A video of outgoing South Carolina AFL-CIO president Donna Dewitt smacking around a pinata with Gov. Nikki Haley‘s face on it made the rounds Tuesday afternoon, and the governor isn’t impressed.
Haley spokesperson Rob Godfrey told Yeas & Nays that “there is no place for that in civil public discourse.” He added this dig at union leadership: “That video no more represents the people of South Carolina than union bosses represent our workers.”
The relationship between the governor’s office and organized labor hasn’t exactly been rosy, and Dewitt’s retirement party pinata isn’t likely to warm things up. A national AFL-CIO leader’s email to state officials sought to get the video removed from YouTube, though it was up long enough to catch the eye of the governor, who tweeted, “Wow. I wonder if the unions think this kind of thing will make people take them seriously.”
