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To: Sarah Barracuda

More info on 32.

Public employee unions take a percentage of their members dues and send for political lobbying and campaign donations.

Their is an obscure federal law that members can withhold that % and donate to non-profits etc. It’s called in-kind contributions.

However, neither the unions nor the state tell the employees they can withhold that portion of their dues and pay in-kind.

a few years ago, “we” voted to not require the unions to tell the members about this., after the unions did a lot of misleading ads.

My wife withheld her political contribution because the union gave money to politicians who support abortion. It took the union 2 weeks to “find” the form and three officers tried to talk her out of it.

32 will require information and more employees will opt out if they don’t ;ike where the union spends their money.

I support prohibiting unions and contractors from donating to those who they negotiate their contracts with, but don’t know how to get it passed. The current system is merely a different form of bribery and the tax payers suffer.


80 posted on 10/05/2012 9:11:42 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

Thanks for giving me the info about Prop 32. I had seen ads for it(Both for and against) but wasn’t sure what it was all about..now that I know I will definitely vote YES on Prop 32. I hate unions, they are destroying this state bit by bit so anything that unions oppose I am for


81 posted on 10/05/2012 3:42:50 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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