This left-leaning, pro-union bias explains the party's silence on liberalisation and deregulation of medical and other services that would boost productivity and help create the demand and jobs that Japan badly needs.
Mr.Brown resigned earlier this week after a coalition was formed between the center-right Conservatives and the left-leaning Liberal Democrats.
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The race is between Councilman Greg Nickels and city attorney Mark Sidran, both Democrats, though Sidran has been blasted in some quarters as leaning too far to the right for many in this left-leaning city.
This left-leaning, pro-union bias explains the party's silence on liberalisation and deregulation of medical and other services that would boost productivity and help create the demand and jobs that Japan badly needs.
This gathering of left-leaning, activist-sympathetic lawyers is an odd place for a Forbes journalist to show up, but they wanted a full range of views for the panel on securities litigation.