Been traveling since early this morning to Chicago area so this is a bit later. But, read this in The Wall Street Journal on the plane:

In an alliance born in part of fear, corporate executives across Colorado pledged to contribute at least $3 million to help organized labor defeat ballot measures that many in the business community might normally support.

More than 75 chief executives — including the heads of major companies such as Xcel Energy Inc. and Qwest Communications International Inc. — agreed to donate money and time to the union cause.

In return, the unions agreed to drop four ballot measures they had backed. Those measure would have, among other things, required companies with at least 20 employees to provide health insurance and allowed injured employees to sue for damages outside the workers’ compensation system.

The measures had broad populist appeal and some analysts said they were likely to pass, at enormous expense to businesses.

Under the deal announced Thursday, business leaders will join the Teamsters, the National Education Association and other labor groups to try to defeat three anti-union measures that remain on the November ballot. These include a "right to work" constitutional amendment, backed by an heir to the Coors brewery fortune, that would allow workers in unionized shops to opt out of paying union dues.

   How about ‘dem apples?