Posted by Michael Der Manouel, Jr. at 12:00 am on Oct 05, 2005 Comments Off on Prop 75 is THE Enchilada!
Excerpted from the Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2005
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made two big
announcements at last month’s Republican state convention. The
first was that he will seek a second term in 2006; the second was a
formal endorsement of Proposition 75, a ballot measure in the
November 8 special election that would affect how public-sector
unions can spend members’ dues. The second is more important to the
state’s long-run future. Mr. Schwarzenegger’s goals as governor
include shaking up Sacramento, where an intransigent legislature
beholden to special interests had turned the state into an economic
basket case. Arnold does have something to show for his efforts to
date, insofar as the fiscal bleeding seems to have stopped.
California’s credit rating is out of the gutter, and the economy
has created a quarter-million new jobs in the past year.
Still, important reforms remain unaddressed, and the passage of
Proposition 75, also known as “paycheck protection,” would go a
long way toward ending California politics-as-usual. By forcing
public-sector unions to get written permission from employees… Read More