With Tuesday’s public hearing on the civil service eradication “reform” bill looming, and with Friday’s passing of AFSCME president Marty Beil, let me take you back to something I wrote less than one month after the failure to remove Scott Walker in the recall election of 2012. In that post, I criticized Beil and then-WEAC president Mary Bell for falling into the GOP trap of making the debate on public sector unions one that revolved around money and power, instead of reiterating the fact that unionism is a necessary check on political corruption, which allows public workers to be servants of the people, and not partisan hacks.

Via Destruction of civil service allows for destruction of public interest @ Jake’s Economic TA Funhouse.