Not content controlling every statewide elected office
and both chambers of the legislature, California Democrats are now moving to
cut off conservatives from the ballot as well.
The Washington Post's Reid Wilson reports
on a bill passed by the Assembly and Senate that Gov. Jerry Brown may sign this
week:
"The measure, Assembly Bill 857, would require 10
percent of signatures for any given ballot initiative to be collected by
volunteers, rather than by paid signature gatherers. The number of signatures
supporters need to turn in is based on the number of votes in the last
gubernatorial election; that means groups would have to rely on volunteers to
gather a little more than 50,000 of the 504,760 valid signatures required to
get an initiative on the ballot."
For a state constantly plagued by sometimes conflicting
ballot measures, AB 857 may sound good at first. Everyone will have a tougher
time getting on the ballot. But of course, Democrats added a loophole for their
allies:......To Read More.....
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