Signing away homes and property
The big tax-and-spenders who hate California’s Proposition 13 that we, including Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann, worked so hard to achieve have figured out a way to undo everything that we have achieved to limit our property taxes and our two-thirds majority safety net needed to raise our taxes!
Because, we have limited what the legislature and a simple majority of voters can do to us, they have come up with the idea of having a “California Constitutional Convention,” a statewide constitutional convention that would rewrite our state’s constitution !
By doing this, their delegates will be able to throw out any and all articles or amendments that they want to remove, such as Proposition 13 and the two-thirds rule that we have enjoyed for all of these years!
It has also been suggested that “We, the People,” (voters) no longer elect our state treasurer or our state’s controller by having these financial officers appointed instead of being elected!
Another bad idea is to have a unicameral legislature instead of continuing with our bicameral one. With only one house, bad bills can fly through much faster and with less opposition!
It is also unclear just how far this Constitutional Convention can go! What else can some very radical and uncontrolled delegates (who can change our state government) do to us?
Therefore, the United Organization of Taxpayers recommends that all of our members and friends refuse to sign any initiative that calls for a constitutional convention!
It will be a lot cheaper and easier to have such an initiative fail to qualify on our ballot than to fight it after it gets on the ballot and then have to organize and finance an expensive campaign to defeat it!
ELLIOTT GRAHAM, VICE PRESIDENT
United Organization of Taxpayers, Inc.
Glendale, California