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Tag: government class. RMGN

Ballard, RMGN, Union Money: Stars Align in MSU Prof's State Pay Study

By Jack McHughs Blog, Section News
Posted on Tue Aug 18, 2009 at 04:01:41 PM EST
Tags: Ballard, government class. RMGN, medc, unions (all tags)

(Promoted by Nick...)

A new union-funded study by MSU economist Charles Ballard argues that state employee pay lags private sector averages. Interestingly, PR and media distribution for the study is being handled not by MSU, by the "Byrum-Fisk Advocacy Communications" agency, the same outfit that carried the PR ball for another union gambit, the notorious "Reform Michigan Government Now" ballot proposal last summer, the true purpose of which was exposed in a powerpoint discovered by a Mackinac Center intern on a union web site.

Ballard's actual study apparently can't be found on the MSU website - links to it only appear on SEIU and other union web sites. Byrum-Fisk included the study as an attachment in their emails to media outlets.

Byrum-Fisk is not the only RMGN connection. Ballard himself was an eager advocate for RMGN, writing in the Detroit News, "Michiganians interested in good government and real reform should seriously consider a ballot proposal called Reform Michigan Government Now."

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