Congratulations to City Councilwoman Marti Emerald who lives to tax another day!
Today the three anti-business initiatives that were going to be placed on the November ballot by the union lackeys on the Council to confuse voters about which proposition to support were withdrawn. The initiatives spokesperson said they will “go to voters directly” if they want the initiatives placed on the ballot. Granted they can be resubmitted, passed through the Rules committee, and voted on by the full Council in the next 45 or so days, but doing that would open the measures and their sponsors up to immense criticism.
If you say your doing something for the voters and not to sabotage another initiative you can’t bluff/withdraw and only carry through if/when the MC measure qualifies. Even if the measures were resubmitted the vulnerable members of the Council who would have been forced to support them the first time around might not be able to do so a second clearly spiteful time. So most likely the measures are dead.
The fate of the MC proposition remains in limbo. I said I thought the unions would withdraw their measures if they thought MC wouldn’t qualify; they withdrew so I take it they do not thing MC will qualify.
The Managed Competition campaign has until Friday to come up with the $175,000 the San Diego City Clerk says it will cost the ROV to hand-count the MC signatures. It seems DeMaio has put the MC Campaign Briefing and Wine Reception on hiatus, likely to focus on getting the hand-count handled.
It looks like a dark hour for MC right now, but I still believe that there are least the necessary 97,000 valid signatures in the 134,000 signatures submitted. Perhaps, umm, this was the intention of the MC campaign all along, to get the 3 “confuse & divide” measures off and/or force a low turnout special, maybe?