[Sosfbay-discuss] county polling update

[Jim Doyle]

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January 18, 2010
To: GPCA County Councils, Co-Coordinators, and Activists
From: County Polling Coordinators

Re: Early 2010 County Polling; Additional Ballot Measure for June 2010 
Election

As of January 12, 2010, the Secretary of State certified an additional
initiative for consideration of the voters on the June ballot. Green
Issues Working Group previously submitted the following statement
regarding the measure for the March 2010 Plenary Agenda Packet. Please
add the following measure to your County Polling considerations and reports.

Warner Bloomberg, County Polling Coordinator


       /_Public Utility Voting Threshold_/

PG&E's effort to make it more difficult for localities to create public
power utilities. A truly pernicious and anti-democratic proposal.

GIWG recommends the General Assembly adopt an "Against" position.

http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i812_initiative_09-0015.pdf