Bothersome Words From Senator Orrin Hatch on Glenn Beck

The unions have admitted that they have put a billion dollars into local, state and federal elections over the last two years.  And I think it’s more than that.  Now, of that billion dollars, about $950 million of it is not reported anywhere in the campaign rules because we’ve never had the 60 votes to make them conform to the rules like everybody else has to. And they use that $950 million to get out the vote for Democrats.  Republicans have nothing to compare with that.  We have to win on logic and good programs and we’re finding that more and more of our young people are looking for free handouts and the easy way of life and because all they get are platitudes and generalities from the Democrats who are moving us towards, you know, towards what by any measure is a measure of socialism.

Senator Orrin Hatch in an interview with Glenn Beck on November 4, 2008.