They are trying to destroy safeguards that protect us from harm and ensure that we have a voice in our state capitals. That's why it is critical that our legislators hear a diversity of voices. If they don't, ALEC and its friends in big business will push through their agenda at our expense.

Government, when managed correctly, can and does work for the people. That is why I am especially thankful as we begin the holiday season that we have reelected a president who believes in the power of government.

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On the other hand, most of the candidates vying to run against Obama would rip apart the public-sector worker system that has provided for decades of middle-class families. That is why elections are so important.

We now face a new, but equally dangerous threat to the safety of our pensions, and it's coming from an unexpected source. It threatens not only the health of our pensions but our very ability to control them.

After 22 years of court-supervised free elections and disciplinary actions, organized crime's influence in the IBT has been nearly eradicated. The only blight on this extraordinary experiment in union democracy initiative is low voter turnout.

President Obama should repudiate Jimmy Hoffa's degrading language now. If the Teamsters start talking about "war" and "taking out" the SOBs fifteen months ahead of the 2012 elections, what will we descend to on election day?

Dave Hansen, a 20-year Teamster, is one of the 14 Democratic senators from Wisconsin who courageously left their state in a show of solidarity that has captured the attention of the nation.