News Source: Daily Breeze
| about 1 month ago
The chief justice of the California Supreme Court criticized the state's reliance on the referendum process Saturday, saying it has "rendered our state government dysfunctional." The use of referenda to change state laws and the constitution hampers...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 month ago
George, in a speech before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, says the ease by which Californians can make new laws at the ballot box has "rendered our state government dysfunctional." George, who spoke Saturday in Cambridge, Mass., used the...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
In a rare public rebuke of state government and polices delivered by a sitting judge, the chief justice of the California Supreme Court scathingly criticized the state’s reliance on the referendum process, arguing that it has “rendered our state...
News Source: Sacramento Bee
| about 1 month ago
George laments the ease with which a ballot initiative can be used to amend the California Constitution and says the system has created a "dysfunctional state government." George notes in prepared remarks to be delivered in Cambridge, Mass., that the...