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To: miraje who wrote (445232)	8/19/2003 5:59:04 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

. Yet not a word from Bustamante about the bloated state bureaucracy and overpaid, parasitic public employee unions There must have been a word from Bustamante about the unions. I think it was YES......we know what the question was. Big union endorses Bustamante, threat of legal delay wanes By James P. Sweeney and Dana Wilkie COPLEY NEWS SERVICE 8:28 p.m., August 18, 2003 SACRAMENTO – Organized labor's attempt to reserve all of its political firepower for Gov. Gray Davis in the recall campaign began to crumble Monday when three major unions endorsed Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante as an alternative candidate. The California State Employees Association, followed by the Association of Highway Patrolmen, said they will embrace Bustamante's campaign theme, urging their members and the public to oppose the recall but vote for Bustamante should Davis be removed. The carpenters' union simply endorsed Bustamante. They are the first to abandon labor's call to coalesce behind the embattled Democratic governor as the best stategy against the recall. Several more powerful unions also are openly pondering spreading their support around.

To: miraje who wrote (445232)	8/19/2003 7:26:44 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 769670

the high tech industry is all for the reassess of commercial property taxes. This is the prop 13 loophole that allows all these deadwood companies that used to be here in the 70s effectively pay no taxes. It keeps uncompetitive businesses here when they should go. ordinarily business does not support reassessing, or raising taxes so you know if an industry supports it (as the tech industry supports dumping this law)- there is a corrupt or unfair aspect of it.