Posted on 10/23/2007 8:00:04 AM PDT by SmithL
BUMP! I totally agree.
I don’t think they ever got a website up and running as they were only in the early stages of gathering signatures before the just-established group, Californians for Equal Representation, was outed as being financially backed by Giuliani’s treasurer trying to hide his funding. The text of the initiative is available here:
http://ag.ca.gov/cms_pdfs/initiatives/2007-07-17_07-0032_Initiative.pdf
The Mobocratic "recall and referendum" BS is one of the key reasons that CA is a laughingstock. Rule by the Sheeple indeed.
Our system: We choose electors. They choose the winner. Any deviation and we are no longer a democratic republic.
Democracy, especially direct democracy, is the most abusive and shortest lived of all forms of governance.
I agree. There’s another point I’ve made on the forum with regard to this idea.
In general elections the vote results in most counties don’t change. We win or lose an additional three to five counties each election. It it’s districts, I appologize for not using the proper terminology.
Under the new plan there are 55 electoral votes that would be split up by these counties/districts each election. With the small fluctuation in area won or lost each time, the variance in win/lose electoral votes would probably range somewhere around 6 to 12 each election cycle.
Who in their right mind would come to California to spend the millions of bucks it would take to win 6 to 12 electoral votes?
IMO, we would never see another presidential politician campaign in the state again. They could go to a much smaller state and get all their electoral votes, easily gaining more than they would in California.
What we’d effectively do is disenfranchise California. It’s needs and views would never again matter.
The politicans would come here to raise money, then fly the coop never to return.
Seems like a lousey idea to me.
Jul 17, 2007 Initiative filed with SOS/AG Feb 4, 2008 Deadline for signatures to be submitted to SOS (goes on June ballot, if successful) Feb 5, 2008 Election - Presidential primary Jun 3, 2008 Election - non-presidential primary and Electoral Vote initiative Nov 7, 2008 Election - Using new electoral method.
I agree. I will admit that I wouldn’t like it even if it were to have been pushed through a couple of years before the general election though.
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