After Gender Gap was one of four winners in the Department of Labor contest, he applied again and pointed out that the Secretary of Labor didn't find the game offensive.
VICE News spoke with developers of two apps, both winners of a 2012 Department of Labor contest, that aim to help educate people about the gender disparity of average salaries.
Ronald Suraci at the United Public Service Employees Union, Coalition of Public Safety Division, which is representing the four officers, said all four have filed grievances with the state labor board contesting their dismissals.
Boeing said it would "vigorously contest" the labor board's complaint.
The Democrat Ami Bera has benefited from more than $3.8 million in steady outside spending since Labor Day, making this contest one of the most expensive in the nation.
Stone lines were the most popular practice executed during the contests, with labor accounting for 40%to70%0% of total labor days invested.
That will demoralize liberals and labor going into the presidential contest.
However, the California election pitted one union against another, causing many in the union movement to say it was a destructive, costly contest that undercut labor's power and image.
But given the board's concerns, as spelled out in a briefing paper, over an "unprecedented level of third-party activity" in the 2009 municipal elections, the new law is likely to curtail the influence of the city's powerful labor unions in virtually every contest from mayor to City Council.
In last year's L.A. mayoral contest, Wendy Greuel won labor's backing and more than $3 million in support from independent groups, much of it from a union representing Department of Water and Power workers.
The inner southern suburbs district of Unley was won in 2002 by outspoken Liberal Mark Brindal who failed to win preselection for the seat and moved to contest the marginal Labor seat of Adelaide, but was shrouded in a controversy concerning a sexual relationship that Brindal had with a mentally ill man, forcing him to withdraw.
