This in just in from Lew Uhler, President of the National Tax Limitation Committee…

The Paycheck Protection Initiative is too important to California’s future for it to be used as a political weapon in California’s Republican Gubernatorial Campaign. I have it on the highest authority that Meg Whitman is not opposed to Paycheck Protection and that she is not urging her supporters to boycott the initiative or ignore it financially.

For Steve Poizner’s supporters to say otherwise is inaccurate and should stop. And now that public employee unions have announced a multimillion dollar independent expenditure campaign against Meg Whitman, she and her campaign supporters have ever more reason to engage the unions directly by supporting the paycheck protection initiative.

There is no stronger backer of Paycheck Protection than Meg Whitman’s Campaign Chairman, former Governor Pete Wilson. Pete was directly and actively engaged in the 1998 and 2005 (Prop. 75) initiative efforts. Jeff Randle, Meg Whitman’s campaign manager, was the professional manager of the1998 paycheck protection initiative. Nothing would please either of them more than to stop the automatic, involuntary deduction of political dues from the paychecks of California’s public employees, monies that are then used for candidates and ballot measures contrary to the values and preferences of many of the employees.

California’s voters are more aware than ever that the vast sums of money spent in campaigns for politicians who favor bigger government and bigger taxes is their money. It is their taxes, involuntarily deducted from public employee payrolls and transferred into public sector union coffers. This money, literally hundreds of millions of dollars each year, is then deployed in overwhelming force in political campaigns, in order to elect union controlled politicians who have driven California to the brink of financial catastrophe. The Paycheck Protection Initiative will stop this perversion of democracy, and give California back to the people.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.