Attorney General Jerry Brown successfully altered the title of Proposition 8 on the November ballot. Initially, Brown had labeled the initiative to declare marriage only between a man and a woman: Limit on Marriage. After the California Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriages Brown changed the label to: Eliminates Right of Same Sex Couples to Marry. He then beat back a court challenge by the initiative’s proponents and kept the new title in place.
Emboldened by this blessing from the Court, the AG considered looking at some of the other propositions so as to reveal a better understanding of these initiatives.
Here, reveled for the first time, is a list of the old ballot labels and the AG’s new improved ballot monikers.
Proposition 1. Safe, reliable, high-speed passenger train bond act for the 21st century
New Ballot Label: Safe? Reliable? High Speed passenger train bond act, hopefully to be finished in the 21st century
Proposition 2. Standards for confining farm animals
New Ballot Label: Can’t fly the coop act
Proposition 4. Waiting period and parental notification before termination of minor’s pregnancy
New Ballot Label: Two Time Failed Measure, Give It Up Already. Constitutional Amendment
Proposition 6. Police and law enforcement funding. Criminal Penalties and Laws.
New Ballot Label: NOT Enough Police and Law Enforcement Funding
Proposition 9. Criminal Justice System. Victim’s Rights. Parole
New Ballot Label: Criminal Justice System. Eliminates Rights for criminals.
Proposition 10. Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Bonds
New Ballot Label: Buy a Hybrid Car, Get a Government Check
Proposition 11. Redistricting
New Ballot Label: Republican Power Grab. Constitutional Amendment