by Jon Ortiz
We're months from when the real fighting starts, but already the labor union and business interests on opposite sides of a November ballot measure are honing their messages.
"The Stop Special Interest Money Now Act" would ban both unions and corporations from contributing directly to candidates. Both could still fund independent expenditure campaigns to support them.
The measure, which hasn't been assigned a proposition number yet, is especially tough on labor because it would ban all payroll-deducted contributions - unions' primary method of raising money for those independent expenditure committees.
Corporations, by contrast, raise the bulk of their political money from shareholders and executives.
Look for labor to attack the measure as faux political reform that kneecaps unions - and, by extension, the working class - and leaves the power of "the 1 percent" virtually unchallenged.
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We're months from when the real fighting starts, but already the labor union and business interests on opposite sides of a November ballot measure are honing their messages.
"The Stop Special Interest Money Now Act" would ban both unions and corporations from contributing directly to candidates. Both could still fund independent expenditure campaigns to support them.
The measure, which hasn't been assigned a proposition number yet, is especially tough on labor because it would ban all payroll-deducted contributions - unions' primary method of raising money for those independent expenditure committees.
Corporations, by contrast, raise the bulk of their political money from shareholders and executives.
Look for labor to attack the measure as faux political reform that kneecaps unions - and, by extension, the working class - and leaves the power of "the 1 percent" virtually unchallenged.
Read entire article at SacBee.com >>