The fast food and oil industries are only the latest to seek referendums to stop, or delay, laws passed by the state Legislature. The return on investment can be huge — so much money that some are calling for changing the referendum rules in California.
What might explain what she describes as a “slight uptick?” Moylan points to the increasingly Democratic dominance in Sacramento, with a majority of lawmakers now more willing to slap legislative targets on large, well-resourced industries. Those industries may be “seeing this as the only option now, whereas they were having more success in prior decades sorting and killing bills in the legislative process,” she said.
Though the state constitution doesn’t explicitly say that a referendum, once qualified, puts the underlying law on hold, the text has been“It was a good investment on their part. “They were using the referendum to delay the inevitable.”Now some advocates who have grown tired of this electoral maneuver are calling for change., which sponsored the fast food law, advocates said they want the state to require proof of “grassroots support” before qualifying a referendum.
Hill, the former state senator, said “it is easy — and too easy — to file a referendum by a corporation with paid signature gatherers…They have nothing to lose and everything to gain by doing this.” “I do think that there needs to be reform in the referendum space,” he added, “and I would hope that the Legislature or a commission or something could look at it.”
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