[Mister Baredog]

Proposition 75 supporters say the initiative is all about fairness, because the unions finance candidates and causes that many of their members might not favor — namely, Democratic ones.

Which is the whole point. YES on 75.

[2banana]

I am conservative, unless, of course, my pork is getting sliced...

[pogo101]

They contend Proposition 75 is designed to make it hopelessly cumbersome for them to raise election funds.

Yeah, it's really gonna be cumbersome: the union would need to get a little slip of paper from the member saying, "Yes, you can take extra money (beyond costs of collective bargaining alone) out of my paycheck for political purposes." Wow. Cumbersome.

[headsonpikes]

Public sector unions are morally indistinguishable from organized criminal gangs.

And the police unions are armed.

[Simmy2.5]

Both Mansoor and the president of the Assn. of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs said that its about 1,700 members are predominantly Republican. Even so, the union endorsed then-Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, for reelection in 2002. The association is now fighting Proposition 75.

Geez, I wonder why the unions doesn't want this to pass? You'd think they were undemocractic or something...

[TheOracleAtLilac]

Bob Baker is a union president

Says it all !

why would rank & file object ?

[CounterCounterCulture]

Bob Baker is a union president..."It's extremely unfair"

Go eat a donut and try not to sodomize somebody with a broomstick, pig.

[glaseatr]

Notice how this union thug is talking about the "Union" and not the rank and file members. The "Union" endorsed Gay Davis, the rank and file voted for the other guy...Aaahhnold.

Once upon a time very few would have caught this double-speak. Today we catch it because we've been ejumacated..(educated)