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[PUBLISHING NOTE: IT’S REALLY WEDNESDAY! Your weary correspondent will be up at 4:30 a.m. here in the nation’s capitol to catch a flight to the West Coast so…this will have to do for your Wednesday feeding until perhaps later in the day] I hear that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel, ex-Clintonista and […]

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So, let’s sort through yesterday’s elections. I’m not buying into the conventional wisdom that the Democratic Party should be dancing in the streets, or that labor should be celebrating. Positive: in California, the trend over the last few weeks held–and everyone of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s propositions went down to defeat. The vote was not overwhelming but […]

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Another piece today–this one coming in The Washington Post–sees the Schwarzenegger-backed propositions going down to defeat (registration required). This seems to be now a trend over the past week or so, as we’ve been discussing here. The propositions would, the piece says, give the governor far more power. “But three recent polls, by the Public […]

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Well, it looks like the propositions in California are going down to defeat–though something could shift between now and Election Day. According to a new Field Poll, all four of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ballot initiatives appear to be headed for defeat, including Prop 75 which was directly aimed at crippling the labor movement’s political operations. Making […]

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We’ve been following, from time to time, the situation with Proposition 75, which is an Arnold Schwarzenegger-backed initiative that would require government employee unions to give prior notice to members before using dues on political activity. Here is a poll that looks at the support for Prop 75 and a set of other propositions. The […]

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This is a must-read op-ed column in the Los Angeles Times (registration required). It’s by Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell from 2002 to 2005. Wilkerson has been all over the news recently after he described the White House cabal, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, […]

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Good piece in today’s Los Angeles Times looking at who supports Prop 75, the Arnold Schwarzenegger-backed initiative that is trying to cripple the ability of unions to spend money on political activities. Guess what, it’s not the union workers themselves. Here is a snippet with the rest of the article available by registering: Union Members […]

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I’ve been pretty vocal about my distaste for the weak leadership exhibited by the Democratic Party–can you imagine if the Republicans were handed the kind of political environment the Dems have been handed? They would crush their opposition–but the Democratic Party just seems incapable of finding a voice… But, one of the people down there […]

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This video clip doesn’t need any commentary–it speaks for itself.

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I was scratching my head a bit about all the praises being sung by some of you’all for Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg in response to yesterday’s post about the teachers’ contract in NY. And, then, this a.m. The New York Times helps the discussion a bit with the headline: “Mayor May Not Shout G.O.P. But […]

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