These are th eUnions and organizations that need to have their pensions bailed out by the Americn taxpayers. After reading these numbers I think that the Progressives fund the Union to be funded by the unions. AND we find the ever present Mr. Soros.

Ballot Initiative Strategy CenterFrom Ballotpedia

1 How BISC is funded
1.1 Funding
1.2 Big Labor supports BISC
1.3 Signature collection companies
1.4 Charges of hypocrisy
2 BISC and petition blocking
3 BISC donations to ballot measures
3.1 2006: Idaho, Ohio, Washington
3.2 2005: Legislative re-districting in Ohio
3.3 2000: California law enforcement
4 BISC attacks on conservative ballot initiatives
4.1 Ward Connerly
4.2 BISC launches ad campaign targeting Connerly
5 External links
6 References

The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, or BISC, based in Washington, DC, advocates for progressive ballot measures and against conservative ballot measures. There are two BISC organizations, the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Inc., a 501(c)(4) and the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation, a 501(c)(3).

How BISC is funded

It is the general practice of BISC to not disclose its donors. According to their 2007 Form 990, the revenue of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, Inc. was $923,606.[1] while revenue for the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Foundation was $203,169[2] For 2008, the expected budget for BISC was $3 million.[3] In past years, it has received significant support from billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Institute, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) totaling $510,073 since the foundation's creation in 1999.[4]

National Public Radio (NPR) published an August 2008 profile in its series, The Secret Money Project: The Organizations, that discloses that BISC is part of an umbrella coalition called "America Votes".[5]

Funding
Disclosure forms of some granting organizations show the following grants:

Year Donor Grant
2006 SEIU $25,000
2005 AFL-CIO $25,000
2005 NARAL $10,507
2005 Open Society Institute $153,007[6]
2005 National Education Association $75,000
2005 SEIU $25,000
2004 NARAL $17,165
2004 OSI $154,665[7]

The 2002 and 2003 tax returns of the BISC Foundation do not provide any donor information.[8],[9]

BISC, Inc. elected not to disclose its donors on its federal income tax returns in 2005 and 2004.[10]

The New Progressive Coalition announced in 2007 that it had designated BISC as a member of its "Victory in 2008 and Beyond" progressive "mutual fund".[11] BISC is also listed as "a partner" of the liberal organization, "America Votes", which describes BISC as enabling "a wide range of ideologically progressive groups" to "use the [initiative] process more effectively".[12]

Big Labor supports BISC
In an April 2008 publication, "The Ballot Initiative Strategy Center: How It Promotes Big Labor's Political Strategy", the Capital Research Center disclosed that BISC has taken donations from the AFL-CIO, the International Association of Machinists, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Assocation, the United Food and Commercial Workers, SEIU and AFSCME.[13]
The Capital Research Center also writes that BISC has taken funds from what it describes as the "far-left Arca Foundation".

Signature collection companies
BISC is a frequent critic of petition drive management companies that circulate initiatives that are disliked by BISC's supporters. It refers to Mike Arno's company along with National Voter Outreach as "fraudsters" and refuses to support any initiative affiliated with the companies.[14]

Consultants endorsed by BISC include Progressive Campaigns, Inc., Fieldworks[15] and ACORN.[16]

Charges of hypocrisy
According to Joe Mathews, a former Los Angeles Times reporter and a leading ballot pundit at Blockbuster Democracy, when labor-backed Washington I-1029 ran into legal trouble in July 2008, "In cases when mistakes have been made by backers of initiatives with whom labor disagrees, SEIU and other unions have screamed to the high heavens about fraud. If a chamber of commerce had made a mistake like SEIU's on, say, a "right to work" measure, the union would be accusing the chamber of all sorts of things. And the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center -- the labor-backed, self-styled police of the initiative process -- would be calling for indictments. The BISC has been not-so-curiously silent about this SEIU screw-up."[17]

BISC and petition blocking
Reporter Lisa Baker writes that at an AFL-CIO meeting in Oregon in 2001[18]:

At the event, BISC presenter Kelly Evans encouraged unions to run “signature blockingâ€