SEIU Head Cautions Against Ballot Initiative on Taxes
On Wednesday, David Kieffer -- executive director of the Service Employees International Union California State Council -- said lawmakers should seek a bipartisan agreement to extend taxes rather than put the issue before voters later this year. Kieffer said his group would not necessarily help finance a special election on tax extensions and likely would funnel money instead into 2012 legislative races.
- "Union Chief Says Jerry Brown's Tax Vote Is 'Fraught With Peril'" (Yamamura, Sacramento Bee, 6/9).