Comments on: Collective Bargaining Moves Forward http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/24/collective-bargaining-moves-forward/ Politics in Iowa from a progressive viewpoint. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: desmoinesdem http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/24/collective-bargaining-moves-forward/#comment-25189 desmoinesdem Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:09:27 +0000 http://iowaprogress.com/2008/04/24/collective-bargaining-moves-forward/#comment-25189 I hope he signs this bill. It sounds like a good idea. But I feel that the way the legislative leadership brought this up relatively late in the session, trying to slip in a 14-page amendment with almost no debate, was less than ideal. It made it look like they couldn't make a case for this bill in broad daylight and were trying to sneak it in when no one was paying attention The way this measure was introduced gave the Republicans a great excuse to whine to a corporate media that's never sympathetic to collective bargaining anyway. I never thought Culver was seriously thinking about vetoing this bill. I think he was trying to distance himself from the way legislators brought it up, and frankly, I can't blame him. I hope he signs this bill. It sounds like a good idea.

But I feel that the way the legislative leadership brought this up relatively late in the session, trying to slip in a 14-page amendment with almost no debate, was less than ideal. It made it look like they couldn’t make a case for this bill in broad daylight and were trying to sneak it in when no one was paying attention

The way this measure was introduced gave the Republicans a great excuse to whine to a corporate media that’s never sympathetic to collective bargaining anyway.

I never thought Culver was seriously thinking about vetoing this bill. I think he was trying to distance himself from the way legislators brought it up, and frankly, I can’t blame him.

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