{"id":8926,"date":"2009-05-20T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-20T19:54:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T19:54:06","slug":"bay-area-council-pushes-for-constitutional-convention-launches-repaircaliforniaorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/20\/bay-area-council-pushes-for-constitutional-convention-launches-repaircaliforniaorg\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Council Pushes for Constitutional Convention, Launches RepairCalifornia.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bay Area Council has been pushing for a Constitutional Convention for a while now. In the wake of the disaster that was yesterday, they are launching a new website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.repaircalifornia.org\/\">RepairCalifornia.org<\/a>, combined with a series of events across the state to encourage the Legislature to put measures on the ballot for a constitutional convention. The group, which is a collection of mostly tech companies from the bay area, also says if the Legislature doesn&#8217;t put them on the ballot, they&#8217;ll do it through signatures.<\/p>\n<p>The events begin in Sacramento this morning, and will continue throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update by Robert:<\/b> I am currently in Sacramento to participate in an 11:30 press conference BAC has put together. I&#8217;m representing the Courage Campaign, which has supported the Constitutional Convention concept since our members expressed overwhelming support for it back in September. It seems increasingly obvious that a Constitutional Convention is necessary to save this state. It&#8217;s time we moved beyond &#8220;if&#8221; to &#8220;how&#8221; and &#8220;when.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bay Area Council has been pushing for a Constitutional Convention for a while now. In the wake of the disaster that was yesterday, they are launching a new website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.repaircalifornia.org\/\">RepairCalifornia.org<\/a>, combined with a series of events across the state to encourage the Legislature to put measures on the ballot for a constitutional convention. The group, which is a collection of mostly tech companies from the bay area, also says if the Legislature doesn&#8217;t put them on the ballot, they&#8217;ll do it through signatures.<\/p>\n<p>The events begin in Sacramento this morning, and will continue throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update by Robert:<\/b> I am currently in Sacramento to participate in an 11:30 press conference BAC has put together. I&#8217;m representing the Courage Campaign, which has supported the Constitutional Convention concept since our members expressed overwhelming support for it back in September. It seems increasingly obvious that a Constitutional Convention is necessary to save this state. It&#8217;s time we moved beyond &#8220;if&#8221; to &#8220;how&#8221; and &#8220;when.&#8221;<\/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":[6568,6093],"class_list":["post-8926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-6568","tag-6093"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2jY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926","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=8926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}