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Article: Measures spell relief for state businesses.(After The Vote--A Changing Landscape)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 8, 2004
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RELIEF is probably the best way to sum up the reaction of California business owners to last week's election, as voters generally sided with their interests on just about every important measure.
Voters repealed employer-mandated health care, opted to fund stem cell research that could help jumpstart a new industry in the state, and agreed to curtail unfair business practice lawsuits.
A handful of propositions did not go the way business interests would have liked, including an effort to make the primary process less partisan. And Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's coattails were not long enough to make the Legislature more business friendly by ousting ...