Lewis Uhler: ICON of the RIGHT

The Sacramento Bee has He’s an old hand from right field, His new cause: Helping governor pass Prop. 75.

He is an unapologetic McCarthyite and a former member of the John Birch Society whose hard-right ideology has taken him to the fringes of American conservatism.

But Lewis K. Uhler also has remained very much planted in mainstream Republican orthodoxy over the past half-century, landing key positions in the gubernatorial administration of Ronald Reagan, co-writing the state’s term limits initiative and staying at the national forefront of the movement to lower taxes and balance the federal budget.

Now, the 71-year-old Uhler is working as the front man – at the urging of a close contact to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – for Proposition 75, the ballot initiative aimed at reducing the influence of the state’s public employee unions.

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Uhler is at the forefront of the November California Special Election.

Proposition 75, the Paycheck Protection Initiative will drive the Unions and the Left wild.

Bring it ON!

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Cross-posted to the Bear Flag League Special Election Page