Sometimes democracy gets messy and when it does, controlling only one state party can leave too much to chance. So SEIU is hoping to solidify its control over California state government by gaming the state’s new “top two” primary system with the hope of owning both sides of the aisle in Sacramento. As we reported in the May 20 issue of INK, David Keiffer, the new diabolic ideas man for SEIU in California, has been threatening to apply purple heat to California Republicans who dare to follow the will of their constituents and not SEIU. Keiffer has now cooked up a stunning subversion of the political process based on the state’s new “top two” primary system that allows two GOP candidates to run head to head in the general election. SEIU has formed a “political action committee” to “discourage” Democrats from seeking office in key Republican districts while it “encourages” Dem voters to change parties just long enough to put (SEIU beholdin’) RINOs in office. SEIU has declined to put a dollar amount on the effort, saying only “we are going to spend as much money as we have to spend to be effective.” Also in Cali, SEIU is pushing AB 438, a bill that would effectively outlaw the privatization of library services in any way that might actually save local taxpayers money. The few California communities that have tried library outsourcing have seen only positive results, not only in cost savings, but also in expanded library hours, programs, and services. Privatization has resulted in new library construction, cutting edge automation, cost saving on-line services and millions in private donations raised for new library programs. 
And yet according to the SEIU website Privatization is a Beast a town’s library going private is akin to it being attacked by Godzilla, or a Godzilla-esque toothsome corndog-like cardboard-eating puppet. SEIU warns that privatization only serves to allow the taint of devil money and the stench of capitalism to “leech” into sacred greed-free public library spaces where ideas and books and union librarians now frolic together without fear of commoditization. Of course, going private could cost SEIU a big fat bundle of forced librarian dues dollars needed presumably, in no small part, to fund the creation of future Corndog Beasts.
