It's interesting and quite disturbing to see businesses play the two groups off of each other. For example, this happened: > California cities and counties won

It's interesting and quite disturbing to see businesses play the two groups off of each other. For example, this happened: > California cities and counties won’t be allowed to tax soda for the next 12 years after Gov. Jerry Brown signed fast-moving legislation Thursday. > It comes after a deal was struck between legislators and business and labor interests who agreed to remove an initiative from the Nov. 6 statewide ballot that would have restricted cities and counties from raising any taxes without a supermajority vote of local citizens. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-soda-tax-ban-20180628-story.html https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-soda-tax-ban-2018... This has happened a few times. Organizations will get a measure on the ballot that threatens some other group (usually with political power), and then use it as leverage to extract concessions before withdrawing it.