{"id":53180,"date":"2018-07-18T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/?post_type=blog&p=53180"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:23:58","slug":"three-californias-proposition-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/elections\/2018\/07\/three-californias-proposition-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"“Three Californias” proposition kicked off the November ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\n\t\t
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The California Supreme Court ruled that a proposal to divide the state in three cannot be placed on the November ballot.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n

This afternoon, the California Supreme Court ruled that a proposal to divide the state in three cannot be placed on the November ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the \u201cThree Californias\u201d<\/a> initiative gathered over 450,000 verified signatures, initially qualifying as \u201cProposition 9,\u201d<\/a> its place on the ballot was contested by the Planning and Conservation League, a nonprofit environmental organization. The group argued that trisecting the state would substantially \u201crevise\u201d the California Constitution, rather than simply \u201camend\u201d it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voters can only amend the constitution via ballot propositions. Revisions\u2014sweeping changes to the structure or function of government\u2014require two-thirds approval of both the state Assembly and Senate before being placed on the ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Court did not take a side in that debate but agreed to take the proposition off of this year\u2019s ballot while the question is resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause significant questions have been raised regarding the proposition\u2019s validity, and because we conclude that the potential harm in permitting the measure to remain on the ballot outweighs the potential harm in delaying the proposition to a future election\u2026(the Secretary of State) is directed to refrain from placing Proposition 9 on the November 6, 2018, ballot,\u201d the court wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision throws another wrench into Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper\u2019s latest effort to chop up the Golden State into more manageable sized pieces. Draper also funded a \u201cSix Californias\u201d initiative for the 2014 ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cApparently, the insiders are in cahoots and the establishment doesn\u2019t want to find out how many people don\u2019t like the way California is being governed,\u201d Draper said in an email. \u201cWhether you agree or not with this initiative, this is not the way democracies are supposed to work. This kind of corruption is what happens in third world countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Draper has argued that California has grown too large and economically diverse to be effectively governed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe citizens of the whole state would be better served by three smaller state governments,\u201d read the text of the most recent measure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProposition 9 was a costly, flawed scheme that will waste billions of California taxpayer dollars, create chaos in public services including safeguarding our environment and literally eliminate the State of California \u2013 all to satisfy the whims of one billionaire,\u201d Planning and Conservation League\u2019s executive director Howard Penn said in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court gave Draper 30 days to make his case for why the Three Californias proposal is a constitutional use of the initiative process. But even if he persuades the court, the earliest it could appear on regular statewide ballot is 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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