Posts Tagged ‘ballot initiative’

THEM THAT’S GOT SHALL GET?

November 18, 2007

Do voters love landlords?
Coming this spring to a voting booth near you: a ballot initiative that would kill rent control in California. It’s basically a retread of the anti-eminent domain initiative that voters rejected last year, but this time it would also nullify rent-control ordinances.
Apparently backers of the initiative feel last year’s effort failed because [...]

THE UNDEAD INITIATIVE

October 23, 2007

Zombie assault on the Electoral College
Halloween is hard upon us, so perhaps it’s only fitting that something once believed dead is reported to have risen from the grave.  Unfortunately, the zombie in question is nothing so fragrant as a rotting corpse– it’s the ballot initiative to split California’s electoral college votes.

 

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