Serious opponents to this in California should set to work on amending the California State Constitution. Since there’s little hope of getting 2/3 of the members of the California State Legislature’s houses to vote to do so it would have to be done by initiative. In California that currently requires 157,686 valid signatures (8% of the votes cast in the last Gubernatorial election) to get it on the ballot followed by a bare affirmative majority in the election. This didn’t happen in Massachusetts because it has no provision for amending the State Constitution independently of the legislature, a flaw when you compare it to other State and the Federal Constitutions. It would have to be submitted to the California Secretary of State 131 days prior to the November Election, which would be June 25th. I doubt there’s time to do that, unless some organization has been planning ahead.
“I doubt there’s time to do that, unless some organization has been planning ahead.”
I bet there is plenty of time. That is not that many signatures considering the issue.