Labor Bosses Prepare For “Drive By Shooting” Of June Initiatives
Early last week, along with our friends the Boyz at CalBuzz and Joel Fox at F&HDaily, we broke the story that there was a lot of “back room chatter” about an idea that the unions have been floating – to have their tools in the state legislature push through a new law that would expressly prohibit ballot initiatives from appearing on the statewide June ballot each election year. The primary reason for this is situational, of course. The unions think that they are at a political disadvantage if an initiative measure appears on the June ballot to ban direct contributions to candidates by unions (or corporations) and that prohibits government (or corporations) from taking funds from employee payments for political purposes. Well, we’ve heard from one of… Read More