SF pension reform donors tied to antiunion efforts

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi is billing his pension reform measure on the Nov. 8 ballot as a progressive effort to protect city services for children, seniors and the poor - and has bristled at the notion it's an attack on unions.

But the two main contributors to Proposition D - venture capitalist Michael Moritz and businessman George Hume, who have donated $250,000 apiece - have also contributed to Republicans in Ohio and Wisconsin who supported those states' polarizing, national-headline-grabbing efforts this year to curb unions' rights dramatically.

"Adachi is the front man, but Hume and Moritz are the antiunion billionaires behind the curtain," said Nathan Ballard, strategist for the Yes on C campaign to pass a separate pension reform ballot measure backed by Mayor Ed Lee, the Board of Supervisors and labor unions.

"Whether he knows it or not, Adachi's being used by the very same billionaires who have mounted a campaign against unions all around the country," Ballard said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/03/MN6P1LAOD3.DTL&ao=all

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1. What are the chances Adachi doesn't know? 0. Nt

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4. is he being used or being PAYED by FASCISTS.!!

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2. Watch out for the word "reform" these days.

That word may not mean what you assume it means.

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3. "...the very same billionaires who have mounted a campaign against unions all around the country,"

So subtle, aren't they?

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5. wow its more surprising the chron published this story than

the allegation that a politician like Adachi is in bed with slime buckets like his cohorts.

Most Chron political writers have been writing anti-union and anti pension propaganda for years, I think its a contractual requirement over there.

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6. The front lines of class warfare, big money wants to crush all Unions