California failed to win earlier state competitions in part because many unions declined to support the effort. (articles.latimes.com)
Democrats have proudly touted their approach, in classic technocratic fashion, as independant of any craven politicization but they've clearly avoided important reforms like malpratice insurance and cross state competition for insurance companies out of deference to trial lawyer lobby groups. (firstthings.com)
While the band has won state competitions before, -LSB-...] (eagleeye.news)