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Cue tiny violins: AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka whines about how 'money pollutes politics'

As Twitchy reported earlier, Republican Scott Walker won re-election in Wisconsin.

In Michigan, Rick Snyder, the Republican governor who signed that state’s “Right to Work” legislation into law, has also been declared victorious.

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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, whose union contributed millions this year toward efforts to elect union-friendly politicians, blasted the presence of money in politics for the Walker and Snyder victories:

“Big money backers”? That’s funny.

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Get out the tiny violins and bask in the irony.


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