Right-To-Work

So I got this e-mail from MoveOn today, with a link to a petition that one of its members had put together. The petition opposes the new right-to-work legislation with which the majority Republicans are currently tyrannizing the minority in the Indiana House of Representatives. I’m not 100% sure where I stand on right-to-work (despite being married to someone who belongs to a union), and I’d like to read more about it, though without any of the spin that I imagine I would get from the “sources” on each side. The Republicans support the measure, which means it’s probably bad, but I don’t get the impression that it’s like the social conservative issues, which are pretty much black and white and about which Republicans and conservatives are completely incorrect.

There was a Contact link on the web page where you actually signed the petition, so I sent an e-mail to the guy who set it up, asking if he might point me in the direction of some good information. Hopefully I will get more of a response from him—read, any kind of response at all—than I have gotten from various Republicans I have contacted in the last few months, including John Gregg, Mike Pence, and Cindy Kirchhofer. (And yes, I am well aware that, being a MoveOn person, he is likely to steer me toward left-leaning sources. As long as it’s not cherry-picked studies from either of the sides directly involved in the process, or the shady fund-raising groups that they have in their employ, I don’t really care where it comes from.)

This is yet another minor attempt at civic action on my part. I know it’s not much, and I know that Indiana will never be cured of its conservative sickness until all of the liberals and moderates stand up and make their voices heard—which, yes, involves more than just signing internet petitions and writing the occasional incendiary blog post that almost no one reads—but right now, this is pretty much all that I can do. It’s not enough, and I know that, and it’s there in my head to work on it more; but there are a lot of other things in my head that I’m also trying to work on, and there just isn’t enough time in the day for all of those things.