Today the California Correctional Peace Officers Association endorsed Phil Angelides for Governor. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Let’s remember that this is not a interest group focused on making the prison system better, it is a public employee union. As such, they only care about the wages and benefits and working conditions of their members. This union is notorious for the political activitism and boast that they will spend millions for the candidates they endorse.
I’m sure Arnold Schwarzenegger is shaking in his snakeskin books.
Public employee unions are a significant part of our problems in Sacramento because they only sing from one play sheet — how do we get our employees more money and more benefits, and how do we create more government jobs? For them, the solution to every problem is simple – grow the size and scope of the government. Pay us more. Give us more benefits. Hire more of us.
I’m sure we’ll be reading more about the impact of this endorsement. But one that is certainly good is that it makes it just that much easier for Governor Schwarzenegger, politically, to tell these guys to pound sand.