Divide & Conquer: Hoping For An Implosion, Union Bosses Are Buying Their Way Into The Republican Party

Both Mother Jones and the National Journal are covering this story from the Left and the Right (respectively).
However, it appears that a union-bought ex-politician from Ohio is attempting to drive a bigger wedge into the ranks of the Republican Party.
His name is Steve LaTourrette. He’s a former Congressman and he has always been in unions’ back pocket.
Here’s what he’s up to via Mother Jones:

The Republican Main Street Partnership, led by former Ohio Congressman Steven LaTourette, plans to spend millions of dollars in the 2014 midterm elections supporting what it calls “the governing wing of the GOP.” LaTourette’s group aims to give political support and air cover to more moderate Republicans open to compromise in Congress, neutralizing the efforts of conservative stalwarts such as the Club for Growth and getting Ted Cruz-style hardliners out of Congress. The Main Street Partnership is a hybrid entity—part super-PAC, which can raise and spend unlimited sums of money but must disclose its activities, and part nonprofit, which can accept anonymous donations but can’t focus primarily on campaigns and elections.
LaTourette has said his group plans to get involved in eight to 10 Republican primaries, and the Main Street Partnership has raised nearly $2 million to date. Yet according to National Journal, a good chunk of that money comes from two unlikely sources: the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Laborers’ International Union of North America.
That’s right: Two prominent labor unions are underwriting a group stoking the civil war that threatens to tear apart the Republican Party. Documents reviewed by National Journal show that the two unions have together given $400,000 to the Main Street Partnership, accounting for 20 percent of the group’s funds.

As the saying goes: With “friends” like these, who needs enemies?