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Hugh Hewitt is clear--we lost in California because of the unions.
"Explanations are more plentiful than roses on Jan. 1, but the short answer is that California's public employee unions play to win -- and they do. The secular tithe extracted from the paychecks of the state's more than 350,000 government employees is expertly banked and deployed against any enemy, real or perceived, of the state's public-sector bosses.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's now famous glass jaw was revealed when, after the drubbing the unions gave him in a special election over crucial ballot reforms in November 2005, he rolled up into a big green ball and spent the balance of his tenure in office extolling the virtues of deindustrialization under the moniker "green jobs." At the time of his beat-down, Arnold complained that no one could win a ballot race in the face of $160 million in negative advertising."
This goes back to the late 1970's when then Gov. Brown gave unions the right to extort workers to pay or not work. In 2005 the California Teachers Association raised the bribes teachers had to pay by 25% or more--just to keep control of the State. The teachers were forced to pay or forced out of the classroom. Isn't that how totalitarian States are run?
Until we stop the extortion, California will stay in a union produced Depression.
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"Explanations are more plentiful than roses on Jan. 1, but the short answer is that California's public employee unions play to win -- and they do. The secular tithe extracted from the paychecks of the state's more than 350,000 government employees is expertly banked and deployed against any enemy, real or perceived, of the state's public-sector bosses.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's now famous glass jaw was revealed when, after the drubbing the unions gave him in a special election over crucial ballot reforms in November 2005, he rolled up into a big green ball and spent the balance of his tenure in office extolling the virtues of deindustrialization under the moniker "green jobs." At the time of his beat-down, Arnold complained that no one could win a ballot race in the face of $160 million in negative advertising."
This goes back to the late 1970's when then Gov. Brown gave unions the right to extort workers to pay or not work. In 2005 the California Teachers Association raised the bribes teachers had to pay by 25% or more--just to keep control of the State. The teachers were forced to pay or forced out of the classroom. Isn't that how totalitarian States are run?
Until we stop the extortion, California will stay in a union produced Depression.
More...