Opinion: Hoarse race: California voters are about to lose their voice
“Frank” is Frank Roesch, an Alameda County judge who, on August 20, declared that the votes of nearly 10 million Californians in a 2020 initiative campaign weren’t going to count. His ruling will be tested in a California appeals court.
Though aimed directly at subduing rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft, the bill left scars everywhere freelancers work – in the music industry, construction, graphic design, photography, translation and entertainment services. Independent contractors begged for relief, and some powerful incumbent business interests — like newspapers —protested and won immediate waivers. More than most, lawmakers understand Mark Twain’s adage, “Never get into a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel.
In doing so, Roesch bought the union’s two arguments — first, that the initiative violated a technical provision in the drafting of a ballot measure, the “single-subject” rule. But Roesch also bought the union’s far more menacing assertion: that Californians cannot have a direct say on policy matters over which the state legislature has declared itself sovereign. One of those policy matters, Roesch concludes, is anything affecting workers’ compensation.
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