Originally Posted By mawnck ... and wait until you hear why! A constitutional convention would be required to ditch all the initiatives that have gummed up the state's budget process, and to stop new ones from being enacted. A constitutional convention requiures, you guessed it, an initiative. A C. C. initiative requires 694,354 signatures to get on the ballot. Which requires one to hire a signature-getting company. Which would be put out of business by such a convention. >>In response to the layers of initiatives that have made California government increasingly dysfunctional, the Bay Area Council business group announced a plan last year to put an initiative on the ballot to hold a new constitutional convention. But two weeks ago, that so-called Reform California campaign ran out of money. One reason why: Kimball's firm and others fear such a convention might change the initiative business and warned their contractors against carrying the petitions. Very few of the signature-gatherers at the shopping malls across California are volunteers. Nearly all are contractors, such as Birch, who work for firms hired by the states most powerful political players - many of whom like the system as it is.<< <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599196814100" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/0...96814100</a> We are SO screwed.
