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The Unforced Errors of California’s Populist Grassroots

February 21, 2022   2:21 amFebruary 20, 2022   7:55 pm
In sports, an unforced error is defined as “a mistake in play that is attributed to one’s own failure rather than to the skill or effort of one’s opponent.” Nothing better describes the fact that California’s school choice advocates managed...
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How to Squander the Grassroots

June 21, 2021   2:18 amJune 24, 2021   6:38 am
From the beginning, political insiders questioned the wisdom of supporting a Governor Newsom recall campaign. But when Orrin Heatlie was picking up the pieces after the first recall effort, he recognized something that eluded most experts: From scratch, with absolutely...
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How the People Can Fix California

May 31, 2021   2:08 amJune 2, 2021   11:10 am
The deadline to file citizens initiatives for the November 2022 state ballot is this August, and not nearly enough has been done so far. Active measures submitted to the California Attorney General include the highly necessary proposition to “prohibit slavery and involuntary...
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Government Unions, Tech Billionaires and California Ballot Propositions

December 16, 2020   2:12 amDecember 16, 2020   8:35 am
Californians voted on twelve state ballot propositions on November 3. On nine of these propositions, California’s government and private sector unions spent significant amounts of money, over a million in five cases, and over ten million in two cases. But of these...
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SCA 1 – ‘Yes’ means Yes, ‘No’ means No on Referenda

December 8, 2020   3:07 pmDecember 10, 2020   8:46 am
On December 7, the first day of the California Legislature’s 2021-22 Session, Senator Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), introduced Senate Constitutional Amendment 1, which would place this measure before the statewide voters in June 2022 to make changes to Article II...
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California’s Ballot Initiative Transparency Act

November 7, 2020   7:10 amNovember 9, 2020   11:22 am
In 2014, then Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg authored SB 1253, which was enacted in late September as Chapter 697. Section 1 of the bill established the act as the “Ballot Initiative Transparency Act.” Section 2 of the bill...
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Taxes at a Standstill: How the Coronavirus Can Halt Ballot Initiatives in the Coming Years

March 28, 2020   5:28 pm
As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to keep people home and put the economy into a lull, the combined health and economic factors have made everyone from state officials to local activists worried about voters passing new taxes, bonds, and propositions...
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