screw over the 1% is somehow a crime.

The Buffalo News  eeds to realize that if the working class cancelled its subscription to the paper it would fold tomorrow.  Warren Buffet is not going to investin something that does not make him money.  As long as the News is a cash cow for him,  they have his finances.  Which means that the News needs to look at its readership and start reporting stories that reflect the interests and needs of the working class. 

I read plenty of criticisms about unions and issues involving unions.  I do not remember the News writing anything recently about money from donors outside of NYS influencing elections.  If David & Charles Koch had donated millions to NY Republicans and they were elected, would that be a  issue? Probably not.

We need campaign finance reform, to be sure.  But it should not target the working class memebers of the state uniting together to fight back against corporate control.  The News needs to recognize this and get in the correct side of history.