Taking on the public employee unions in California can draw massive resistance, as Shawn Nelson,a Fullerton city councilman found out when he ran for County Supervisor.Steve Greenhut writing in IDB: The county's two most powerful public employee unions, the Orange County Employees Association and the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, spent upward of $1 million in independent expenditures on behalf of their candidate, Anaheim Councilman Harry Sidhu, a go-along, get-along Republican who promised to drop a county lawsuit challenging a 2001 retroactive pension increase for deputies.Most of the union money went toward hit mailers against Shawn Nelson, a Fullerton councilman who played a key role in stopping an egregious pension hike in his city and the conservative choice for the seat.County supervisor races don't usually generate that level of spending. But the unions - with their nearly bottomless pit of cash from dues-paying members - dropped one mailer after another...(Read Full Post)