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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">this is a tag</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see hiltachk and bell m h</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div class="body undoreset" tabindex="0" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11239" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; outline: none 0px; display: table; width: 1003px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 12px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="email-wrapped" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11238" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; display: table-cell; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div id="yiv6962975554" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11237" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The LWV also supports a yes vote on Prop. 51, which ostensibly sounds great. It provides $9 billion in bonds for education and schools. However, this proposition was authored by Thomas W. Hiltachk:</font></p><p style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><div class="yiv6962975554field-items" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11276" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><div class="yiv6962975554field-item yiv6962975554even" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11275" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/08/06/070806taco_talk_hertzberg#ixzz1wvtKDXOB" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: purple; outline: none; background: transparent;">The New Yorker</a> on Tom Hiltachk’s law firm, Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk:</font></p><blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11274" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 1em;"><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11273" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“They specialize in initiatives that are the opposite of what they sound like—the Fair Pay Workplace Flexibility Act of 2006, for example. It would have raised the state minimum wage slightly—by a lesser amount than it has since been raised—and, in the fine print, would have made it impossible ever to raise it again except by a two-thirds vote in both houses of the legislature, while, for good measure, eliminating overtime for millions of workers.”</font></p></blockquote></div></div><p style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;" /><div class="yiv6962975554moz-signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11236" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11272" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font color="#006600" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11271" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11270" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11269" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" />And from the Huffington Post:</font></span></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11235" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A full-time political and election lawyer since 1998, Hiltachk is an old hand at drafting legislation benefiting <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-simon/big-tobacco-shills-trying-to-stop-gmo-labeling-in-california_b_1773772.html" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: purple; outline: none; background: transparent;">big tobacco</a> or beating back living wage campaigns. He is also the California Republican Party’s go-to legal mind for penning regressive ballot initiatives intended to give conservatives maximum political power in an otherwise majority progressive state. Like the political consultants at the <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://fryingpannews.org/2012/09/27/the-dolphin-group-prop-32s-dark-messenger/" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: purple; outline: none; background: transparent;">Dolphin Group</a>, Hiltachk is known for promoting “Trojan Horse” political gambits. As Hendrik Hertzberg put it in a 2007 <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/08/06/070806taco_talk_hertzberg" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: purple; outline: none; background: transparent;"><em style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">New Yorker </em></a><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/08/06/070806taco_talk_hertzberg" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: purple; outline: none; background: transparent;">piece</a>, Hiltachk and his law film <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://www.bmhlaw.com/" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: purple; outline: none; background: transparent;">Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, </a>“specialize in initiatives that are the opposite of what they sound like.”</font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11260" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font color="#006600" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11263" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11262" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11261" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read Prop 51 carefully. There is a lot more to it that 9 billion for schools. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0005%20%28Education%20Bond%20Act%29.pdf?" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: purple; outline: none; background: transparent;"><b style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><font style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;">It is 8 pages long!</font></b></a> Hiltachk's authorship is enough to convince me that it is a Trojan horse.</font></span></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11260" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font color="#006600" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><font color="#000000" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">herb</font></span></font></p><p id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473264151811_11260" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px 0in; padding: 0px;"><font color="#006600" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><font color="#000000" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;" size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>