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In recent days, two ads were released in Florida attacking Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital. One was produced by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a left-wing public-worker union that has pledged to spend upward of $100 million to reelect Barack Obama. The other was...
By putting off a decision on the court ruling in AFSCME v. AIG, the SEC has left corporations in the dark and handed an advanteage to shareholder activists.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is currently the target of a recall effort spearheaded by national public employee unions. If his opponents get enough signatures by Jan. 17, Wisconsin will hold a gubernatorial election this summer. The outcome is crucial to the future of the country.
The largest single political contributor in the 2010 campaign cycle is a public employee union, which exemplifies the generous campaign spending from public employee unions, especially to campaigns for federal office.
Public sector unions are not the same thing as private sector unions, and should not be able to collectively bargain.
Acontroversial 2003 Securities and Exchange Commission rule, intended to make it easier for shareholders to nominate and elect members of corporate boards, is back on the table.
The Committee believes there would be considerable potential benefit for the economy if shareholders were able more easily to elect directors who are committed to better corporate performance, but not if the result would merely be to facilitate the use of the election process by small groups of shareholders more interested in their personal causes than in the performance of the firm.
The Securities and Exchange Commission should weigh a compromise proposal on proxy access and how to pay for it.





