Overthrow California

[Paladin]

It is time for us to take back our government , and I have a plan to do this a grassroots plan what I propose Is to put on the ballot a proposition . . . .

Has it been 3 months already?

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?p=2030215#post2030215

[Bob Ragen]

We have a system in place to make changes, it's called voting. If the majority of Californians would stop being so self centered and vote out the far left wing and right wing politicians things would change. Until then Boxer, Pelosi and all the others, Dems & Reps, will remain where they are and this state will continue to be regulated into the ground. The systems is not broken, the people are.

[Bob Ragen]

Let me add that not only our state regulators but our federal regulators must also be removed from office, hence Pelosis name. We need a clean sweep of all the government officials who say they represent this state and the will of its people but have continuosly shown otherwise.

Rant over!

[theshoer]

Like our Votes count.

[Tier One Arms]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[Swiss]

Gun control aside, I'm pretty damn proud of the strides the Golden State makes in relation to the rest of the nation. Even if it were feasible to enact such a law, I'd be very much against it.

[Steve O]

First thing first!

[Librarian]

I finally found a good source for the process of initiatives in California.

Center for Governmental Studies; in the publication page linked here, read at least Chapter 4. Chapters 7 and 8 are also useful.

But the summary, disappointing as it may be, is brutally short:

The era of the volunteer-run initiative is over in California...

and has been since 1982, the last time a volunteer initiative made it to the ballot.

Further, it says

The median cost for qualifying an initiative ranged from slightly under $2 million to just
over $3 million from 2000 through 2006.

... the vast majority of the 39 campaigns for balloted initiatives between 2000 and 2006 spent more than $1 million on qualification, and 16 spent over $2 million.87

The fact that ballot access can be so reliably measured in terms of dollars rather than degree of public concern clearly runs counter to the original intent of the initiative process. ... Ballot qualification in California today is an enormous task requiring the application of expensive campaign technology, a large infusion of funds, and the employment of one or more professional companies from an ever-expanding initiative industry. Money, rather than breadth or intensity of popular support, has become the primary threshold for determining ballot qualification.