We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

[But he pledged to bring the issue to a vote.] I don't know that we'll have the votes on the day we get back, no, ... But I think we'll have the votes next week as the chairmen work with their members.

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.