Deconstructing the Op-Ed Writers: Columns on 1/2/09

The following columns appeared in today's N-J; the first two article links are to outside sites because the N-J hasn't posted them in their online edition.

The Triumph of Consensus by PAUL GREENBERG BIAS: CONSERVATIVE

• Greenberg describes himself as "an ideologically unreliable conservative."
• Coined the nickname "Slick Willie" for Bill Clinton
• Biography: Paul Greenberg

Obama must be Organizer in Chief by Eli Pariser BIAS: LIBERAL

• Pariser is president of MoveOn.org, a liberal PAC
• Pariser's bio

Businesses beware of Employee Free (Forced) Choice Act by Edward J. Capodanno BIAS: CONSERVATIVE

• Capodanno is president of the DE chapter of Associated Builders And Contractors (ABC), a pro-business, anti-union PAC
• Capodanno is Executive Director of The Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors Association of Delaware, a building trades organization
• Current issues ABC is currently involved in: Working against the Davis-Bacon Act, which outlaws wage exploitation in public construction contracts; Working against the Employee Free Choice Act, which aims to make it easier for employees to unionize; Working on Immigration Reform to reduce government oversight of "guest workers" hired by the construction industry; Working to banish trained union organizers and agents from member businesses to prevent so-called "salting abuse"; Working against Section 511 Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act, designed to make it more difficult for contractors to avoid paying income taxes