Proposition 42 Passed, So Now What?
Tuesday’s statewide primary election yielded some interesting results: perhaps record low voter turnout, a new influx of campaign cash in the form of independent expenditures for state legislative races, and some real nail-biter results, with a number of races around the state too close to call. Perhaps the least surprising news of the night: Proposition 42 passed handily. That’s the constitutional amendment to enshrine the provisions of the Open Meetings Act and the Public Records Act in the state constitution and exempting them from the reimbursable mandate provisions,.
(At about 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, a local television news station began reporting that Propositions 41 and 42 were failing, and not by any small margin. I nearly choked on my Election Night ice cream. Sure enough, the Twitterverse erupted and by the next commercial break, the vote counts were reversed and all was right with the world. Whew.)