California’s Biggest Loser Is a Democrat

During their postelection podcast this week, NR’s editors offered their nominations for Tuesday’s biggest winners and losers. Their choices were national, of course, and not state actors. In that latter category, California’s Dave Regan — the boss behind the and a separate proposition that would punish community health clinics that refuse voluntarily to unionize their employees — is among the cycle’s biggest losers.

Here’s the backstory: The (the one that says governments can’t require employees to join a union) dealt a serious blow to California’s government unions, and the SEIU is still feeling it in the kishkes. Nearly 50 percent of SEIU Local 1000 members have dropped out since 2018, with a commensurate drop in inflation-adjusted dues collections. That’s what your Wall Street guys (and average citizens) might call a “financial crisis.”

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Will Swaim

Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.

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During their postelection podcast this week, NR’s editors offered their nominations for Tuesday’s biggest winners and losers. Their choices were national, of course, and not state actors. In that latter category, California’s Dave Regan — the boss behind the and a separate proposition that would punish community health clinics that refuse voluntarily to unionize their employees — is among the cycle’s biggest losers.

Here’s the backstory: The (the one that says governments can’t require employees to join a union) dealt a serious blow to California’s government unions, and the SEIU is still feeling it in the kishkes. Nearly 50 percent of SEIU Local 1000 members have dropped out since 2018, with a commensurate drop in inflation-adjusted dues collections. That’s what your Wall Street guys (and average citizens) might call a “financial crisis.”