The Right's Brave Swingers; Republican Governors  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8751 (Sep. 2011), page 31-32.
Topik: Governors; Political Parties; Labor Relations; Labor Unions; Political Campaigns

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"Here's a great quote," says John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, reading from an article about the cuts he instigated to the state's subsidies for nursing homes, "'It took a real bastard to change things.'" Mr Kasich (pictured above) is one of a new crop of Republican governors, including Chris Christie of New Jersey, Rick Scott of Florida and Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who seem to relish putting noses out of joint. Their obstreperousness is all the more remarkable given that they are all from swing states, or, in the case of Mr Christie, a resolutely Democratic one. Whether their tactics will help to cement the Republicans' new-found advantage in those places or doom them to transience is a subject of heated debate. All four governors have caused a stir by taking on public-sector unions. Mr Christie, who was elected in 2009, a year before the others, fought a long and noisy campaign to get state and local employees to contribute more towards their health care and pensions, eventually winning over the state's Democratic legislature. The other three, not content with cutting employees' benefits, have all pushed for curbs on the unions themselves.

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