On May 24, the California Senate passed SB 660, which outlaws paying initiative petition circulators on a per-signature basis. The vote was 28-11. All Republicans voted against it, and two Democrats, Senators Anna Caballero and Steven Glazer, also voted against it. In the past these bills have passed with no opposition from any Democratic legislators.
The last three Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, and Gavin Newsom, have always vetoed these bills.
Ouch! Hopefully this bill does not get signed into law. If it does, it will make ballot access in California more difficult, and more expensive, and it is not easy, or cheap, now.
RED commie gerrymander monarchs at work.
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APPV
TOTSOP
ONE voter secret forms for ALL ballot access stuff
—- candidates, laws, const amdts, recalls.
Forms via all paper media – newspapers, mags, junk mail, etc.
How about outlawing paying for signatures period? If they don’t have enough volunteers maybe it shouldn’t be on the ballot. So what if it makes initiatives rare? That’s what we have a legislature for.
Sounds like a violation of the “impairment of contract” clause.
If we can outlaw paying for sex, we can outlaw paying for signatures.
WZ –
nonstop statist destruction of ALL contracts — for 6,000 plus years —
aka statist *police power* stuff.
In 1988 the US Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Colorado ban on paying petitioners. Grant v Meyer.
How many ISSUE petitions ON ballots in 1776-1789 in addition to State Consts ???
There were no issue petitions until a hundred years later.