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Originally posted by cowtown
Union members must pay "fair share" dues regardless of whether they agree with the union or not. There is no choice at all.
So is it about union dues or political contributions?
"An earlier version appeared on the ballot in 1998 ...and was rejected by voters by 53 percent to 47 percent. ....It didn't matter in 1998 and seemingly doesn't now that union workers can already decline to have their dues spent on issues other than collective bargaining, but this is an ideological battle. "
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/04/BAGVPF28LB1.DTL
Did we have the best system right before Arnold got to office? I don't think you can pin that one on him.
Didn't say that. It started going downhill with Reagan and then Brown made it worse. But what sense does the longest tenure in the US make?
Redistricting could make a ton of difference if we can boot out some of these career democrats with their pet projects (no foi gras, illegal alien licenses,
limit on the number of pages in textbooks, etc ad infinitum).
So this is really just an attack on democrats and not really reform, isn't it?