[EL] Proposed Initiative Enters Circulation

[Thomas J. Cares]

I wouldn't mind requiring secret ballot re-votes on bills that come within
3 votes of passing/failing in the senate and 6 in the assembly. A purpose I
see would be to mitigate the triumph of partisan whipping over objective
merits. I think back to those budget days, in 06, 07, 08, 09, 10 when
Republicans wouldn't vote for the (any) budget just to not become pariahs
in their party.

On Thursday, January 28, 2016, Larry Levine <larrylevine at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Could this qualify as the stupidest initiative ever proposed? The only
> purposed I could imagine would be so legislators could vote against
> contributors and never have it known. But I guess someone thinks this is
> “reform” worth achieving. And the proponent probably believes in
> “transparency.”
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> Larry
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> *AP16:020*
>  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 27, 2016CONTACT: Sam Mahood(916) 653-6575
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> Proposed Initiative Enters Circulation
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> *Legislature. Secret Ballots. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.*
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> *SACRAMENTO* – Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced the proponent of
> a new initiative was cleared to begin collecting petition signatures
> today.
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> The Attorney General prepares the legal title and summary that is required
> to appear on initiative petitions. When the official language is complete,
> the Attorney General forwards it to the proponent and to the Secretary of
> State, and the initiative may be circulated for signatures. The Secretary
> of State then provides calendar deadlines to the proponent and to county
> elections officials. The Attorney General’s official title and summary for
> the measure is as follows:
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> *LEGISLATURE. SECRET BALLOTS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. *Requires
> members of State Legislature to vote by secret ballot in all legislative
> decision-making. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of
> Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: *Potential
> increase in state legislative costs, which would be funded within the
> existing constitutional budget limit for the Legislature. *(15-0112.)
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> The Secretary of State’s tracking number for this measure is 1771 and the
> Attorney General’s tracking number is 15-0112.
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> The proponent of the measure, Subhendu Das, must collect the signatures of
> 585,407 registered voters (eight percent of the total votes cast for
> Governor in the November 2014 general election) in order to qualify it for
> the November 2016 ballot. The proponent has 180 days to circulate petitions
> for the measure, meaning the signatures must be submitted to county
> elections officials by July 25, 2016.  The proponent can be reached at
> subhendu.has at excite.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','subhendu.has at excite.com');>.
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