Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas seems to be connecting the dots in the brouhaha over the Employee Free Choice Act, along with a few others. Let’s follow Senator Lincolns plausible stream of thought: the largest employer in Arkansas is…WalMart. Analysts at Citigroup in New York downgraded their WalMart recommendation to a hold instead of a buy because…passage of the EFCA could force increased labor costs and limit expansion. I want to be seen on the side of the Employee Free Choice Act because…I’m for loss of jobs for my constituency???
Although Lincoln was in favor of the EFCA in the 2007 debate, she is now hedging her bets.
“Right now, my number one priority is strengthening our state’s economy and putting 90,000 jobless Arkansans back to work,” Lincoln said in a statement.
Even if reason doesn’t seem to prevail, if opponents of this horrible legislation can focus the energies of some of the larger business interests at other Democratic Senators, the bill may yet be defeated, at least in it’s most egregious form.
