Regarding 1403 and 1404, I would encourage the proponents to put a positive spin on this make it attractive to the union employees. Call initiative 1403 the union member dues protection act. Call, 1404 something like the Public Employees right to free political choice act. Explain that under the current system, public employees give away their right to a different policial choice they might have different from their union leadership. There are any number of examples, but union employees do not always have a free choice, if they want to excercise their choice over the union’s choice they have to dig deep into their own pockets, when the union has taken that money and spoken on the employees’ behalf. This is not the way things should be done in a free society. The employees should have the choice to use the money taken from their paycheck by the union, to direct it to policies or candidates of their choice, not that of the union leadership or the union should not take their money period.

Bottom line, as conservatives we get too caught up in what we want to change and forget we need to make things appealing to the electorate. We name to brand initiatives and programs for what they are, efforts to allow citizens to control their own destiny and not have that power hijacked by organizations purporting to be on their side, when in fact they only seek to impose their will upon all of us.