Posted by Congressman Doug LaMalfa at 12:00 am on Jun 28, 2010 Comments Off on November Propositions Numbered Today
California’s November ballot will be busy with 10 propositions
as Secretary of State Debra Bowen has recently certified and today
numbered each for the voters to ponder. 9 of them were placed
by citizen committees upon gathering the requisite signatures [and
spending pretty good dollars to get them in most cases]
The 10th is the $11 billion water bond placed on the ballot by
legislative action.
An interesting point is there are 2 more redistricting measures
on this upcoming ballot.One isto finish the job
started by Prop 11 and include Congressional seats in the process
that has turned drawing seats for Assembly, State Senate
andBoard ofEqualization over to an independent citizens
commission that is being formed right now for 2011.
[Congressional seats were left out in a strategy to increase the
odds of passing Prop 11 in Nov. ’08 as Pelosi and crew were sure to
dump mega dollars to stop it from drawing Federal House seats]
The other measure, cynically, is to remove and deny the citizens
commission [before it’s even been tried once] and turnit
right back over to legislators to drawdistrict
boundarieshow they see fit.… Read More