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CSEA endorses Phu Nguyen for 68th Assembly District |
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The CSEA Board of Directors has endorsed Democrat Phu Nguyen for the 68th Assembly race in west-central Orange County. The Orange Field Office worked the primary campaign aggressively and Nguyen emerged the primary winner with 57.7% of the vote. The heavy lifting comes in the Fall. Nguyen who is endorsed by OC Democrat stallwarts Loretta Sanchez, Lou Correa and Jose Solorio will face Republican Allan Moonsoor in November. Monsoor, the Republican is the mayor of Costa Mesa. What makes this race intriguing, is that the 68th Assembly district which spans parts of west Anaheim, Stanton, Westminster, Garden Grove aand Costa Mesa, is one of the few truly swing Assembly district's in California. While a Democrat has never won the district, they have come close on a number of occassions. The 68th district is important to CSEA and all other worker's rights organizations in that it would put the Assembly one friendly vote closer to overcoming the "tryranny of the minority" caused by California's unique 2/3rd voting requirement. The race promises to be one of the more interesting ones in all of California, given the large presence of traditionally Republican leaning Vietnamese voters and the infusion of support for Nguyen from Democratic Latino caucus. Stay tuned here in the comming months to learn how you can help elect Phu Nguyen in the 68th. |
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Amy Traub | June 16, 2010 Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com)
Conservatives have declared a new class war, but it's not on bankers earning seven-figure bonuses. Instead, as Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels told Politico recently, the "new privileged class in America" is government employees, who "are better paid than the people who pay their salaries." We have to escape "public sector unions' stranglehold on state and local governments," agreed Mort Zuckerman, billionaire editor of U.S. News & World Report, "or it will crush us." Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot ominously predicts "a showdown looming across the country between taxpayers and public employee unions over pay and pensions," while the Heritage Foundation warns that "the more the government taxes, the more it can pay its unionized workers."
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