Ya think?

From today's Tribune Review:

Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato, the Democrats' nominee for governor, says it "probably" was wrong when Community College of Allegheny County initially required a coming construction project to use 90 percent union labor.

Probably?  PROBABLY?  If you haven't followed it, our boy Dan has been behind $21 million construction project for the local community college.  The bids for this job were recently cancelled after a lawsuit challenged the process as unfair to regular business.

Hey, it's unfair to us taxpayers also, on two levels.  First, the building costs us more because rather than using the lowest qualified bidder we have pay higher rates for union wages.   Second, when we are trying to put people back to work, rewarding your buddies first is the worst kind of nepotism.  The AFL-CIO and other unions just "unanimously" endorsed Dan's run for governor, because they know who puts the butter on their bread.  They know an Onorato administration means they get the prime pick of state and federal projects.

This sort of thinking is nothing new - Rendell has been bragging about the number of jobs the stimulus created, every single one of them a road construction job staffed by union labor.  President Obama recently boasted about the jobs saved by taking over GM.  Again, union labor.  We need hundreds of millions more for schools (to pay for union teacher salaries and pensions).  We need millions more for public transit (to cover the pensions of union drivers).

Dan Onorato and his friends care about you, and care about getting Pennsylvanians back to work. 

... well, Pennsylvanians with union cards.