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...been placed on the AP NationalPlayer of the Year ballot and had not earnedFirst, Second or Third-Team honors. HonorableMention was darn good for an Ivy Leaguer, but manyconsidered it a slight...
California Republicans have railed against bilingual education for years, accusing it of producing a culturally alien, economically hopeless immigrant underclass. So when millionaire businessman Ron Unz placed a measure on this June's ballot that would abolish the program, the state G.O.P. jumped onboard, right? Not exactly. "I have not endorsed [Proposition 227]. I will not put a penny into it," says state party chairman Michael Schroeder. The likely G.O.P. gubernatorial nominee, Dan Lungren, hasn't taken a position. Neither has Bill Leonard, the party's leader in the state assembly...
...lost, but maybe only in the short term. He sharpened his grievance to a very fine point. It's now aimed straight at organized labor--and not incidentally, the Democratic Party--in every part of the country. With two other conservative activists, he drew up Proposition 226, a ballot initiative that California voters will decide on June 2. It would require unions to get annual written permission from each member before using any part of membership dues for political purposes...
...ways that favored Democrats. Now the G.O.P., which tried and failed two years ago to get a bill nearly identical to Prop. 226 through Congress, is hoping that 226 will propel the dues-permission idea across the U.S. At least eight states are considering the same kind of ballot measure. Supporters of 226 say it's a fairness issue. Why should union members have to finance campaigns for candidates or ideas that the workers may not support? In recent years some California unions have backed the controversial initiative to legalize medical marijuana and opposed the popular referendum on illegal aliens...
...nowhere until help came from Norquist's group and J. Patrick Rooney, a conservative Indiana insurance executive who had launched a privately funded school-voucher experiment in Indianapolis. Together they provided most of the financing, nearly half a million dollars, for the petition drive that put 226 on the ballot. Then California Governor Pete Wilson signed on. For Wilson, who as mayor of San Diego regularly battled public-employee unions in the 1970s, Prop. 226 also provided the satisfaction of payback to the teachers' union. Over the years, the C.T.A. has squared off against him on school vouchers, statewide-testing...