Union Thugs Being Sent to Town Hall Meetings

People who have more than just a passing acquaintance with "mob" activities are coming to defense of Democrat congressmen in their town hall meetings:

The nation's largest federation of labor organizations has promised to directly engage with boisterous conservative protesters at Democratic town halls during the August recess.

In a memo sent out on Thursday, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney outlined the blueprint for how the union conglomerate would step up recess activities on health care reform and other topics pertinent to the labor community. The document makes clear that Obama allies view the town hall forums as ground zero of the health care debate....

"The principal battleground in the campaign will be town hall meetings and other gatherings with members of Congress in their home districts," reads the memo. "We want your help to organize major union participation to counter the right-wing "Tea-Party Patriots" who will try to disrupt those meetings, as they've been trying to do to meetings for the last month. ..."

Dumb move by Sweeney. Unions don't have the best approval numbers among Americans now, and using their members as paid goons isn't going to help their side in the heath care debate.