Comments on: Dueling plastic bag propositions 65 and 67: What happens if both pass? https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/2016/09/09/dueling-plastic-bag-propositions-65-67-happens-pass/ Almost All the News — Part of the Time Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:04:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Becky Clark https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/2016/09/09/dueling-plastic-bag-propositions-65-67-happens-pass/#comment-84773 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:04:24 +0000 http://idyllwildtowncrier.com/?p=46897#comment-84773 The gentleman wrote: “It’s totally wrong that if 65 gets more votes than 67 it wins. That’s not how 65 is written. Ask any election lawyer.”

The gentleman misreads Marshall Smith’s story. Smith did not write that if 65 gets more votes than 67 “it wins.” He wrote that Prop 67 must pass in order for Prop 65 to have any effect at all. He then wrote: “If both pass, then for Prop 65 to succeed in diverting grocer fees to a new environmental fund, it would have to receive more total votes than Prop 67.”

That is completely in accord with the Legislative Analyst’s statement at
http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Proposition?number=65&year=2016
(See the section under “Fiscal Effects.”)

Jack Clark
general counsel
Idyllwild Town Crier

]]> By: Steven https://idyllwildtowncrier.com/2016/09/09/dueling-plastic-bag-propositions-65-67-happens-pass/#comment-84047 Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:32:30 +0000 http://idyllwildtowncrier.com/?p=46897#comment-84047 It’s totally wrong that if 65 gets more votes than 67 it wins. That’s not how 65 is written. Ask any election lawyer.

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