Thanks for bringing this to our attention. However, with the total control achieved by the leftist coalition now governing this State, it is only a matter of time until the initiative and recall provisions are repealed-along with Proposition 13.
Perhaps a supermajority Constitutional state amendment, similar to that proposed at the federal level, is part of the answer. Also initiatives which "automatically" increase annual expenditures forever should be illegal. No state function is so important that it justifies bankrupting the state, or eliminating tha half-dozen or so legitimate expenses of State function. All major funding should have a built in maximum percentage of the total annual revenues above which it must never rise. That would include education and public employee salaries and benefits.
It is truly mind-boggling that the working taxpayer must treat the legislature as children, but experience has proven beyond any doubt that their fiscal and social IQ is truly at "child level." Time for the adult employers of this dysfunctional group to take back the reins of government.
The California initiative system came into being, and is being used because the controlling politicians in Sacramento are both Stupid and Corrupt. Take an examplr - the famous and infamous Prop 13. The original intent was to 'starve the beast' by limiting State revenues. Yje Sacramento politicians, instead of heading the voters, kept on spending more and more without regard, thus creating in part, the current fiscal crisis.
If the politicians had listened to thr intent of the voters, instead of trying to ignore it, the Proposition concept would have been vindicated. Similarly, if the Proposition had been more tightly worded and more encompassing, it would have been vindicated.
Where propositions fall down is where they mandate a fixed % of income be spent on (say) education without redard for the ebb and flow of the economy..