BTW, GfinS, seein' that Gray is also a democrat it's no wonder that a dem would be behind in the polls...

Gotta agree with you on ther DC Teachers Union... It is an example of what can go wrong with unions but shouldn't be viewed as an argument for no unions... The benefits of unions have historically outweighed the negatives by far...

When union memebership was up at 33% back in the 50s and 60s the unemployment rate stayed at 4% year in and year out... Now that union emembers make up only 12% of the labor force the unemployment is double that... Worse than that wages for the working class have been stagnant for the last 30 years in the US while both unemployment and wages have done quite nicely in other industrialized nations even thru recessions...

B~