The Northern Solano Democratic Club has posted A Resolution In Support of Assembly Member Mariko Yamada (AD-08) thanking her for her vote against the Blackmail Primary.  She was one of only seven Democrats in the Assembly and the State Senate to vote against this ill-conceived measure.  

Thanks also to Assembly Members Jones (AD-09), Ma (AD-12), Ammiano (AD-13), and Portantino (AD-44) along with State Senators Yee and Hancock who voted No on SCA 4.  And, for the record, Democratic Assembly Members Chesboro (AD-01), Skinner (AD-14), Blumenfield (AD-40), Brownley (AD-41), and Perez (AD-80) were either absent or did not vote.

The text of the resolution is below.

A Resolution in Support of Assembly Member Yamada

WHEREAS on the nineteenth of February, 2009, the California State Legislature approved State Senate Constitutional Amendment Four calling for adoption of a Louisiana-style “free-for-all primary”, which was coerced from the legislature under pressure to pass the State budget, and

WHEREAS State Senate Constitutional Amendment Four is another ill-conceived ballot measure that will permit manipulative and deceitful practices such as concealing party affiliation, the running of stalking horse candidates, and the gaming of results through organized crossover voting, thereby depriving voters of their true preferences, and

WHEREAS Assembly Member Yamada, by standing with only three four other Democrats [in the Assembly] to vote against State Senate Constitutional Amendment Four, stood up for cleaner, more honest elections,

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Northern Solano Democratic Club applauds the courageous action of Assembly Member Yamada in her opposition to State Senate Constitutional Amendment Four,

and

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Northern Solano Democratic Club exhorts all Californians, especially all elected officials, to follow her example and defeat the measure at the polls.