You CAN'T Fight City Hall
Well, give Valley activist hero David Hernandez credit. He heroically waged the fight against Measure R -- the dishonest 2006 L.A. city ballot measure that allows City Council members to stay in office for an extra term. He did it on a shoe-string budget, fighting the full force of the city establishment. But today his effort failed. A judge has ruled that the measure did not violate the state constitution's requirement that an an initiative be limited to just one subject because ... Measure R wasn't an initiative.
Yes, the people voted on it, and yes, it had the force of law. But no, according to the judge, it wasn't an initiative. Go figure.
Another win for L.A.'s self-serving ruling class.
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Posted by: Robyn Tevere | July 17, 2007 2:47 PM
There is not too much to figure. Proposition R had the force of Law and it was voted in by the people and of course a judge-whose name was not mentioned- voted against and killed it. That's the reason less and less people bother to vote. I don't want to be malicious, but it seems the the unknown judge is in someone's deep pocket.
Posted by: Dante F. Rochetti | July 18, 2007 8:54 AM