Poilce officers have always been quite conservative as Broward PBA President Patrick Hanrihan points out:

The PBA may be a union, but it's not traditionally a bunch of liberals. "You'd be surprised," says Broward PBA President Patrick Hanrihan. "I think most of our police officers and stuff are Republicans." Well, until the party-switching party, that is.



Hanrahan has made it clear that republicans will no longer be able to count on the votes and support of police officers in Florida:



"We've been supporting Republican governors for the past 20 years," Hanrihan continued. But this one's antics may be too much for the traditionally red-voting, gun-wielding, meat-eating, hippie-busting (OK, we'll stop) cops to stomach.

The reason for the police union anger is virtually the same as the reason for union anger across America towards recently elected republican governors such as Scott Walker of Wisconsin and John Kasich of Ohio.

"[Governor Scott's] union dues deduction bill is a flat-out union-busting bill," says Hanrihan. "Under the law, a government agency wouldn't be allowed to collect union dues if it was involved in political campaigns." He notes that Scott had "no problem" taking money from the police union in the past election. Scott did get significant pushback on the bill from some Republican representatives, but the House eventually passed it.

You don't have to be a police officer, or even a union member to attend the rally. Here are the details:

On Saturday, July 16, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. behind the PBA headquarters on SW 26th Terrace in Fort Lauderdale, the union will have elections officials standing by to register new voters or switch party registrations for anyone with a valid Florida

ID.

What is going on in Florida is a firm indication that there is something happening in America that is waking up the labor movement from Wisconsin to Florida to Maine to Ohio to Michigan and all across America, and it's no longer just a liberal based movement.

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