{"id":10149,"date":"2009-09-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-25T02:34:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T02:34:34","slug":"george-lakoff-submits-majority-vote-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/25\/george-lakoff-submits-majority-vote-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lakoff Submits Majority Vote Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"

With tomorrow being the recommended deadline for submitting initiatives for the November 2010 ballot, we’re starting to see people file their proposals. One of those is George Lakoff’s initiative<\/a> to restore majority rule on both the budget and revenues. His initiative is quite simple, reading in essence:<\/p>\n

All legislative actions on revenue and budget must be determined by a majority vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this initiative doesn’t address the requirement for voters to approve taxes by a 2\/3rds rule, nor does it seem to deal with the Prop 218 requirements for local governments to submit tax increases to those voters. But this would almost totally eliminate the conservative veto in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear whether there will be the resources to get this on the ballot. But you can learn more about this in LA tonight at 7PM at a meeting Lakoff and grassroots activists are holding at the SEIU 721 offices at 500 S. Virgil<\/a> just west of downtown LA.<\/p>\n

We still expect to see other initiatives dealing with the 2\/3rds rule to be filed in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With tomorrow being the recommended deadline for submitting initiatives for the November 2010 ballot, we’re starting to see people file their proposals. One of those is George Lakoff’s initiative<\/a> to restore majority rule on both the budget and revenues. His initiative is quite simple, reading in essence:<\/p>\n

All legislative actions on revenue and budget must be determined by a majority vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this initiative doesn’t address the requirement for voters to approve taxes by a 2\/3rds rule, nor does it seem to deal with the Prop 218 requirements for local governments to submit tax increases to those voters. But this would almost totally eliminate the conservative veto in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear whether there will be the resources to get this on the ballot. But you can learn more about this in LA tonight at 7PM at a meeting Lakoff and grassroots activists are holding at the SEIU 721 offices at 500 S. Virgil<\/a> just west of downtown LA.<\/p>\n

We still expect to see other initiatives dealing with the 2\/3rds rule to be filed in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2DH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}