Posted on 08/14/2008 3:46:44 PM PDT by SmithL
California legislators have approved legislation to circumvent the Electoral College.
But the measure could face a veto from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The bill by Senator Carole Migden, a San Francisco Democrat, would ratify an interstate agreement in which states award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
That would avoid a repeat of the 2000 election, when George Bush won the presidency but not the popular vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I would rather see the electors actually electing the President as the Founding Fathers intended, instead of the current “beauty contest”.
Arnie’s 2006 veto message:
http://gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/ab_2948_veto.pdf
To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I am returning Assembly Bill 2948 without my signature.
I believe strongly in democracy and in honoring the will of the people. While this bill honors the will of the majority of people voting for the office of President of the United States across the country, it disregards the will of a majority of Californians.
I appreciate the intent of this measure to make California more relevant in the presidential campaign, but I cannot support doing it by giving all our electoral votes to the candidate that a majority of Californians did not support.
This is counter to the tradition of our great nation which honor states rights and the unique pride and identity of each state.
Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I like your plan. It makes sense to me.
Why would we bother to vote? Carol Migden is truly insane - she’s the moron who ran traffic off the road and was finally run down and arrested by the CHP, going east on I-80 past Fairfield, while claiming she was trying to get to Marin and that she was off her meds. She’s off her meds, all right.
That is correct.For the California plan to be legal,the Constitution would need an amendment allowing it to do so.Otherwise, whoever won the state gets its electoral votes(now the electors are not bound to vote for who they are pledged to vote for,but that’s another story....)
Absolutely nothing.
The Rats like this "elect by mob" idea because, after all, they are head of the mob.
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