Former Senator Hank Brown, a friend of my own election campaign, has been campaigning publicly for Amendment 49, a proposal that would end the government's role as bag man for unions and their recycling of public dollars into political campaigns. It wouldn't prevent anyone from giving to their union small donor committee, it would just make the unions responsible for their own collections and accounting.
In any event, Hank appeared on the Mike Rosen show to explain why this Amendment is such a good idea for Colorado's political process, and Ben DeGrow has uploaded the most salient clips and blogged about them:
Naturally, the left is having a fit. It's almost as though we were asking them to play by the same rules as everyone else, or something.