On June 22, the California Assembly Elections Committee passed SB 1203, to require petitioners to wear badges that say they are being paid (if, indeed, they are being paid). The bill also requires that the badge identify the county in which the circulator is registered. If the circulator is not registered, the badge must say that as well. Everything on the badge must be in 30-point font.
The bill passed on a party line vote, with all Democrats voting “yes” and all Republicans voting “no.” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is listed in the bill’s analysis as an opponent of the bill, so it is virtually certain that he will veto it if it reaches his desk.
Who is going to attack in court the EVIL gerrymander minority rule oligarchs in the CA regime — who are now just as EVIL rotten as the old time nobility classes in Europe in the 1700s ???
1. Unequal votes for each oligarch.
2. Unequal votes in each oligarch gerrymander district.
3. About 25 percent ANTI-Democracy minority rule — half the votes in half the gerrymander districts for the party hacks of one gerrymander oligarch gang to control.
OR — will there have to be 1775 U.S.A / 1789 France events ???
Any 100 point font badges of DIS-honor for such party hack incumbents ???
PARTY HACK – CA ASSembly.
P.R. and App.V. NOW.
A law like this was passed in Colorado years ago and it was thrown ruled to have been unconstitutional in court and thrown out.
How about mandatory badges for everyone who collects a check from the government, just so we all know who they are? Specifically right now I’m thinking of the Government Nurses Union and Teachers Unions in California who have a habit of shouting down politicians at events. They are all engaging in political activity, shouldn’t they be required to wear a badge that tells us all who is paying them while they engage in political activity?
How about mandatory badges for the people in Illinois in the coming weeks who will be working on petition challenges, whether they are getting paid and if they are a government employee? Former Illinois Governor George Ryan, currently in prison, used 73 state employees including 19 on the taxpayers clock to work on an Illinois petition challenge, so why not badges for them?
I need to learn more about CA government and these committee hearings so I can go tell these idiots just what they are supporting like I used to do in IL.
This is control freak legislation. By and for control freaks that won’t do a hint of good for anyone.
The California State Senate Elections Committee has a hearing on June 29, a Tuesday.
I don’t understand the need for such a law. If the law only required that circulators be identified as such, maybe it would be ok. But, how does it affect the gathering of petition signatures whether the collector is paid or the county he/she lives on?
Last year, when I was gathering signatures for the now virtually defunct Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party we had badges identifying us as “ad hoc notaries,” with the party symbol on it. But the badges were not mandatory, they were made because we wanted to have them.