Re: Fair Elections Initiative? (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:52:38 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > this is what the progressive alliance wants

I definitely would not call labor "big".

Actually, I wish it were as big as big business.

 >  > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:42:58 +0000 (UTC)
 >  > From: "Nextdoor Japantown" <http://www.rs.email.nextdoor.com/~reply>
 >  > 
 >  > Nextdoor Nextdoor Japantown
 >  > 
 >  > Fair Elections Initiative?
 >  > 
 >  > Robert Wright, Julian - St. James 
 >  > 
 >  > I had a young, seemingly earnest young man knock on my door the other 
 >  > evening
 >  > asking me to support the "where-I-live Fair Elections Initiative." It is part of
 >  > the "Silicon Valley Rising" campaign.  I'm all for fair elections, and I don'
 >  > t
 >  > like seeing how big business political donations have impacted our quality 
 >  > of
 >  > life, but neither do I like seeing the role that big labor has played. (I'm
 >  > still upset that all of our libraries were razed just so it would employ a 
 >  > lot
 >  > of people to build new ones.) I don't like seeing the huge amount of money
 >  > that Sam Liccardo gets from Clear Channel, but neither do I like the 
 >  > knee-jerk
 >  > agenda of big labor.  So, what's the deal with this initiative and the
 >  > "Silicon Valley Rising" campaign? Is it an effort to get Cortese elected and
 >  > to further empower the South Bay Labor Council? Can anybody direct me to 
 >  > some
 >  > sources so I can become better informed?