Lawsuit against "Top Two" law

Our newly elected LPSF secretary, Richard Winger, is the publisher of Ballot Access News (http://ballot-access.org/), and is currently involved with an effort to file a lawsuit to overturn California’s anti-democratic “Top Two” law.

Adopted in 2010 by voters at the behest of then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, then-lieutenant governor Abel Maldonado and others in an effort to tilt the playing field in favor of moderate/centrist politicians like themselves, the law has had a profoundly exclusionary impact on Libertarians and other alternative parties. Our candidates, who used to regularly appear on general election ballots in November, when more people are voting and paying attention to elections, now almost never appear on November ballots in Calfornia. By contrast, many general election races in areas of the state dominated by one establishment party or the other routinely feature either two Democrats, or two Republicans, giving voters very little in the way of real choice.

This webpage of the Los Angeles county Green Party gives a good overview of a presentation by Richard and others on the issue:

https://losangeles.cagreens.org/gpca/lawsuit-challenge-top-two

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))
Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
(415) 573-7997

Please share with your Social Circles. One Nextdoor neighborhood post can
reach over 18k viewers:

FiXProp19 Special Guest Senator Niello Tonight (Thursday) at 7PM

Please attend this evening at 7PM to listen to Co-Author of SCA4 Senator
Roger Niello.

We have talked about how we need to have the right people elected to the
Assembly and Senate and on the right commissions. In addition to Senator
Niello’s current Senate position he was on the California State Assembly
serving on the following commissions for 6 years: Transportation Committee,
Banking and Finance Committee, Public Employees, Retirement and Social
Security Committee; Business, Professions and Consumer Protection
Committee, Insurance Committee, Budget Committee, Joint Legislative Audit
Committee, Joint Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security, and
the Select Committee on Foster Care. Shouldn’t we know how the inside works?

He has been a family run business owner and after Assembly was President
and CEO of the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce. Senator Niello was
elected to represent Placer and Sacramento counties in the State Senate in
2022. He understands business. 2020 Proposition 19 affects businesses…
not just family homes. Some of you have helped us share our most recent
post about a hair salon having to increase everything from rent on the
business, to station rents to haircuts when a landlord or parent dies.
Thank you for continuing to grow awareness We have talked about getting to
Chambers of Commerce to reach small business owners and hopefully getting
them to help or donate to our cause as they too will be impacted through
this SLOW Drip life impacting legislation.

Senator Niello is NOT a career politician and has learned experience. Let
us find out from him how we can make our Grassroots effort more effective.
Did you know for Prop5 to take a Dive HJTA only spent $1.3 Million? For $20
Billion Reasons to remove the largest $20 Billion Unaffordable Housing Bond
from the Ballot we spent very little… It takes effort from people like
us. We can FiXProp19 with everyone’s help.

Looking forward to “seeing” you all on the Zoom tonight at 7PM:

Meeting ID: 872 3107 6039

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For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, $20 Billion Reasons will
become SHIFT Bay Area and will have its first “Official” meeting to watch
the Region this Saturday at 10am. For those of you interested in watching
your region as there are 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) let
me know as we are looking to grow awareness Regionally across California.
Please join your local taxpayers association or HJTA if you can. If you
need contacts, reach out. The stronger and more educated we are, the more
we can take back Government for and by the People. It shouldn’t be about
Party… just policy.

Gina
M: 628-2443-1808

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 10:41 PM Starchild sfdreamer@earthlink.net wrote:

Our newly elected LPSF secretary, Richard Winger, is the publisher of
Ballot Access News (http://ballot-access.org/), and is currently involved
with an effort to file a lawsuit to overturn California’s anti-democratic
“Top Two” law.

Adopted in 2010 by voters at the behest of then-governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, then-lieutenant governor Abel Maldonado and others in an
effort to tilt the playing field in favor of moderate/centrist politicians
like themselves, the law has had a profoundly exclusionary impact on
Libertarians and other alternative parties. Our candidates, who used to
regularly appear on general election ballots in November, when more people
are voting and paying attention to elections, now almost never appear on
November ballots in Calfornia. By contrast, many general election races in
areas of the state dominated by one establishment party or the other
routinely feature either two Democrats, or two Republicans, giving voters
very little in the way of real choice.

This webpage of the Los Angeles county Green Party gives a good overview
of a presentation by Richard and others on the issue:

Presentation: Lawsuit challenging Top Two Law | Green Party of Los Angeles County
https://losangeles.cagreens.org/gpca/lawsuit-challenge-top-two

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))
Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
(415) 573-7997

Flyer attached.

···

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024, 7:03 AM Gina Tse-Louie informed168@gmail.com wrote:

Please share with your Social Circles. One Nextdoor neighborhood post can
reach over 18k viewers:

FiXProp19 Special Guest Senator Niello Tonight (Thursday) at 7PM

Please attend this evening at 7PM to listen to Co-Author of SCA4 Senator
Roger Niello.

We have talked about how we need to have the right people elected to the
Assembly and Senate and on the right commissions. In addition to Senator
Niello’s current Senate position he was on the California State Assembly
serving on the following commissions for 6 years: Transportation Committee,
Banking and Finance Committee, Public Employees, Retirement and Social
Security Committee; Business, Professions and Consumer Protection
Committee, Insurance Committee, Budget Committee, Joint Legislative Audit
Committee, Joint Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security, and
the Select Committee on Foster Care. Shouldn’t we know how the inside works?

He has been a family run business owner and after Assembly was President
and CEO of the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce. Senator Niello was
elected to represent Placer and Sacramento counties in the State Senate in
2022. He understands business. 2020 Proposition 19 affects businesses…
not just family homes. Some of you have helped us share our most recent
post about a hair salon having to increase everything from rent on the
business, to station rents to haircuts when a landlord or parent dies.
Thank you for continuing to grow awareness We have talked about getting to
Chambers of Commerce to reach small business owners and hopefully getting
them to help or donate to our cause as they too will be impacted through
this SLOW Drip life impacting legislation.

Senator Niello is NOT a career politician and has learned experience. Let
us find out from him how we can make our Grassroots effort more effective.
Did you know for Prop5 to take a Dive HJTA only spent $1.3 Million? For $20
Billion Reasons to remove the largest $20 Billion Unaffordable Housing Bond
from the Ballot we spent very little… It takes effort from people like
us. We can FiXProp19 with everyone’s help.

Looking forward to “seeing” you all on the Zoom tonight at 7PM:

Launch Meeting - Zoom

Meeting ID: 872 3107 6039


One tap mobile

+16699006833,87231076039# US (San Jose)

+16694449171,87231076039# US


For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, $20 Billion Reasons will
become SHIFT Bay Area and will have its first “Official” meeting to watch
the Region this Saturday at 10am. For those of you interested in watching
your region as there are 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) let
me know as we are looking to grow awareness Regionally across California.
Please join your local taxpayers association or HJTA if you can. If you
need contacts, reach out. The stronger and more educated we are, the more
we can take back Government for and by the People. It shouldn’t be about
Party… just policy.

Gina
M: 628-2443-1808

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 10:41 PM Starchild sfdreamer@earthlink.net wrote:

Our newly elected LPSF secretary, Richard Winger, is the publisher of
Ballot Access News (http://ballot-access.org/), and is currently
involved with an effort to file a lawsuit to overturn California’s
anti-democratic “Top Two” law.

Adopted in 2010 by voters at the behest of then-governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger, then-lieutenant governor Abel Maldonado and others in an
effort to tilt the playing field in favor of moderate/centrist politicians
like themselves, the law has had a profoundly exclusionary impact on
Libertarians and other alternative parties. Our candidates, who used to
regularly appear on general election ballots in November, when more people
are voting and paying attention to elections, now almost never appear on
November ballots in Calfornia. By contrast, many general election races in
areas of the state dominated by one establishment party or the other
routinely feature either two Democrats, or two Republicans, giving voters
very little in the way of real choice.

This webpage of the Los Angeles county Green Party gives a good overview
of a presentation by Richard and others on the issue:

Presentation: Lawsuit challenging Top Two Law | Green Party of Los Angeles County
https://losangeles.cagreens.org/gpca/lawsuit-challenge-top-two

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))
Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
(415) 573-7997

(attachments)

FYI, an online call tonight on fighting to reform Prop. 19 and protect Californians from higher taxes.

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Gina Tse-Louie informed168@gmail.com
Subject: FiXProp19 Special Guest Senator Niello Tonight at 7pm
Date: November 21, 2024 at 7:03:08 AM PST
To: Starchild sfdreamer@earthlink.net
Cc: LPSF Activists List lpsf-activists@forum.lpsf.org

Please share with your Social Circles. One Nextdoor neighborhood post can reach over 18k viewers:

FiXProp19 Special Guest Senator Niello Tonight (Thursday) at 7PM

Please attend this evening at 7PM to listen to Co-Author of SCA4 Senator Roger Niello.

We have talked about how we need to have the right people elected to the Assembly and Senate and on the right commissions. In addition to Senator Niello’s current Senate position he was on the California State Assembly serving on the following commissions for 6 years: Transportation Committee, Banking and Finance Committee, Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee; Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee, Insurance Committee, Budget Committee, Joint Legislative Audit Committee, Joint Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security, and the Select Committee on Foster Care. Shouldn’t we know how the inside works?

He has been a family run business owner and after Assembly was President and CEO of the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce. Senator Niello was elected to represent Placer and Sacramento counties in the State Senate in 2022. He understands business. 2020 Proposition 19 affects businesses… not just family homes. Some of you have helped us share our most recent post about a hair salon having to increase everything from rent on the business, to station rents to haircuts when a landlord or parent dies. Thank you for continuing to grow awareness We have talked about getting to Chambers of Commerce to reach small business owners and hopefully getting them to help or donate to our cause as they too will be impacted through this SLOW Drip life impacting legislation.

Senator Niello is NOT a career politician and has learned experience. Let us find out from him how we can make our Grassroots effort more effective. Did you know for Prop5 to take a Dive HJTA only spent $1.3 Million? For $20 Billion Reasons to remove the largest $20 Billion Unaffordable Housing Bond from the Ballot we spent very little… It takes effort from people like us. We can FiXProp19 with everyone’s help.

Looking forward to “seeing” you all on the Zoom tonight at 7PM:

Launch Meeting - Zoom

Meeting ID: 872 3107 6039


One tap mobile

+16699006833,87231076039# US (San Jose)

+16694449171,87231076039# US


For those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area, $20 Billion Reasons will become SHIFT Bay Area and will have its first “Official” meeting to watch the Region this Saturday at 10am. For those of you interested in watching your region as there are 18 Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) let me know as we are looking to grow awareness Regionally across California. Please join your local taxpayers association or HJTA if you can. If you need contacts, reach out. The stronger and more educated we are, the more we can take back Government for and by the People. It shouldn’t be about Party… just policy.

Gina
M: 628-2443-1808

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 10:41 PM Starchild <sfdreamer@earthlink.net mailto:sfdreamer@earthlink.net> wrote:

Our newly elected LPSF secretary, Richard Winger, is the publisher of Ballot Access News (http://ballot-access.org/), and is currently involved with an effort to file a lawsuit to overturn California’s anti-democratic “Top Two” law.

Adopted in 2010 by voters at the behest of then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, then-lieutenant governor Abel Maldonado and others in an effort to tilt the playing field in favor of moderate/centrist politicians like themselves, the law has had a profoundly exclusionary impact on Libertarians and other alternative parties. Our candidates, who used to regularly appear on general election ballots in November, when more people are voting and paying attention to elections, now almost never appear on November ballots in Calfornia. By contrast, many general election races in areas of the state dominated by one establishment party or the other routinely feature either two Democrats, or two Republicans, giving voters very little in the way of real choice.

This webpage of the Los Angeles county Green Party gives a good overview of a presentation by Richard and others on the issue:

Presentation: Lawsuit challenging Top Two Law | Green Party of Los Angeles County

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))
Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco
(415) 573-7997

Thank you!

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2024, 7:40 AM Starchild via LPSF Forum < noreply@forum.lpsf.org> wrote:

Starchild https://forum.lpsf.org/u/starchild
November 21

FYI, an online call tonight on fighting to reform Prop. 19 and protect
Californians from higher taxes.

Love & Liberty,

((( starchild )))
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