Commentary
For 36 years, all but three as a private-sector journalist, I’ve been fighting for the democratic rights of Californians against the powerful, non-democratic public-employee unions. It’s been wearying. There have been few victories.
It was especially painful when I was state Sen. John Moorlach’s press secretary, 2017-20, and saw the unions attack him with vicious lie after vicious lie in his 2020 re-election campaign, outspending him three-to-one and defeating him. All he wanted to do was put their pensions on a sound financial footing.
Then the unions did it again when he ran for county supervisor in 2021. And in 2022, when he ran for mayor of Costa Mesa….