{"id":15546,"date":"2014-07-15T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-15T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T01:20:10","slug":"tim-draper-submits-six-californias-ballot-measure-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/15\/tim-draper-submits-six-californias-ballot-measure-signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Draper Submits Six Californias Ballot Measure Signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" align=right src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhcPcBxI-vI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Measure splitting the state looks set to appear on ballot<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I sort of thought this was some sort of joke that would never make it to the ballot. I was surprised when word filtered out that serious signature gathering was moving forward in the spring and summer. Apparently that has now borne fruit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tim Draper said he will file the signatures in Sacramento on Tuesday morning. State officials still need to review the petitions to ensure the initiative can qualify.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;California needs a reboot,&#8221; Draper&#8217;s campaign said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;With six Californias, we can refresh our government.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/political\/la-me-pc-six-california-initiative-20140714-story.html\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, he&#8217;s got the awkward technology lingo thing going on, but just because you can say &#8220;reboot&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean it is a good idea. An LAO report from earlier in the year <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/15392\/six-californias-make-far-less-sense-than-one\">showed a bunch of flaws<\/a> in the proposal including higher costs and greater inequalities. Yes, Silicon Valley would be a dynamic and wealthy state, but what about the rest of the state(s)? <\/p>\n<p>And then there is the whole question of this being entirely powerless until Congress acts. With the Senate divided, would either party want to roll the dice on 10 new Senators? <\/p>\n<p>In the end, Draper will spend his few millions on this, the state will pay to count these votes, and not much will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" align=right src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhcPcBxI-vI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Measure splitting the state looks set to appear on ballot<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll admit that I sort of thought this was some sort of joke that would never make it to the ballot. I was surprised when word filtered out that serious signature gathering was moving forward in the spring and summer. Apparently that has now borne fruit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tim Draper said he will file the signatures in Sacramento on Tuesday morning. State officials still need to review the petitions to ensure the initiative can qualify.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;California needs a reboot,&#8221; Draper&#8217;s campaign said in a statement on Monday. &#8220;With six Californias, we can refresh our government.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/political\/la-me-pc-six-california-initiative-20140714-story.html\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, he&#8217;s got the awkward technology lingo thing going on, but just because you can say &#8220;reboot&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean it is a good idea. An LAO report from earlier in the year <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/15392\/six-californias-make-far-less-sense-than-one\">showed a bunch of flaws<\/a> in the proposal including higher costs and greater inequalities. Yes, Silicon Valley would be a dynamic and wealthy state, but what about the rest of the state(s)? <\/p>\n<p>And then there is the whole question of this being entirely powerless until Congress acts. With the Senate divided, would either party want to roll the dice on 10 new Senators? <\/p>\n<p>In the end, Draper will spend his few millions on this, the state will pay to count these votes, and not much will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"tags":[11314,11315],"class_list":["post-15546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-11314","tag-11315"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-42K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}