In late deals with Gov. Newsom and legislative leaders, proponents are pulling measures off the November California ballot.
Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.Voters cast their ballots on Super Tuesday at City Hall in San Francisco on March 5, 2024. Photo by Juliana Yamada for CalMatters.In late deals with Gov. Newsom and legislative leaders, proponents are pulling measures off the Nov. 5 ballot. But the Legislature may add others by next week.
Over the past week, the governor’s office and lawmakers announced five deals with the proponents of qualified ballot measures to remove them in exchange for legislative action — on employer liability, pandemic preparedness, children’s health care, high school finance classes and oil drilling. That’s more than in any previous election.
But there are a range of financial and political considerations for negotiating proposals off the ballot: How an initiative, which lawmakers have little power to amend, might affect the state budget; whether interest groups truly want to spend the millions necessary to wage a fierce campaign battle; and even what the most controversial proposals might mean for other races across the state.
Some interest groups have figured out how to exploit the rules to their advantage, qualifying sweeping initiatives as leverage to win more modest changes — as in 2018, when soda companies spent millions to place a major anti-tax proposal on the ballot, then. The most for any single election was three in 2018, when initiatives related to consumer data privacy and lead paint remediation were also withdrawn following legislative compromises.
As many as four more measures could be added to the ballot next week as well, if legislators can work through contentious debates that are taking place behind the scenes.
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