For those of you unfamiliar with Washington lingual, K Street is prima facie just another street in D.C. But in actuality it is the most influential street in the District.

K Street is lobbying avenue. Most Washington lobbying institutions are located along the avenue. Many of these are lobbying firms with a myriad of clients, many are specific issue-based lobbying groups such as the NRA, AARP, the Turkish lobby, ect... I do not know how it happened, but some how a few lobbies settled on K Street and then every one else joined.

It has now - for good or ill - become a Washington institution. People use K Street as shorthand for lobbies they was Madison Avenue is used to mean advertising. HBO even produced a short-lived show on K Street.

I think K Street is mostly bad, because it represent a free-for-all where ever group thinks it should have access to tax payers money for, say, farm subsidies and other unconstitutional funding.

But sometimes K Street can be good, like this time:

Good old K Street, where the big tea party never stopped, has all but halted organized labor’s effort to make it easier for workers to unionize.

The unions were trying to pass legislation that would ended secret ballots. Even former Democrat president candidate George McGovern was against the idea. It would have allowed unions to intimidate workers who do not want to unionize, something they do now anyway. Unions are known to, for instance, write down license plates of workers to track them down. This was just a crude, unAmerican power grab by greedy union bosses.

This is not a debate about unionization. Of course, workers have the right to unionize. But they need to organize in a manner that respect all workers, their privacy and the democratic process.