Citizens in Charge

Public employee unions have dodged a bullet this election year. Proponents have stopped pushing a measure to prohibit unions from deducting political money from public employee wages. Supporters of the measure had trouble raising enough money to gather the 694,354 valid signatures they needed to qualify the constitutional amendment for the ballot, said Lew Uhler, president of the advocacy group the National Tax Limitation Committee, which worked with the initiative’s proponents.