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Article: Measures spell relief for California businesses.
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 15, 2004
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Relief is probably the best way to sum up the reaction of California business owners to the Nov. 2 elections, 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Voters repealed employer-mandated health care, opted to fund stem cell research that could help jumpstart a new industry in the state, and agreed to curtail unfair business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 ...