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<br><br>Excellent question! To get the bill out on the assembly floor today we had to first get through<br>the Elections Committee and the Appropriations Committee. The chair of the Appropriations<br>Committee, Felipe Fuentes (San Fernando), seemed very reluctant to support the bill. His<br>concern reportedly was that putting the initiative on the ballot would require printing an <br>extra page in the voter's handbook (IIRC the cost would have been $250,000). <br> <br>My understanding (and I could be wrong) was that the bill provided that if we got the 2/3<br>of the assembly, then the bill would go to the Governor for signature this year, but if we got<br>only 51% then the issue would be placed on the ballot in 2014. I believe the Appropriations<br>Committee altered the bill to remove the simple-majority-and-ballot-initiative option before<br>they voted (strictly along party lines) to put the bill on the floor.<br><br>Also, I was wrong about re-introducing the bill next year. The heroic Nancy Neff informs me<br>that we'll re-introduce it this year. (Shucks, I thought I might actually find some time to work <br>on my novel sometime this year.)<br><br>Brian <br><br><br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:14:01 -0800<br>From: spencer.graves@prodsyse.com<br>To: snug.bug@hotmail.com<br>CC: sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] CA DISCLOSE Act 2 Votes Shy<br><br>
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Hi, Brian: <br>
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Why did this need a 2/3 majority? <br>
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Thanks, <br>
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On 1/31/2012 12:30 PM, Brian Good wrote:
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We needed a 2/3 majority--every Democrat and 2 Republicans.<br>
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We got every Democrat except Cathleen Galgiani (Stockton),
and we only got one<br>
Republican, Nathan Fletcher (San Diego). <br>
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So even though we failed to win the vote, we showed that the
Republican Party<br>
is willing to vote down legislation that 80% of voters (and over
75% of Republicans)<br>
favor. <br>
<br>
Wait'll next year. We'll introduce it again, and this time
we'll win.<br>
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I'm finding working at the CA State level very stimulating.
Most people don't even<br>
know who their state legislators are, and a couple of dozen
calls from constituents lights <br>
a fire under their assembly reps. By phonebanking, people from
all over the state can <br>
converge electronically to rouse the supporters in targeted
assembly districts. And there<br>
is a very clear difference between Republicans and Democrats at
the state level.<br>
<br>
I understand that Ms. Galgiani is termed out after this year,
so her assembly seat will be <br>
opening up, and she plans to run for state senate.<br>
<br>
I will be very interested to look into who finances Ms.
Galgiani, and there's an excellent<br>
research resource, maplight, that has a lot of information on CA
state legislators and their<br>
campaign contributors.<br>
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