Guards union adds insult to injury

Steven Greenhut, The Orange County Register (Updated March 22, 2010) Still, we should celebrate good ideas. And Baugh – who told me Tuesday that he accepts his share of the blame for this situation – ended his talk with a good proposal: "No candidate will be supported by this party who receives contributions and endorsements from public employee unions." Now we're getting somewhere. Union power needs to be attacked at its many sources, whether it means proposing pay and benefit cuts that are best for taxpayers but anger union officials, forcing unions to pay their tab to the state or exerting some countervailing political pressure to union muscle. It's heartening that more California officials are recognizing this truth...