Resignations follow California Chamber of Commerce's endorsement

[cal04]

Resignations follow California Chamber of Commerce's endorsement of Whitman
UC President Mark Yudof and the chancellor of the state community college system quit their positions on the board of directors, saying they will not participate in a partisan operation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-whitman-chamber-20100905,0,7697644.story

The president of the University of California and the chancellor of the California community college system have quit the California Chamber of Commerce board of directors after the group voted to endorse Republican Meg Whitman for governor.

The endorsement is the latest example of the state's largest business organization increasing its political profile.

Jack Scott, a former Democratic state senator from Pasadena who was appointed as community college chancellor by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, announced his resignation Friday in a letter to chamber President Allan Zaremberg after the endorsement vote.

"I do not believe the board is using sound judgment by catapulting the California Chamber of Commerce into the center of a fierce political contest," Scott wrote. "…It is destructive to the chamber's core mission and the businesses it represents when it becomes a partisan operation."

[annabanana]

1. The C of C should be unmasked at every available opportunity.

They have not been an honest broker for business for DECADES.

[Recursion]

2. C of C's should be kept local

Local chambers of commerce I usually like; they actually do helpful and productive things. Nationally they just cause trouble.

[eridani]

3. Many local C of Cs have specifically disavowed the national organization n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Ha! Sounds like the Chamber learned from Ala. Business Council.

Which decides who the candidates are ( usually Republican).
Each county has a Business council,making up the State group.
Chambers of Commerce heavily represented.



check this out: from the ABC ( Ala business Council website)

The nearly 5,000 companies that belong to the Business Council of Alabama employ more than 750,000 Alabamians. If you multiply that by the number of family members and friends each has, BCA member organizations have the ability to completely change the face of Alabama government and put our state's economy on the path to greatness once and for all.

The Business Council of Alabama's ProgressPAC consistently makes a real impact on the outcome of Alabama elections.
In the judicial elections of 2000, every candidate endorsed by BCA and ProgressPAC was elected to office. The result was a sweeping change in the makeup of the Alabama Supreme Court and the election of a majority of conservative justices committed to fairness and upholding the rule of law .
In addition to great legislative victories in 2002, ProgressPAC's first-time endorsement in the governor's race had history-making impact with the election of Governor Bob Riley.
And in 2004 the election of two more fair-minded conservative jurists to the Alabama Supreme Court further strengthened a high court that for far too long had been rife with judicial activism

These leaders elected in recent years, who share your vision for fairness, a strong business climate and a thriving free enterprise system in Alabama, are now working for you and all the people of our state with a progressive vision for Alabama's economic future.

Back in the old days, it would have been called the White Man's Council.

[HughMoran]

5. The Chamber is a right-wing extention of Faux News and must be destroyed

[SpiralHawk]

6. You got it. The C of C has Republicon Family Pharisee Values

and has mutated to become a danger to American enterprise and American honor.

[Historic NY]

7. Its just a Republican Echo Chamber.