How Public Sector Unions Broke California

The Beholden State by Steven Malanga, City Journal Spring 2010
"The camera focuses on an official of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), California’s largest public-employee union, sitting in a legislative chamber and speaking into a microphone.
“We helped to get you into office, and we got a good memory,” she says matter-of-factly to the elected officials outside the shot.
“Come November, if you don’t back our program, we’ll get you out of office.’"