Bills in each house of the California legislature to ban paying circulators on any basis except hourly are both advancing. AB 1947 passed the Assembly Elections Committee on March 21. SB 1394 passed the Senate Elections Committee on April 3. Both bills apply to initiative, referendum, and recall petitions, but not to independent presidential candidate petitions nor petitions to create a new party.
Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a virtually identical bill in 2011.
The Senate Committee analysis has an excellent list of cases in which similar laws have been struck down. See it here. Click on the link.
The statement by the sponsor Josh Newman, claims that it is a tactic to use “well trained, professional signature gatherers” Apparently, Newman would prefer poorly trained, unprofessional signature gatherers.
Crooked Old Man Brown is on his way out. He signed the bills that delay Newman’s recall election.
STOP the ANTI-Democracy gerrymander OLIGARCHS
— as E-V-I-L ROTTEN as the Russia, China, etc. OLIGARCHS
— or the 1776 Brit OLIGARCHS.
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PR and AppV
Apparently, Newman would prefer poorly trained, unprofessional signature gatherers
— so that the petitions can be declared illegal
— to keep POWER in the gerrymander oligarchs in the gerrymander CA legislature.
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Initiative, referendum, and recall petitions in ALL States —
even with PR and AppV.