Walters: California Democrats emulate Ohio GOP on tax limit ballot measure
Chess move could undercut pending Republican effort to restrict new taxes.
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Chess move could undercut pending Republican effort to restrict new taxes.
OPINION- A couple of weeks ago, Ohio voters rejected a constitutional amendment, proposed by Republican legislators, that would have raised the vote requirement for passing constitutional amendments from a simple majority to 60%.
OP/ED- Ever since California’s first state constitution in 1849, constitutional amendments have required a majority vote of the electorate.
It’s exactly what Republicans tried to do in Ohio – something that the president of the United States denounced as a “blatant attempt to weaken voters’ voices.”
A chess move by California Capitol leadership last week could undercut a pending ballot measure seeking to restrict new taxes.