Who thinks it's good for public employee unions to fund the politicians that they negotiate with over wages and working conditions?

FDR thought it was a horrible idea.  So evidently do most voters.  But the Democrats at the end of the money conveyor with their pockets bulging - they dig it.  And as was demonstrated in Wisconsin will break laws, constitutions, contracts and the basic human norms of decency to keep their gravy going.  The estimable Ann Althouse:

In the NYT: "Union Leaders Gird for Battle Against Republican Running for Governor of Illinois."

While struggles over the role of unions have boiled over in recent years in Republican-held Midwestern states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio, a fight in Illinois, President Obama’s home state and a Democratically controlled union stronghold, marks new ground. His Democratic opponent in November, Gov. Pat Quinn, is seen as vulnerable....

“I’m not anti-union,” [Rauner] said last week. His complaint, he says, is with public sector union leaders who donate to political leaders. “When government union power can influence politicians in the contract negotiations for pensions, for pay scales, for health care, it’s a direct financial incentive — in effect as a bribe — with someone across the negotiating table.”